Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Muscle it does a body good

Do you want to increase you endurance?

Do you want to increase you balance?

Increase running speed?

Increase bone mass?

Burn more calories?


The answer to all above is add muscle. You don't need a gym either. Functional training using you own body weight will help you build muscle.

What is functional training? Well it's every day movement but adding resistance and repetition. Imagine picking up a ball and throwing it and similar actions.

You don't' need a gym or equipment either as we proved in class lately. Simple squats, lunges, push ups and plank will give you a full body workout. Do you want an interval workout alternate plank with squats or lunges.

It's been proven that the excess muscle movement ( I don't want to say flop but ....) the more the fibers are torn down unnecessarily, this is why compression shorts keep you from getting sore. Now imagine tighten and built those same muscles. Now the muscles hold themselves in place. Less movement =fewer muscle fiber torn and less residual soreness. Make sense?

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