Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Are You Using Your Muscles Enough to Keep Them (Part 1) ?

For years people have associated strength training exercise with athletes and bodybuilders believing that it is all about building big muscles. Yet only a very small percentage of men and women possess the genetic ability to develop the sort of muscular development that we associate with bodybuilders.

It is strange that many people worry about developing large muscles when on the contrary those who do not do enough strength building and maintaining activity should be concerned about losing their muscle.

After we get to our mid 20's and reach maturity our body begins a long and gradual degenerative process. One of the effects of this is the loss of about one-half pound per year of muscle tissue till age 50 then this rate doubles. Our muscle fibers simply become smaller and weaker - a phenomenon called disuse atrophy (waste away). If you had an arm or a leg immobilized in a cast exactly the same thing would happen.



When challenged by weight bearing activity muscles and the bones they are attached too continually renew themselves. Old worn out degenerated cells and tissue are swept away and in their place new tissue that is younger, stronger and healthier is rebuilt.

Without the challenge of strength building and maintaining exercise the human body has no stimulus for the 'growth and repair' mechanism to be activated. Cells and tissues weaken and degenerate and become prone to injury and disease. The old expression 'use it or lose it' is never more apt than in this instance. If you don't use it often and coax your body into doing some physical 'work' you will certainly lose it.

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