A revolution is taking place in our understanding of the aging process.
Most people take it for granted that aging means an inevitable physical decline.
That's just the way it is, gerontologists have maintained. Well, it's now becoming increasingly clear that it doesn't have to be that way. I've mentioned before Dr Michael Pollock's study of 24 healthy, active men who continued to train after the normal competitive period. At the beginning of the study in 1971, all were 40 and considered champion Master athletes, mostly runners. Ten years later, when Pollock tested the men again, he found that those who had continued to train hard showed much less deterioration from aging.