I say, yup. My body, just like yours, has muscles on it. The purpose of those muscles is to move my skeleton. My body has just the right amount of muscle it needs to perform my daily activities.
I always like to refer back to my time in the Navy at sea. My first watch station required me to go up and down sixteen very steep flights of steps. I had to do that once every hour for five hours. After about two weeks my thighs had ballooned up.
WOD: Weekly Log 3-10-2013
Another study was done on the effects of tabata on females. The study was performed using a group of females around 20 yrs old. There was of course a control group along with second group that performed 30 minutes on the treadmill and a third group that performed a tabata style workout.
It was found that both the 30 minute and 4 minute group gained aerobic capacity, but the 4 minute tabata group also had good gains in muscular endurance. I believe these findings once again show that quick, low volume high intensity work can give better results than long boring cardio workouts.
If you like research reports, check out the findings at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22994393?report=abstract
Today i was thinking. If our stomach is supposedly only as big as our fist, then why are our meal sizes so dang large. Yes, the stomach can stretch to accommodate more food, expanding to ten times its original size (some research even lists it at 50 times), but why would we force it to do that?
Did anybody ever think that maybe, just maybe, the brain sees a stretched stomach as a sign that food is abundant in this meal? Therefore, the body should store some as fat just in case we don’t come across an abundant meal again.
WOD: Weekly Log 3-3-2013
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Today I picked up my sea bag and did a quick 20Â reps of picking it up off of the floor and putting it on my shoulders. I alternated shoulders each rep. I forgot what a great exercise this was. It’s been a while since I did them. I used to add them to the end of each bodyweight FUN-damental circuit.
The more I trim away at my workouts I find that I end up going back to what I used to do. A lot of body movements. It just makes sense and I feel my body getting faster and more agile every day.
If you look on pretty much every package of food there is a nutrition facts label. On that label there is a breakdown of how many calories per serving, fat, carbs and protein content. Depending on what it is, there may also be vitamin levels shown. There is also a serving size. The serving size is not really a recommended portion size. It is there to tell you how much of the breakdown is in each serving.
If you’ve ever noticed in my weekly log, when I go to the pool I end up swimming for 1-2 hours. Why? Because I love the pool. I look forward to it all week. If for some reason I end up not going I can’t wait until the next time.
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