Younger Muscles in 30 Days

Most people go through their lives not ever thinking much about how things work but are sure glad they do work when they need them. Since you’re reading this, you’re not one of those people. You are naturally curious about things especially when it comes to your body. One thing you may wonder about during a workout is how your muscles work. With regular application of these simple techniques you'll be on your way to making your muscles younger in thirty days.

It is truly a miracle of nature. All you have to do is think, “I want to pick up this weight” and it just happens. A signal from your brain is sent to what’s called a motor unit, which is a nerve cell and all the muscle fibers under its control to contract, lift a weight, or relax, lower a weight. There are thousands of motor units throughout your body and they can receive and execute signals from your brain in a millisecond. Imagine a drummer doing a wild solo and you get the picture.

The next step of our exploration of the body concerns the different types of muscle tissue and their relation to motor units and each other. If you are lifting a light weight many times and not getting tired or sore, it’s because you are activating slow twitch muscle fibers. They are assigned to doing repetitive jobs like jogging or lift a weight 20-30 times making you functionally fit to do whatever you need to do throughout your day. This explains why when you lift light weights for many repetitions you just get tired but your muscles don’t grow or get stronger but they will be able to endure stresses you put on them for long periods of time.

For muscles to grow and be functionally fit you need to activate your fast twitch muscle fibers. These are fibers embedded deep in your muscles that when trained correctly will actually make cells that produce the chemical reaction that supplies the energy to make your muscles operate. This is done by lifting heavier weights fewer times which will activate both slow and fast twitch fibers/motor units, typically with 8-12 reps or less. Be sure to never lift more than you can comfortably control. If you ever have to swing a weight to lift it or your eyes are ready to pop out of your head, lighten up.

To develop more strength in just your arms or say, just your legs, begin doing exercises with heavier loads in those areas. Be sure let your muscles recover from heavier workouts for 24 hours before repeating the movement. An extreme example of heavy would be Olympic power lifters who train by lifting massive weights only 2 to 3 times. Their muscles grow and become enormously strong when using this method.

The reason you will see 4 or 5 different exercises for the legs or the back is because many different muscles surround those areas and to train them properly you need to exercise in different positions such as seated, face down, face up or on your side to activate and strengthen all the muscles you have. Leaving one area untrained can lead to an imbalance in strength or coordination and may result in a fall or injury.

Now that you understand why your body reacts the way it does while you’re working out, you can decide what type of body you want and how functionally fit you need to be. Now you have the power to decide the best functional training methods to get your muscles fitter, stronger and younger in thirty days.



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