Jun 11, 2026 · 38 min · 12 segments
Most athletes focus on muscles. But what about the framework that supports them? In this episode of *Find Your Edge*, Coach Chris Newport and dietetic intern Emily Qiu discuss why bone health…
Chris NewportHost
Emily QiuGuest
I feel like this is a topic where most people are like, oh, this is only for like growing children, right? So tell us about why athletes, no matter what their age, need strong bones.
I feel like we are always talking about our muscles mainly, like how to build muscle, how to maintain it and whatever.
But we need to remember that the framework for all those wonderful muscles are our bones.
And so if we want to generate the most power and speed from our muscles, we need to have strong bones.
But in addition to bones being important for growing, like you said, in the growing children, in our older age, strong bones really help us prevent injuries and detrimental falls and things like that.
Yeah, this is something I didn't learn until a few years back in one of my nutrition classes.
But bone mineral density is basically the indicator of how well your bones are doing and how healthy they are.
And then just there's a natural decline, like a slow decline in As you keep aging, which is why you see a lot of osteoporosis and things like that in your older age, because it kind of like has this shape of it.
It peaks and then it slowly comes down and there's not too much you can do after a certain point to bring it back up.
So the more you build your peak bone mass, bone mineral density, like in your early adulthood, I guess the further it has to decline before hitting the danger zone of osteoporosis, if that makes sense.
I feel like this is a topic where most people are like, oh, this is only for like growing children, right? So tell us about why athletes, no matter what their age, need strong bones.
I feel like we are always talking about our muscles mainly, like how to build muscle, how to maintain it and whatever.
But we need to remember that the framework for all those wonderful muscles are our bones.
And so if we want to generate the most power and speed from our muscles, we need to have strong bones.
But in addition to bones being important for growing, like you said, in the growing children, in our older age, strong bones really help us prevent injuries and detrimental falls and things like that.
Yeah, this is something I didn't learn until a few years back in one of my nutrition classes.
But bone mineral density is basically the indicator of how well your bones are doing and how healthy they are.
And then just there's a natural decline, like a slow decline in As you keep aging, which is why you see a lot of osteoporosis and things like that in your older age, because it kind of like has this shape of it.
It peaks and then it slowly comes down and there's not too much you can do after a certain point to bring it back up.
So the more you build your peak bone mass, bone mineral density, like in your early adulthood, I guess the further it has to decline before hitting the danger zone of osteoporosis, if that makes sense.
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