These 5 Muscles Make You Look Younger After 60 (& How To Work Them)

Will Harlow, the over-50s specialist physio, explains:

It’s mostly not about size

The reality is that looking younger depends more on posture, movement, and body control than muscle size, and training these key areas consistently improves how you stand, walk, and carry yourself:

• Postural muscles: strengthening your rhomboids, latissimus dorsi, and trapezius improves posture by pulling your shoulder blades backwards and downwards, which reverses rounded shoulders, a forward “buzzard” neck, and a hunched appearance that makes you look older.
  • Dumbbell bent-over row: hinge at your hips with a straight back, keep your knees slightly bent, pull the weights towards your lower stomach while squeezing your shoulder blades together, then lower under control (without moving your torso).
• Glutes: strong glutes improve your walking pattern by restoring hip extension, preventing a short, shuffling gait that looks (and is) slower and more fragile.
  • Weighted glute bridge: lie on your back with a weight on your pelvis, press through your heels to lift your hips, squeeze your glutes at the top, then lower it back down without fully relaxing, to keep tension.
• Shoulders (deltoids): strengthening your deltoids restores shoulder width and positioning, helping your arms sit more open, and your upper body to look more upright and confident.
  • Lateral raise: stand tall with weights at your sides, raise your arms out to shoulder height with control, then lower them slowly, keeping the movement smooth and avoiding shoulder discomfort.
• Thigh muscles: maintaining strength and size in your thighs supports walking, stair climbing, and overall independence while preventing a frail appearance too.
  • Goblet box squat: hold a weight at your chest, hinge forwards with a straight back, lower slowly until you lightly touch a chair, then stand back up while keeping tension in your legs.

For more on all of this plus visual demonstrations, enjoy:

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