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You trip on the sidewalk. In that split second, your survival doesn’t depend on how much you can bench press; it depends on how fast you can grab the handrail or catch yourself.
That speed, called muscle power, declines about two decades earlier than muscle strength does. The problem is that most of us stop training for it in early adulthood.
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