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Thursday, 09 October 2008 22:45 |
 Understanding the Body’s Energy Systems.
You have to understand body energy systems and what they use for fuel during exercise before getting into optimal meal and supplement timing for a workout.
Phosphocreatine Energy System
Weight training mainly uses the phosphocreatine (PCr) energy system, which supplies the body with energy for activity lasting less than eight seconds (explosive and short activity is dependent on this system). Creatine and phosphate supplementation can maximize this energy system.
Glycolytic Energy System
If you exercise between eight and 30 seconds, the body uses a little of the PCr system but then switches to the glycolytic energy system—mainly anaerobic glycolysis. To function optimally, this system requires carbohydrate energy from food sources or from stored carbohydrate energy (glycogen) in the liver and muscle tissue. The body uses anaerobic and aerobic glycolysis for activity between 30 seconds and two minutes, again requiring fuel derived from carbohydrates.
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Losing Weight
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 07:54 |
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Tips For Exercising That Can Help You Lose Weight.
 It is no big secret that the act of gaining weight is very simple to do. It is the act of losing this extra weight that is not so easy to accomplish. If you are attempting to begin a new diet or exercise program, the first thing that you will need to do, is calculate the daily calories for the daily activities that you perform. You will also need to calculate your BMR or Basal Metabolic Rate. Something that you may find beneficial, is jotting down the types of food that you eat. This will help you keep track of calories.
Helpful Exercise Tips
One of the most important tips that you will want to always keep in mind is that you need to set realistic goals for yourself. Setting unrealistic goals is only going to set yourself up for failure! The goals that you set can be helpful in giving you a way to analyze your progress as you begin to try and lose weight.
Aerobic exercise such as cycling, walking, jogging, and various others that work your cardiovascular system can be extremely beneficial when you are trying to lose weight, especially if you do them for approximately 20 minutes with your heart rate raised to the appropriate level. |
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 07:43 |
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 Are You Familiar With The Platysma Muscle?
Many people may not know this, but the platysma muscle that is located in the upper part of your torso, consisting of not only your face, but your neck, and your upper chest as well.
These muscles are very important to you, because they control each of your facial expressions. They do this by helping the action of your lower lip in being able to move down, as well as sideways. A large number of individuals have had great success in getting rid of a bothersome double chin, simply by exercising their platysma.
A double chin can often times occur when fat is stored in this particular area of your body. Yes, it is true that this area is one of the easiest to accumulate fat, and it is also one of the hardest areas on your body to get rid of the fat. This is because there are very few exercises that you can do with your platysma.
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Gain Muscle
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 19:37 |
Get The Most From Your Chest Workout.
 When most people think of building up their upper chest muscles, they think of doing bench press exercises. Furthermore, those same people usually think of the flat bench exercises. The flat bench press is one of the best ways to build up chest muscle, and probably a guaranteed way to gain body mass and strength. The drawback to it is that once you get to a certain point, you will begin to plateau.
This will happen to any exercise that you do unless you change what you are doing. You can do this by alternating styles of presses. Incline, flat, and decline bench press are recommended when you are trying to pass the plateau point, and doing so can build size and strength faster.
Incline Bench Press
By adding this exercise into your workout routine in conjunction to the flat bench press, you will begin to target the upper pectoral muscles. Inclines are a great compound exercise that helps to build your upper body strength and size. The shoulders, triceps, biceps, chest, posterior deltoids, anterior deltoids, and stabilizer muscles are all worked in this exercise.
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Losing Weight
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 18:58 |
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 Lose Weight Through Your Daily Routine.
There are a lot of different diets out there being sold in magazines, books, and on TV shows, and most of them start with changing your diet. They want you to remove all of your favorite foods, simply because most of our favorite foods are not healthy, but you do not have to. There are ways that you can lose weight and eat what you want to eat. Here are ten ways that you can lose weight without giving up the food you want.
Take the stairs
Just this simple change in your daily routine will give your heart rate and metabolism a boost and begin to burn calories.
Make small substitutions in the food you eat
If you really want to lose some weight and keep it off, you need to make some small changes to your diet. You will not stress out your system and you are more likely to be able to keep the weight off. Some changes could be sweetener for sugar, and water for sodas.
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