You Can"t Be Healthy Without Muscle Strength
Most people don't appreciate their muscles.
The expect them to work like faithful servants in the background and hardly give them a thought.
But you either have healthy, strong, toned muscles or weak, flabby, soft muscles.
And the health of your muscles is a good indication of the state of your overall health.
Why is muscle so important? It is the driving force behind your metabolism (your body's engine).
Muscle tissue is highly active tissue and is utilizing energy continually for maintenance and renewing itself.
Even when we are resting or sleeping our skeletal muscles are responsible for more than 25 percent of our total energy expenditure.
The primary source of energy for muscle is fat and experts believe that every pound of muscle we add or lose as an adult is worth about 350 calories per week.
This has important weight loss implications because muscle mass directly affects metabolic rate which is the rate you burn fuel (calories).
This means the more muscle tissue you have on your body the more fat and calories you can burn, and the more food you can eat without gaining weight.
This is called a good metabolism and it does not just happen by accident.
It is determined by your life choices - mainly the amount of muscle building and maintaining activity you do or don't do on a daily basis.
If you don't have a naturally active life you need intentional exercise in the way of strength training to make up for it.
Looking after the health of your muscles with proper exercise is one of the best ways to control body weight because it causes a double reducing effect.
First, strength training is vigorous physical activity and burns a significant number of calories during the exercise session itself.
Secondly, additional muscle tissue produced by your strength training program increases your resting metabolic rate which means a higher rate of calories are burned all day long - regardless of whether you are being active or watching television on the couch.
For years people have associated strength training exercise with athletes and bodybuilders, yet only a small percentage of people possess the genetics to develop relatively large muscles.
Most of us cannot, even if we wanted to.
On the contrary, people who are not doing enough muscle building and maintaining activity should be concerned about losing too much muscle.
When we get to our mid 20's; our bodies begin a long and gradual degenerative process if we allow it to happen.
One of the most important factors in the speed we age is the loss of muscle tissue at the rate of one half pound per year until age 50 then this rate doubles.
This is where strength training is very valuable as it easily and effectively replaces the removal of anything that even vaguely resembles 'physical work' which has been all but forgotten in our inactive and sedentary world.
Only regular strength training can maintain and rebuild this lost muscle tissue and reboot your metabolism.
It is important for all adults, no matter how old you are and it's never ever too late to start.
The expect them to work like faithful servants in the background and hardly give them a thought.
But you either have healthy, strong, toned muscles or weak, flabby, soft muscles.
And the health of your muscles is a good indication of the state of your overall health.
Why is muscle so important? It is the driving force behind your metabolism (your body's engine).
Muscle tissue is highly active tissue and is utilizing energy continually for maintenance and renewing itself.
Even when we are resting or sleeping our skeletal muscles are responsible for more than 25 percent of our total energy expenditure.
The primary source of energy for muscle is fat and experts believe that every pound of muscle we add or lose as an adult is worth about 350 calories per week.
This has important weight loss implications because muscle mass directly affects metabolic rate which is the rate you burn fuel (calories).
This means the more muscle tissue you have on your body the more fat and calories you can burn, and the more food you can eat without gaining weight.
This is called a good metabolism and it does not just happen by accident.
It is determined by your life choices - mainly the amount of muscle building and maintaining activity you do or don't do on a daily basis.
If you don't have a naturally active life you need intentional exercise in the way of strength training to make up for it.
Looking after the health of your muscles with proper exercise is one of the best ways to control body weight because it causes a double reducing effect.
First, strength training is vigorous physical activity and burns a significant number of calories during the exercise session itself.
Secondly, additional muscle tissue produced by your strength training program increases your resting metabolic rate which means a higher rate of calories are burned all day long - regardless of whether you are being active or watching television on the couch.
For years people have associated strength training exercise with athletes and bodybuilders, yet only a small percentage of people possess the genetics to develop relatively large muscles.
Most of us cannot, even if we wanted to.
On the contrary, people who are not doing enough muscle building and maintaining activity should be concerned about losing too much muscle.
When we get to our mid 20's; our bodies begin a long and gradual degenerative process if we allow it to happen.
One of the most important factors in the speed we age is the loss of muscle tissue at the rate of one half pound per year until age 50 then this rate doubles.
This is where strength training is very valuable as it easily and effectively replaces the removal of anything that even vaguely resembles 'physical work' which has been all but forgotten in our inactive and sedentary world.
Only regular strength training can maintain and rebuild this lost muscle tissue and reboot your metabolism.
It is important for all adults, no matter how old you are and it's never ever too late to start.
