A commonly accepted view amongst those over 50 is that it is too
late for them to benefit from weight training.
Nothing could be further from the truth !
Dr Ron Explains.....
‘YOU ARE NEVER TOO OLD TO FEEL YOUNG’
Considerable evidence now shows that although muscle growth may be
most dramatic for trainees in their twenties and thirties, the
Matrix Health, Fitness and Longevity Program can provide astonishing
gains in strength, endurance and toning to those people well outside these age parameters.
Clinical trials have convincingly demonstrated that Matrix training
can effectively be used by people of all ages, ranging from children as young as 7 years old to mature adults even
in their 80’s.
Senior citizen mature trainees, in particular, have made amazing
improvements in strength, muscle tone, bone den density, endurance, and even balance.
Matrix Training has also proven to be an extraordinarily effective
and easy way of promoting general cardiovascular fitness for senior citizens.
It would be unrealistic of course to assume that the prospect for a
vital and healthy life are not effected by certain aspects of the
ageing process.In our later years, for example, it
is well-known that lean muscle mass tends to decrease while body fat levels increase.
Nonetheless, the more sedentary we are at any age, young or old, the less fit and healthy we inevitably become.
Along
with a loss in skin elasticity, ageing is generally associated with
a decline in strength, lung capacity, along with memory function co-
ordination, and balance.
There is also a loss in testosterone production for both male and
females, which in turn contributes to the loss of
muscular development in men and general body tone in women.
Skeletal disorders such as osteoarthritis also figure
prominently with age, as does the deteriation of joints and tendons.
Despite what might seem to be a depressing picture of the ageing
process, Matrix Training can do much not only to slow the ageing process, but to compensate for the degeneration
associated with it.
The first step in retarding the ageing process is to overcome the
sedentariness which so adversely affects the body’s state of general health. In this regard exercise has an enormously
important role to play in reversing the ageing process.
Testimonials show that the Matrix System can help you feel and look
significantly younger, be possessed of greater vitality and achieve a significant level of fitness.
Have a read for yourself of some of the testimonials from Matrix
trainees drawn from our category of mature adults. (See
Testimonial for Mr P. Prichard).
There is also a deeper philosophical issue associated with ageing.
Part of the problem of ageing is that we live in a society which in
essence has come to equate the ageing process with the process of growing old and weak. Moreover, we live in a
society that celebrates youthfulness as a measure of years, often unfairly and
gratuitously at the expense of
those persons who no longer possess it.
Given such presumptions, society creates the impression that old
people retire because they are worn out or useless.
Because
our identity and value in this culture is largely defined by our
work, we are encouraged upon retirement to take up a hobby to give our lives back at least some of the meaning society thinks it has necessarily lost, even to
ourselves.The tragedy is that many old and young people
alike succumb to believing this mythology, and when this happens, they end up transforming such beliefs into self-fulfilling prophecies, needlessly robbing others and in due course, themselves, of the vital and youthful lives they
might otherwise have had.
The Matrix Health, Fitness and Longevity Program takes a very
different attitude to the process of growing old.
There is little point in taking refuge in fanciful notions of
endless youth or in denying the ageing processes which to some extent generally define the human organism.
Nevertheless, it is of critical importance to reshape our beliefs
and to act in ways which provide the body every possible opportunity
to remain healthy, fit and youthful. It is imperative that you set
yourself realistic goals and that you set out without delay to
achieve them systematically.
Never doubt that it is possible to be both advanced in years but
ever youthful in spirit. There is no doubt, for example that
exercise and a healthy diet can lower your blood pressure naturally.
·The
Matrix Longevity Program has helped a number of people to lower both
their systolic and diastolic blood pressure significantly in only 12 weeks and without
drug therapy!
The primary medical approach to ageing has been to seek chemical or
surgical ‘cures’ for ageing problems. Although
medical science has made significant strides forward in this area,
we need to keep mindful that ‘premature’ ageing in particular is in many cases caused primary by
poor lifestyle.
While I have no wish to suggest that the medical approach to ageing
is not without its merits. I believe strongly that medicine should
not be used merely as a prophylactic to compensate for unhealthy
living.
Otherwise, we inadvertently create apathy towards encouraging
healthy lifestyle behaviours which may in themselves serve to retard the ageing process, as I know they have in my own
and many other cases. (see photos of Professor Laura).
For
the most part we are in any case seduced by the idea that ageing, as
a natural process, is the real problem, and that medical science
will find a way to save us from a lack of exercise, poor diet,
smoking, drugs and other lifestyle behaviours which we know destroy
us.
Heart bypass surgery can provide a lamentable illustration of this,
in the sense that many people who have it simply return to the very
lifestyle of personal degradation which caused their heart problem
in the first place and will inevitably do so again, In such cases we
simply rely upon medical technology to save us from ourselves; We
thus use it as excuses, that is to say, to avoid having to confront
the truth about how we actually should be living, with the
concomitant responsibility of having to do something about the way
we are actually living.
Similarly, the expectation that medical science can provide the
solutions to our health problems may also serve inadvertently to
prompt us to relinquish our own responsibility for health by
encouraging us to leave it to the experts.
By
concentrating on cosmetic surgery and chemically-based remedies, we
can be distracted from the fact that much of what we define as
disease and illness are in essence caused by how we live, by the
lifestyle we lead.
The healthy patient waiting for a new heart is a case in point.
People are encouraged to think that they are healthy until they feel
unwell. This may at first sound plausible, but the fact is that by
the time we feel unwell, and are aware of the symptoms of ill
health, an organ might already be so degenerated that its
degenerative state is all too often irreversible.
We
desperately need to acknowledge that medical science is not
positioned to take complete responsibility for the maintenance of
personal health.
Personal health is a personal matter and it is a responsibility that
needs to be born by the individual in the first instance with
appropriate community support in the second.
Rather than simply looking to medical science and technology to save
us from ourselves, we need to think more about avoiding the
behaviours which destroy us.
Ageing, I wish to suggest, is in part a lifestyle disease, not
merely a natural process of growing old to which we all have to
surrender gracefully.
·The way in which we live will in a large part determine the
way in which we will age and die!
So why not start now to live your life to health and longevity the
Matrix way?
With only one workout each week, coupled with the Matrix diet and
mindset, you can literally change your life at any age.
·You have the capacity to be far more in control of your health
and your longevity than you may realize.
Let me show you how to improve the quality of your life right now,
no matter how old you are or feel.
·You are what you think and you are only as old as you feel.
Let me show you how to feel young again, for you are never too old
to feel young again.
twenties and thirties, the
Matrix Health, Fitness and Longevity Program can provide astonishing
gains in strength, endurance and toning to those people well outside these age parameters. 
It would be unrealistic of course to assume that the prospect for a
vital and healthy life are not effected by certain aspects of the
ageing process.In our later years, for example, it
is well-known that lean muscle mass tends to decrease while body fat levels increase.
Because
our identity and value in this culture is largely defined by our
work, we are encouraged upon retirement to take up a hobby to give our lives back at least some of the meaning society thinks it has necessarily lost, even to
ourselves.The tragedy is that many old and young people
alike succumb to believing this mythology, and when this happens, they end up transforming such beliefs into self-fulfilling prophecies, needlessly robbing others and in due course, themselves, of the vital and youthful lives they
might otherwise have had. 
