Legs

*LEGS* 

If you don’t move your legs for two weeks, your leg strength will decrease for 10 years.

Research from Danish University: "If you don't move your legs for two weeks, your leg strength will decrease for 10 years! Self-confidence after middle age is not in the brain, but in the legs." compiled by RF 8/13

1. As you age, your feet and legs must always remain strong.

2. When you get older, you should not worry about your hair turning gray, skin sagging, or skin wrinkles. Instead, you should take care of your legs.

3. Strong leg muscles are listed as the most important muscles as outlined by the American Journal of Prevention as signs of longevity.

4. If you don’t move your legs within two weeks, your leg strength will decrease for 10 years.

5. Research has found that if people of all ages are inactive for two weeks, their leg muscle strength will weaken by 1/4, which is equivalent to 20 to 30 years of aging.

6. If the leg muscles are weak, even if we perform rehabilitation and exercise, it will take a long time to recover.

7. Regular exercise, such as walking, is very important.

8. The entire body weight is on the legs.

9. The human body bears the weight of the body on its feet. 50% of the human body weight is in bones, and 50% of the bones are in the legs.

10. The largest and strongest joints and bones in the human body are in the legs.

11. Strong bones, muscles and flexible joints form the "Iron Triangle", which carries the most important load on the human body.

12. 70% of your activity energy is burned in your feet.

13. When you were young, your thighs were strong enough to lift a car!

14. Legs and feet are the "movement center" of the body.

15. The legs carry 50% of the human body’s nerves, 50% of the blood vessels, and 50% of the blood flow.

16. A large circulatory network connecting the legs to the body.

17. Those with healthy feet and legs will have smooth blood flow, and those with well-developed leg muscles will have a strong heart.

18. When people grow old, they start from the feet and then move upward.

19. As people get older, the accuracy and speed of the brain’s transmission of instructions to the legs declines and is not as good as that of young people.

20. As people age, bone calcium will be lost sooner or later, so the elderly are prone to fractures.

21. Fractures in the elderly are prone to complications, especially fatal diseases such as cerebral thrombosis.

22. Statistically, 15% of elderly people die within one year after suffering a thigh fracture!

23. It is never too late for a 60-year-old man to exercise his legs.

24. Feet and legs will age over time, but exercising your feet and legs is your lifelong mission.

Take good care of our love ones and ourselves.

Source - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6903448/