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Muscle control and muscle shake

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

One aspect of muscle control exercise is the concentration on contraction of the specific muscle being exercised. If the intensity of the contraction on any muscle causes that muscle to shake, then you have gone too far – back off, perform the exercise with less intensity. If the muscle shakes even with very low intensity [...]

Swimming as cardiovascular exercise

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

I am sure that swimming is a really great form of exercise. And, equally, I have no doubt that the resistance of pushing water around is good for the muscles, but, for most, I have reservations about its’ effectiveness as a cardiovascular exercise. Now I am not talking about the dedicated swimmer, who probably belongs [...]

Change is the key to effective exercise

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

You may well have seen this theme on many other sites and I am going to reinforce it here. Just doing the same routine forever will not work. Not only will you get bored, so will your muscles! The exercises will lose their effect. There are two main ways round this. One is to change [...]

Muscle loss as you get older

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Known as Sarcopenia – see Wikipedia for the full details. I realise that with my balance being aimed at core and torso exercises and the emphasis on shape, I may have slightly neglected a point associated with muscle mass, in that the biggest muscles are around the top half of the legs and the hips. [...]

Running surfaces

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

I often hear fitness experts on running say that there is more stress on the joints when running on hard surfaces like roads, pavements and paths etc. Now, I like to run a bit, and my knees are not too good at all (cartilage damage from too much football when I was young, one knee [...]

Learn to listen to your body

Friday, November 20th, 2009

I think one of the reasons that many people do not get as much as they should out of an exercise session as they should (or want!) is a lack of real concentration on the task at hand. I touched on this in Your body wants what you want for it! You may think you [...]

How often should you exercise?

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

Well that depends on what you are doing doesn’t it? If you are doing strenuous cardio stuff like running then the wisdom is at least twice a week with three times a week being the optimum. You certainly shouldn’t run EVERY day. Likewise, if you are exercising your muscles to breakdown, as in weight training, [...]

Your body wants what you want for it!

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

One of my pleasures in life is my frequent visits to the pub (for social reasons of course!). I see a lot of people down there in various physical conditions.  Some of them, and other people I know, go to the gym (they say on a regular basis – I believe them!).  I have to [...]

Easy exercise for the elderly?

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

I overheard a conversation between a group of friends of varying ages today.  One of the elder ones (the oldest I believe) is in his mid eighties and has a few health problems mainly associated with a foot problem. As I understand it, part of the medical advice he had was to generally try to [...]

Why muscles?

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Apart from their obvious task of carting us around by inflicting forces on our bony bits by tweaking tendons and things, muscles have quite a lot to do with our general well-being. Without them we would fall into a heap! They circulate blood They improve our metabolism so we are more disposed towards losing fat [...]

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