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Today, swimmers in middle age are capable of turning in their fastest times ever. Masters competitions usually begin at the age of 40. Depending on the sport, the ranks build in numbers until age 60 when sickness, injuries and and lethargy start to weed people out. He took samples of muscle tissue before and after six months of resistance training and found that the old muscles had genetic characteristics similar to the muscles of the younger population.