When we exercise, we improve our strength, increase tone and improve our appearance. But how? How does this work? Why does it occur? When we exercise our heart rate increases with the added work load of supplying oxygen to the working muscles. As well as promoting circulation, exercise provides nutrients throughout the whole body.
As we exercise, our muscles due to added work load, suffer from micro tears to our muscle belly. This is a good thing. If you have ever woken up sore the next day this is one of the reasons we are sore. Our body has an amazing ability to fix these tears, and each time is repairs the damage, it makes that muscle a little bit stronger. Therefore doing this repetitively is why men have the ability to grow muscle and get stronger. Females have this ability too, except due to the way female are made it is a lot harder for females to get bigger muscles, but females are able to get stronger. While the body is healing, this uses more energy hence why males don’t seem to put on weight as easily. If we are looking to lose weight and tone our bodies, doing resistance training is a fantastic way of doing this.
Defining and toning of our muscles is done through repetitive movements. If we look at professional dancers, they always have incredible definition lines and toned muscles. They do not lift heavy weights; they do the same thing over and over again repetitively. If we go for a run or swim or cycle, this repetitive action will cause the same effect to our bodies. Remember consistency is the key; we need to focus on doing something towards our end result every day, no matter how small, to get results. If we keep focusing on moving forward, this will develop momentum and create habits, teaching us to thrive on these actions.
The largest organ we own is our skin, if we do not exercise, it will not be able to flourish. Exercise increases our blood flow and promotes higher blood levels throughout our bodies. This is remarkable, being able to do this increases the amount of nutrients we can deliver to our skin, and as a result, it helps to heal our skin faster as well as remove harmful chemicals from deodorants and spray ons more effectively. This in turn makes our skin feel smoother and become tighter to our physique, creating an enhanced appearance naturally. This is exciting, when we achieve this it’s like a self-made drug. We want more of it to drive our endeavour to exercise more and create positive attitudes. This allows us to think clearer and act fast.
Yes, exercise improves our strength. Yes, it increases tone and yes, it improves our appearance. But it does a lot more than this. Below are some great related articles to help inspire us to achieve, understand and learn about our potential.
Cheers, Xenus Fitness
No comments:
Post a Comment