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Exercise
Exercise is fundamental to healthy living. Ask questions here about types of exercise and developing exercise habits in your life.
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Protein Shakes as their name suggest are supplements which provide protein to growing muscles in your body. To gain mass you would need the extra protein but be mindful that protein consumed would eventually turn into fat if it is not utilized by your body. As a general rule for bodybuilders world wide, you can never think of gaining muscle or mass and weight loss at the same time..... But i guess if you work your muscles and do enough cardio, you could ensure muscle gain and loss of fat.
So if you are an individual with some extra flab, work out to first lose the flab and then when its gone, take the help of protein shake to fuel the growth of your muscles. I know I know, you must be thinking it would take twice as long, but believe me the fat lost shall stay off longer and your muscles shall look awesome.
good luck!
How long does it take to walk 1.3km?
About 15 minutes at normal speed on flat ground. If there is till probably around 20 and if you are carrying things probably 20 as well.
Steatopygia is a high degree of fat accumulation in and around the buttocks. The deposit of fat is not confined to the gluteal regions, but extends to the outside and front of the thighs, forming a thick layer reaching sometimes to the knee.
Etymology of physical fitness?
FITNESS comes from the Old English
word "fitte," past participle of the verb,
"fitten," meaning "to be suitable, qualified
or competent." The word "fitnesse" could be
first found in literature in the year 1580.
For four hudred years, "fitness" meant proper
or worthy, as in one's moral aptitude; or it
meant suitable and appropriate, as in the ability
to perform a function--
like how qualified a candidate was for office.
In the late 1800's, writings of Charles Darwin
and Ralph Waldo Emerson still revealed FITNESS
to mean functional and appropriate.
In the 1940's, a brilliant emigrant M.D. from Austria
named Dr. Hans Kraus began testing children
in the U.S. and Europe for what he termed,
"Muscular Fitness." (in other words, muscular
functionality) Through his testing, he
found children in the U.S. to be far less
physically capable than European children.
Kruas published some alarming papers in
various journals, and got the attention of
some powerful people, including a senator
from Pennsylvania who took the findings
to President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
President Eisenhower was "shocked."
He set up a series of conferences and
committees; then in July of 1956, Eisenhower
established the President's Council on Youth Fitness.
For the next 20 or 30 years, the word
FITNESS still meant "suitable and
proper," although the buzz word,
PHYSICAL FITNESS bounced around
schools gymnasiums and across the
family dinner table. The 1971 Oxford English
Dictionary gives no reference for FITNESS
to mean anything about physicality.
In the late 1960's, the popularity of teenage
model Twiggy started a craze for having a
thin body. Although she hardly seemed athletic and
capable, people loved Twiggy's slight figure.
In 1968, Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper wrote the very
popular book, "Aerobics," which was evidently
the beginning of the big exercise push in the U.S.
Then something changed. With the
advent of the VHS player in the '80's,
people could start exercising at home. Thus
was born the "exercise guru." Millions of
Americans (mostly women) started buying
exercise videos, trying to achieve the bodies
of Jane Fonda, Denise Austin and Susan Powter.
Physical fitness was taking hold.
By the late 80's, the Body Image Craze was on !
For many, dieting was easier than exercising.
The word "fat" became the new asbestos
(reduced fat, low fat, fat-free, "that guy's fat.");
lots of new diets hit the market to sell big
and help people reach their hard-body ideal.
Years later, Dr. Atkins popularized the
no-carb diet.
Although many people chose either the
all-diet-no-exercise camp, or the all-exercise-
no-diet camp, exercise was really catching on.
Jogging became very popular, and aerobics
changed to include dance (like Jazzercise)
in order to keep people interested.
By the 1990's, exercise changed again because
people wanted the hard body, but they were getting
bored. Bodybuilding became popular, and aerobic
exercise got meaner with the inclusion of martial arts.
Madonna's fame & rock hard body gave all new
popularity to the long-dormant practice of yoga.
Like many English terms, physical fitness was
shortened to just FITNESS.
In the last 20 or 30 years, the perfect body for
women went from Marilyn Monroe to Raquel Welch to
Linda Carter (Wonder Woman) to Denise Austin.
The perfect body for men went from
Jack Lalane to Arnold Schwartzenegger,
and then scaled back to Matthew McConaughey.
With FITNESS, anyone could be beautiful. And seemingly,
that's all that matters. FITNESS has become the excalibre
of the Western world.
The word FITNESS substantially changed from
meaning "appropriate," to now meaning
THE CONDITION OF HAVING BOTH
NOTICEABLE MUSCLES AND REDUCED BODY FAT,
USUALLY AS A RESULT OF EXERCISE.
The new meaning has to do with AESTHETICS,
or making a body LOOK GOOD.
Oh sure, people can say they get "FIT" so that they
can do more and feel better, but exercise gurus are
selling their hard bodies under the title FITNESS
and people are buying it.
By 1999, FITNESS guru Billy Blanks had sold over
ONE BILLION Tae Bo video sets from his infomercial.
With the dance music pumping and Billy's six-pack
abs glistening under the lights, who could resist ?
by Tommy kirchhoff
Why are people today not getting enough beneficial exercise?
I personally believe that in todays world people are not getting enough beneficial exercise because they consume such a large amount of food daily and do the bare minimum for exercise (i.e:walk for 10 min). Unhealthy individuals usually are not pushing themselves to where they need to be, like sweating, or cardio, weights etc. When some one gets a little tired or think they have "exercised" in 10 minutes they stop. This is an inaccurate way to think your doing something to benefit your body because your actually doing nothing. Peoples bodies are not benefitting from what exercise because they are not exercising properly. For people with heart conditions, or leg problems, even high blood pressure, or obesity can benefit from exercising if they do the correct exercises in reps for at least 30 minutes. Over eating, or eating unhealthy foods with lots of hydrogenated ingredients is no help. Fast food, and portion control are also essential for people to be aware of because exercise can be pointless if the foods one eats is incredibly unhealthy.
Do press ups increase chest muscle?
Press ups do increase chest muscle. When you're doing then it uses your pecks and the muscle above them.
60 miles equals a 100 kilometers. 60 miles also equals 316 800 ft.
Agility would be the ability keep on your feet, in a sense. Like foot work. It's not exactly balance, but it is the gracefulness of a person in any type of sport. So, not the person is always tripping up, but the person who knows how to stay on their feet, but can fall when the time comes.
Is it possible to speed up metabolism without constant exercise?
well you can but it wont speed up significantly. like keeping hydrated will speed up metabolism and will also remove toxins from the body whick also removes fat deposits
What are good jump rope exercises?
Jack Cascio shows you in this video how you can jump higher and dunk.
The primary difference between the effects of rep ranges on the adaptive response depends on whether the load affects neural factors (low reps) or metabolic factors (higher reps). When you train with low reps (1 - 5), the adaptations that make you stronger are mostly neurological: You develop an increased ability to recruit more muscle fibers, you stimulate the higher threshold fibers that are not activated with high rep, low weight sets, you decrease neuromuscular inhibition, and there is increased coordination between the muscle groups. However, with low reps, the hypertrophy (size increase) of the muscle fibers is minimal.
In other words, reps under 6 make you stronger, but they don't necessarily make you bigger because the strength gains come from adaptations in the nervous system - the muscle fibers and other muscle cell structures do not hypertrophy (enlarge). This explains why certain athletes, powerlifters and Olympic lifters can be wicked strong but they don't look as strong as they are.
When you train with medium reps (6-12) the adaptations are more metabolic and cellular and only moderately neurological. This is why 6-12 reps is the range most often recommended for bodybuilding and hypertrophy. You get bigger and stronger in this rep range, but your strength gains are not maximal. This explains why some bodybuilders look stronger than they are (and why they are often the brunt of jokes made by powerlifters and weight lifters; i.e. "big, weak, slow, useless muscles", ha ha).
When you train with higher reps (13-20+), the adaptations are mostly metabolic and cellular. This rep range produces local muscular endurance, a small degree of hypertrophy in certain cellular components such as the mitochondria and the capillaries, and very little strength.
There is not a distinct line where neural adaptations end and structural/metabolic adaptations begin; rather it is a continuum, like temperature or colors of a rainbow.
For example, when you train in the 6-8 rep range, the adaptations are still somewhat neural, but also metabolic/structural: In this rep range, you get excellent strength gains and also excellent hypertrophy. In the 8-12 rep range, there is still some neural adaptation, but less than the 6-8 range and much less than the 1-5 range. The advantage of the 8-12 rep range is that you get maximal hypertrophy (this is the best rep range for pure size increases when strength is not the number one concern). You will also get stronger, of course, but not nearly to the degree as you would training with lower reps.
Rep range Percent of 1 rep max Training Effect Goal desired1-5 reps85-100%NeuralStrength & power, little hypertrophy6-8 reps75-85%Neural & metabolicStrength & Hypertrophy9-12 reps70-75%Metabolic & NeuralHypertrophy & some strength13-20+ reps60-70%Metaboliclocal endurance, some hypertrophy, little strength
Now, what exactly happens inside the muscle to make it get bigger and not necessarily stronger? Quite simply, ALL the structures inside the muscle cell grow when exposed to the appropriate training stimulus.
Remember back in high school when you had to memorize those diagrams of cellular anatomy (or you would get an F in the class)? There were all kinds of organelles and cell structures such as the endoplasmic reticulum, the mitochondria, the Golgi complex, ribosomes, centrioles, Lysosomes, and cytoplasm. Remember all that stuff?
If you're anything like me, you defied your biology teacher to explain the reason why you had to memorize all that crap and what good it would do you in the "real world." Well, now that you're in the "real world" and you want strength and muscles, here you go:
A muscle cell has all the same cell structures as other body cells, and they all take up space. When speaking of the muscle cell, you mostly hear about the mitochondria (the cellular powerhouse where energy production takes place), the myofibrils (the actual muscle fibers themselves) and the fluid inside the cell (called cytoplasm in other body cells, or in the case of the muscle cell, its called sarcoplasm).
Myofibrillar hypertrophy is caused most effectively in the 6-8 rep range. This contributes to the most visible increases in muscle mass and cross sectional width. However, that doesn't mean you should only train in the 6-8 rep range. If you want to make the other "stuff" in the muscle cell grow as well, you should train in all rep ranges. The mitochondria and sarcoplasm also take up a substantial amount of space in the muscle cell and they are best stimulated with high reps. High rep training can also stimulate increased capillarization in the muscle (just ask former Mr. Universe and Mr. Legs himself, Tom Platz, about the effectiveness of high rep leg training done in addition to the low and medium rep training).
In addition, there is more than one type of muscle fiber: you have slow twitch (type I) and fast twitch (type IIa and IIb). Slow twitch muscle fibers also hypertrophy from higher reps (although they have the least potential for size increases, which is why you should spend more time below 13 reps if it's muscle mass you're after).
So here's the take home lesson: If you're an athlete and your primary goal is strength and power for improved sports performance, then a good majority of your training is going to be in the 1-5 rep range. This will help make you stronger, faster and more powerful without adding muscle bulk. If you're a bodybuilder and your primary goal is muscle mass, then the majority of your training should be done in the 6-12 rep range, but you should also do a little bit of training in the 3-5 rep range for power and strength, which will later facilitate hypertrophy (and prevent the powerlifters from making fun of you), and you should do a little bit of training in the 13-20+ rep range to facilitate the development of slow twitch muscle fiber, build mitochondrial density and increase capillarization
Source:
http://www.ironmagazine.com/article180.HTML
What are some exercises for stretched knee tendons?
It depends on the degree of injury and several other factors.
Generally, light weight on the ankle then straighten the knee 10 to 15 times, 3 times a day. Technically that doesn't repair damage but the increased muscle strength will allow the muscle to support the knee and prevent further damage while the body deals with healing.
Light weight should be about 10 pounds or possibly less. Don't do anything that hurts. If it hurts, cut back.
In the case of knee injury it's always best to talk to an ortho specialist.
That's what it is. It is a combination of lactic acid and your muscles have broken down from the overuse. Rest them for a day and the muscle will heal itself and be stronger.
What are the disadvantages of eccentric training?
if you don't do this properly with the help of a professional that does know more than you, you might not use the correct weight best for you and may lack of technique or hurt yourself badly in the proses get help and more knowledge before trying this method
