"I'm literally crying happy tears"

(Laney is the client who wrote this text. Once a week, she uses our neck machine, a piece of equipment very rarely found in gyms.)

Laney is 56 years old; her bone density improvement came without taking any supplements or medications for osteopenia. Wendy, Carole, Glenn, and Debra had similar improvements in their bone density as a result of strength training 30 minutes once a week at our Austin Personal Training facility. Their results demonstrate that it doesn’t require hours in the gym each week to achieve results. Adequate time is needed for recovery and restructuring to enable ongoing improvement. It also helps to have state-of-the-art equipment (See video below.) with knowledgeable trainers.

Proper strength training can slow, stop, or reverse the progression of bone loss.  We have worked with a many clients with bone density issues over the years. We would like to report that all our clients have increased their bone density, but such is not the case. Results do vary. A lot depends on how much your bone density has deteriorated already. Don’t wait until your condition deteriorates from osteopenia to osteoporosis, as the likelihood of a favorable result diminishes.

What will your health be like a ten years from now if you don’t take preventative measures? Cathy started exercising ten years ago primarily for her bone health. Reflecting back on the ten years she said, “It is the best thing I have done for myself. It’s phenomenal”.

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Avoiding the onset of osteopenia

You can wait until your bone density decreases and then do something about it or you can be preemptive. What follows is the story of one person’s preemptive strategy.

One of the many applications of corticosteroid drugs is to manage the symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS).  One of the side-effects of long-term use of corticosteroids is thinning of the bones (osteopenia). For those taking corticosteroids the Mayo Clinic recommends:

“To protect your bones, do weight-bearing exercise [strength training], avoid alcohol and don't smoke. Taking calcium and vitamin D supplements is another step you can take to help reduce the amount of bone loss caused by corticosteroids.”

Corticosteroids are often prescribed for asthma as well. I take a corticosteroid when my asthma flares.  I start at 60 milligrams and taper down to 10 milligrams.  Imagine taking intravenous doses of 1000 milligrams of corticosteroids for five straight days and doing that four to six times a year.

Glenn, one of the trainers at our Austin Strength Training  facility, has been taking those high doses to manage his MS symptoms. In his words, he has been taking “an ungodly amount of corticosteroids” for 13 years. 

Glenn is 52 years old, and he takes no calcium supplements. He began doing high intensity strength training shortly after being diagnosed with MS – once a week, for 30 minutes for more than a decade.  

The T-score on a bone density test shows how much your bone mass differs from the bone mass of an average healthy 30 year old. For Glenn’s latest bone density test they were expecting a T-score in the range of -1.5 to +1.  A T-score in the range of -1 to +4 is considered normal.  He was surprised to learn his test result was 3.  His bones were remarkably stronger than what they expected.

Another client, Wendy began weekly 30 minute strength training sessions. Twelve months later her bone density had increased 12.4%.

As osteopenia advances to osteoporosis it becomes less reversible. Don't wait until you have osteoporosis; take steps avoid the onset now.  That’s what Glenn and Wendy have been doing.

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