02/09/2026
💪Ageing With Resilience: Why Getting Older Doesn’t Have to Mean Getting Weaker 💪
There is a strange message we seem to absorb as we get older. A sore knee appears and we blame our age. We feel stiffer getting out of bed and decide this must simply be what happens now. We notice that recovery takes a little longer than it used to and quietly start lowering our expectations of what our bodies should be capable of.
But ageing and decline are not the same thing.
Our bodies certainly change as we get older, and pretending otherwise isn’t particularly helpful. Muscle mass, bone density, balance and recovery can all be affected by age. What matters enormously, though, is what we do with the body we have now.
For women, this conversation becomes particularly important during perimenopause and menopause. Changing hormone levels can affect sleep, energy, mood, muscle mass and the way we recover from exercise. Oestrogen also plays an important role in maintaining bone strength, and as levels fall around menopause, bone loss can accelerate. This is one of the reasons women become more vulnerable to osteoporosis as they get older.
Osteoporosis often gets talked about as though it is something to worry about when we are elderly. Looking after our bones needs to begin much earlier.
And this is where strength becomes so important.
Resistance exercise, whether that means lifting weights, using resistance bands or working against your own bodyweight, helps maintain muscle and supports bone health. Weight bearing movement such as walking, dancing and climbing stairs also gives our skeleton the stimulation it needs. The NHS specifically recommends weight bearing and resistance exercise as important ways to maintain bone density and help prevent osteoporosis.
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