Muscle bound?
Saturday, December 19th, 2009Both for men and women, keeping muscles in shape is important – as I point out in my post Why muscles? But there is one reason why many people steer away from any exercise that forcefully contract the muscles (particularly weights). And that is a fear of getting too big. Now, really big muscles are [...]
Muscle loss as you get older
Thursday, November 26th, 2009Known 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. [...]
How often should you exercise?
Saturday, November 7th, 2009Well 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, [...]
Why muscles?
Monday, October 19th, 2009Apart 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 [...]
Repetitions – how many?
Friday, October 16th, 2009One of the things that bothers people about many forms of muscle exercise is “how many reps?”. Well, I remember a few (quite a few!) years ago, reading a book by a (Dr.) Someone who had worked on systems for keeping astronauts as fit as possible in space. He stated that it was the first [...]
