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Originally Posted by gacook

As you age (45+), you want to upgrade your protein intake, as well as ensure you are doing strength training (lift heavy things sometimes). This is important because once you hit that age, you're going to start losing muscle pretty rapidly if you aren't being proactive about keeping it. Muscle loss will lead to many other problems.

You don't need to train like a beast...just do some lifting.

A while back I started doing pushups. I do 10-15 at a time. I wanted to focus on my shoulders, so I'm doing them with my feet elevated or with my body hinged at the hips and my feet closer to my hands (think inverted V). I try to do them 6-7 days a week. I do them at least once per day, sometimes 2-3 times. Since I started I have been able to increase the amount that I do. I started able to do 10 with my feet elevated and 8 in the inverted V position. Now I'm up to 15 and 10-12. So just a handful once per day is enough to build strength. Last summer, I must have been playing with the grandsons, and something in my right shoulder was not happy about it. For many months, moving just right (wrong?) would result in a little soreness. I started exercising and the soreness really started to decline. We stopped exercising so I started the pushups to I wouldn't get sore again. Strengthening the shoulders has completely eliminated that soreness.

I'm also doing some core work (not as religiously). I want to get a bar setup so I can work on pull ups too.