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CARING FOR YOUR PHYSICAL SELF IS A FORM OF SELF EXPRESSION
To be able to express yourself creatively leads to feelings of jubilation and purpose, whether through painting music or movement.
Athletes at some level, to achieve that special feeling of timelessness, are true artists.
They balance gravity with centripital force, often wind and terrain fluctuations with their own muscular force and kinestetic awareness, to multiply their own energy tenfold.
Through the power of visualization they are able to move without thinking just reacting with instinctive intuition.
Movement is resistance exercise. Like an artist creating a painting, you must create layers to blend dark and light, heavy and lighter, fast and slow, and everything in between.
The deeper you go into the origin of all movement, to the minute protein motor myosin within the myofibrils, to the spark plug of the body ATP and its derivative ATP Ase, the more accurately you can layer in the specificity needed.
Because strength is specific to how you train.
You have to understand the smallest to manipulate the largest.
Start with the base, slow twitch fibers for posture and vertebral alignment. Isometric contractions are needed to stabilize the 33 vertebral segments of the spine.
Create motor pattern awareness through neuromuscular adaptation by working the posterior shunting muscles to help maintain alignment, and therefore creating a stabilizing effect on the skeletal system.
These shunting muscles are made of the posterior upper torso and anterior lower torso.
They help to maintain neutral spine position and proper pelvic alignment.
Now the large spurting muscles which hang off the skeletal frame can be properly strengthened.
Once the core and pillar strength has been established, move to intermediate and fast twitch fibers while constantly assessing resistance profiles and strength profiles as to decrease destructive forces on passive and connective tissues.
Juggling all these factors and then adding client needs and goals, create a challenging experience and can evoke many positive changes.
When done in a well-layered well-honed method, like a painting with its many layers of color and texture, the trainer works with motion creating emotion and changing perception. Because perception is after all reality.
Here is some practical information anyone can use.
Avoid Trans-fatty acids and partly hydrogenated fats.
They increase the shelf life of food products but decrease your life quality.
Consume omega-3 rich foods every day.
Only three grams a day may reduce your risk of sudden cardiac death by as much as 50-80%, lower your triglycerides, reduce inflammation and may help prevent cancer.
Lower your intake of sugars and refind carbs.
The obvious result is lower insulin levels and therefore less chance of diabetes. But rememeber cancer cells have 6-10 times the number of insulin receptor molecules. Insulin to cancer is like pouring gas on a fire. Also, sugar forms with protein to form glycation which over time will affect soft tissues and collagen. This will contribute to joint problems and also creates a precancerous state.
Sleep eight hours a night.
Men get one big HGH pulse daily, during the first phases of slow-wave sleep (a few hours into your sleep cycle). Avoid caffeine after lunch, and don't eat, exercise, or drink alcohol within two hours of your bedtime.
Eat a total of 5 to six small meals a day.
Energy flux drives your metabolism. if you combine increased feeding with increased movement, you increase your "energy flux", and this is the key to maintaining a fast muscle friendly fat starving metabolism. (include some protein in every meal).
Do three 20 minute high intensity workouts a week.
We can burn more calories than normal up to 38 hours after a weight workout.
Good example: squat,lunge jumps, chest press or pushups, and bent single arm rows.
Eat most energy dense foods in the morning (carbs) and nutrient dense foods later in the day.
Reserve your cravings for sugary foods for immediately after your workout. You have a 90 minute glycogin window.
Take supplements to increase free radical scavenging and prevent inflammation. You can make new cells better than the old ones.
Have some fun! Take time out for yourself. Keep that little boy or girl inside you alive.
Karel
says,"Food is Fuel." Choose your food wisely. Eat breakfast
like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper. It
doesn't mean you have to starve. Healthy snacks in between meals,
keep your metabolism going the whole day.
EGG
WHITE OMELET
1. Sun dried tomatoes
2. Chicken or Turkey Sausage
3. 1/2 cup of Egg Beaters
4. Olive Oil
Eat with 1/2 Whole Wheat Bagel, dry
or
CEREAL
1. 3/4 cup of Flaxseed cereal
2. 1/4/ cup of Frozen Blueberries
3. Fat Free Yogurt
4. 1 scoop of protein powder
or
OATMEAL
1. 1 Oatmeal package
2. 1/4 cup of Frozen Blueberries
1 scoop of protein powder
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