Body Balance (Part 2)

Balance is key

Each of the 4 body elements plays a vital role in our health. We want each of the body elements to be in proper proportions: strong bones and muscles, a relatively low percentage of body fat, and appropriate levels of water.

Strength & Flexibility
True strength requires flexibility, therefore you need to both build muscle and stretch your muscles.


Building Muscle


• Adding a few pounds of muscle can increase your metabolism, or at least help make up for the decrease in metabolism that occurs naturally as we age. Unfortunately, as we age, we lose muscle strength unless we build it on purpose.

• Because the body is made up of interconnected systems, having strong muscles strengthens bones, too. Stress on your bones stimulates the growth of bone tissue and that helps prevent osteoporosis. If you lift more weight, you put more stress on your bones, thereby stimulating their growth. People lose bone density as they age so, as is the case with muscle strength, unless we build it on purpose, we lose it.

• Stronger muscles are safer muscles. If you’re strong overall, your balance is better.


Flexibility

• Flexibility is how far and how easily your muscles can move a joint. Like bone density and muscle strength, flexibility naturally decreases as we age. Tendons tighten and joints stiffen. Increasing your flexibility will improve your posture and make it easier for you to move about.

• Increasing flexibility can even fix problems you aren’t even aware of, such as muscle imbalances (such as the front of your thighs being stronger than the back). The imbalances may not seem like a big deal in the short term, but over time it can lead to an injury, such as a pulled muscle.

• Improving your body’s flexibility is an excellent investment in your well being, both now and through the years.

Info from US Career Institute

Body Balance (Part 1)

If you were to take your bodies apart you’d find FOUR components that add up to it’s weight:

• Muscle Mass
• Fat Mass
• Water Weight
• Bone Weight

Each person’s body contains the four components in different proportions. Measuring the proportions of each of these parts of the body can be tricky. Our culture often relies, wrongly, on weight as the most important measurement.

Muscle Mass refers to the percentage of body weight from a body’s muscles. The muscular system is responsible for movement – both visible and invisible. About 40% of the body’s weight comes from the muscular system.

Fat Mass is the percentage of body weight made up of fat. Although fat often gets a bad rap, it plays an important role in the body – it protects the internal organs and insulates the body. Fat even stores energy for you to use.

Water Weight is the percentage of body weight made up of water. Water makes up more than 75% of your body. Without enough water, your digestive system doesn’t work smoothly, and your blood doesn’t flow properly.
Note: You need to drink about 8 cups of water a day. As you exercise, your body’s rate of water loss goes up, so does your body’s need for water.


Bone Weight is the percentage of body weight made up of bone. The skeletal system, which includes flexible cartilage and ligaments, accounts for about 20% of body mass. Bones are made up of living tissue that makes blood cells and stores minerals, such as calcium. Bones are light, yet they are 5 times stronger than steel.

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The Way of the 6-Pack

~by Tony Horton~

In the land of last hurrahs, the infamous 6-pack is high on the list. The feeling out there is that if you've got a 6-pack, you've arrived. I have a 6-pack and love handles. What does that say about me? I've arrived at needing to eat my cake/cookies too. Owning a 6-pack (or even an 8-pack) is a result of three key components: diet, cardiovascular exercise, and core/ab work. What most people don't realize is that the core/ab work is last on the list when it comes to how your abs rise to the surface. That's right -- last! Once they begin to show, the way you work them will influence their aesthetic appearance.

If you had stayed active and ate well early on in life (and stayed that way), your stomach muscles would be as easy to see as your head. That stuff covering up your abs is fat. Fat that has accumulated from a life of poor diet and inactivity. Your abdominal muscles are buried far beneath the surface. Ninety-eight percent of humans who attempt to bring the 6-pack to the surface with just crunches, ab lounges, and any other silly low-calorie-burning repetitive motion will fail. That fat is unburned fuel. Cardiovascular exercise involving your legs and a diet low in fat, sugar, and sodium is the way of the 6-pack.

Talk to anyone who has had great results resurfacing the 6-pack from doing Power90, and they'll tell you that eating in the top two tiers of Michi's Ladder and three solid cardio days a week (done consistently) had more to do with it than crunches alone. Do your Ab Ripper routines, Cardio, and Sculpt three days a week. Eat the kind of food seven days a week that doesn't add to the unwanted fuel that keeps "The Pack" from rising to the surface.

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When you lose weight rapidly your body is typically only losing carbohydrates and water weight, not fat. Your body thinks that it’s starving and reduces its metabolic rate, which makes it harder for your body to burn each calorie (they burn at a slower pace than they normally would). Then when you start eating normally again, your body stores as much food as it can into your fat cells in case of another “famine.” This leads to weight gain and can become frustrating or make you fell like it’s impossible to lose weight. If you choose a healthy method, you can make an impact over time for lasting results.