Sun, Sep-20-15, 18:10
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Doing My Best
Posts: 4,924
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Plan: LC/CancerRecovery
Stats: 170/135/130
BF:24%
Progress: 88%
Location: Nevada Desert, USA
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Originally Posted by Desert Mo
I agree. After a certain age (don't know which one) the skin doesn't snap back with weight loss. Skin gets flabby with wt loss, but most of the areas where there's flab there's also muscle. I read somewhere that after age 50, people lose a certain % of muscle tissue regularly, so if the sort of exercise one is doing isn't working to develop some muscle tone in thighs & upper arms & (yes) the abs, then it's gonna be droop city by the time you're my age (70). Doesn't mean there won't still be some flabbiness, just less of it than there'd be without persistent exercise of the sort that develops muscle tone. ~~ mo
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Mo,
As you know, I'm your age. The strange thing is that the skin on my body is still resilient with no looseness or folds. It's just the arms that worry me, and not just what I call my "wing flaps." Now the skin between the elbow and the wrist looks sort of like drifting sand. I definitely have to go back to the gym and spend some time growing muscles under there. |