Rob shocked fans when he shared a shirtless photo alongside his son, revealing the effects of his exercise routine. However, while he is committed to remaining fit and active, Rob says he has had to adapt his workouts as he’s got older. “What has changed is I have to force myself to take recovery days, because as you get older, the recovery is crucial and that kills me.
“You also have to think about injury, because you don’t come back so quickly from injury [at my age]. Those are things you don’t think about when you’re in your 20s, 30s, 40s.”
According to Charlie Cox, longevity doctor and nutrition expert at Reborne, staying committed to fitness could be a key reason why Rob is still so youthful.
“Exercise is genuinely one of the most powerful interventions we have in longevity medicine, and the evidence for this is now overwhelming. Regular physical training attenuates sarcopenia, the age-related loss of muscle mass that begins in our thirties and accelerates significantly after fifty. It preserves VO₂ max, which is one of our strongest independent predictors of all-cause mortality,” Dr Cox told HELLO!.
“It reduces systemic inflammation, improves insulin sensitivity, and supports cardiovascular and cognitive health simultaneously. When I look at someone like Rob Lowe at 62, what I’m seeing clinically is likely a preservation of lean muscle mass, good metabolic health, and low inflammatory burden, all of which are direct downstream effects of consistent training over decades.
“No pharmaceutical intervention comes close to replicating what sustained exercise does across that many biological systems at once.”
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