Train Regularly!
This blog was created to convey research-based material to the general public, inorder to persuade people to eat and live healthy, and above all if you haven't figured it out yet EXERCISE!!! I know 99.9% of you would keel over laughing if i asked you if you wanted to dabble in a research article. That's why I forward everything that I know and learn to the readers. For some, a post may interest you, for others, check back tomorrow, because my daily article selection is about as predictable as an episode of Lost (love that show-geek!!)
Now that I have stated my main purpose to those of you that give a rat's arse, on to the good stuff.
If you don't have any physical exercise in your daily routine, your muscle atrophies. Simple as that. Lack of muscle stimulation leads the body to believe you don't need it, therefore it's size, strength and function will diminish. Have you ever had to have a cast or a brace on for a 4-6 week period? If you have you know exactly what I am talking about. Along with a stench that could choke pig farmer (nothing against pig farmers), you get a puny, weak, barely functioning reminant of what used to be a fully functional limb. This is due to the lack of stimulation to the muscles involved in moving that limb, hence the need for physical therapists.
So the reason for me writing this article is to convince all you "fitness enthusiasts" that believe your once-a-month gym rant will wip you into shape, that it will not. While I would normally say that any exercise is good exercise (well I guess it is) it is virtually pointless. What would probably happen is that your body would have such a great post-exercise increase in metabolism or "after burn", as a knowledgable man by the name of Alwyn Cosgrove would call it, that you would actually intake more calories over the next day than you would if you didn't ever workout in the first place. Therefore overfeeding yourself. Besides that, your body would repair itself within several days and get back to homeostasis (or a comfort zone in a land of no muscle building or fat loss), without an any other stimulus for another four weeks.
Anyways, the point is muscle building requires, at the very least, moderate training of some sort every 3 days. Any longer than that and it becomes maintenance training. After a week or two layoff, you begin to detrain or lose what you have hardly gained. Fat loss requires constant exercise to expend energy and burn calories other wise the calories you take in won't be used and will be stored as fat. Also another small tid bit. Diet alone will most likely lower your metabolism, so that your body's fat burning capability will also be lowered. While exercise without changing your diet will burn extra calories that your body is used to storing as fat.
So there are a few reasons to exercise regularly. If you are too stubborn to take my advice, or any other experts advice then you will pack on the fat instead of muscle. If you listen to my friendly piece of advice you can enjoy the melting of fat, instead of muscle. Until next time, cheers!
Now that I have stated my main purpose to those of you that give a rat's arse, on to the good stuff.
If you don't have any physical exercise in your daily routine, your muscle atrophies. Simple as that. Lack of muscle stimulation leads the body to believe you don't need it, therefore it's size, strength and function will diminish. Have you ever had to have a cast or a brace on for a 4-6 week period? If you have you know exactly what I am talking about. Along with a stench that could choke pig farmer (nothing against pig farmers), you get a puny, weak, barely functioning reminant of what used to be a fully functional limb. This is due to the lack of stimulation to the muscles involved in moving that limb, hence the need for physical therapists.
So the reason for me writing this article is to convince all you "fitness enthusiasts" that believe your once-a-month gym rant will wip you into shape, that it will not. While I would normally say that any exercise is good exercise (well I guess it is) it is virtually pointless. What would probably happen is that your body would have such a great post-exercise increase in metabolism or "after burn", as a knowledgable man by the name of Alwyn Cosgrove would call it, that you would actually intake more calories over the next day than you would if you didn't ever workout in the first place. Therefore overfeeding yourself. Besides that, your body would repair itself within several days and get back to homeostasis (or a comfort zone in a land of no muscle building or fat loss), without an any other stimulus for another four weeks.
Anyways, the point is muscle building requires, at the very least, moderate training of some sort every 3 days. Any longer than that and it becomes maintenance training. After a week or two layoff, you begin to detrain or lose what you have hardly gained. Fat loss requires constant exercise to expend energy and burn calories other wise the calories you take in won't be used and will be stored as fat. Also another small tid bit. Diet alone will most likely lower your metabolism, so that your body's fat burning capability will also be lowered. While exercise without changing your diet will burn extra calories that your body is used to storing as fat.
So there are a few reasons to exercise regularly. If you are too stubborn to take my advice, or any other experts advice then you will pack on the fat instead of muscle. If you listen to my friendly piece of advice you can enjoy the melting of fat, instead of muscle. Until next time, cheers!
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