Based in Marietta, Georgia, Robert Windsor, MD, most recently guided National Pain Care, Inc., as chief medical officer and oversaw the expansion of a leading company in its field. In his paper “The Evidence-Based Exercise Prescription,” Robert Windsor, MD, brings focus to the importance of fitness in decreasing incidence of injuries and chronic disease as adults age.
University of Toronto physicians have found that both muscle strength and aerobic power decline by approximately 10 percent each decade during adult life. At the same time, a “progressive exercise prescription” is effective in boosting function by between 10 and 20 percent. This means that proper conditioning can elevate functional capacities in ways that decrease biological age by as much as two decades.
The most significant health results from a consistent fitness routine are experienced among those who started out in the “least fit” category. A major difference in mortality rates is recorded among those in that range and those in the next category upward. By contrast, an Institute for Aerobic Fitness study found only a small difference in likelihood of dying from chronic disease among those in the high fitness category and those in the medium-fitness category.
