windwalker
I need an Adventure
- Joined
- Dec 28, 2006
Back about 1965 a fellow named Carl Shelby built a car called the Cobra. It was a simple idea, "put a big powerfull engine in a light weight car". It wasn't high tech at all but even my today's standards it's one of the top high performance cars ever.
High tech is not the "Holy Grail" when it comes to our bodies. We are always wanting to find the magic pill that will let us lose all the weight we want. We seek the magic exercise that will let us grow strong defined muscles in 10 min, 3 times a week. We are constantly bombarded by advertising that promises these very things.
Being healthy is a simple concept if you understand how your body works. We are a very cool design. Each of us have the "magic" inside already, we are already more high tech than science can possibly ever match. What starts the magic working? Desire! The Desire to be healthy, to be the best each of us can be. We have to be tired of being heavy and out of shape. We have to want to be faster, leaner and healthier.
We can make our bodies listen to us but we have to learn the language it speaks first.
Our bodies are designed to survive. When we eat to much or to many calories our body stores the extra in fat cells. Fat cells are like little balloons or storage sheds. When our body fills all the sheds and more food is coming in our bodies build more sheds.
Our body looks at these sheds as necessary for survival in the lean times. That is what you will live on in the winter when food is scarse. That is a pretty good system except we never get to the lean times when the body needs to start using the stored food.
Our body holds on to it's precious supplies of food. So if you go on a "Crash" diet, your body lowers your metabolism to conserve the stored food as long as possible.
So what you have to do is pretty simple, eat healthy food regularly during the day, so your body doesn't think that the lean times are here and exercise. The exercise needs to be "aerobic" or with oxygen. Exercises like walking, running, biking and swimming done at a brisk but not all our pace will cause your body to start releasing the stored food. Since we are taking in food the body doesn't go into survival mode and lets us use the stored food for the work we are doing.
To improve your muscle fitness there is a simple process also. Continually add more work a little bit at a time. That's what these training plans are all about. Your muscles understand this cycle of work and rest.
I know this sounds like a simple minded observation of a complex process and it is. But it's a process that is already designed into us and basicly we just have to be the person we were designed to be.
Simple "YARC" Panda
High tech is not the "Holy Grail" when it comes to our bodies. We are always wanting to find the magic pill that will let us lose all the weight we want. We seek the magic exercise that will let us grow strong defined muscles in 10 min, 3 times a week. We are constantly bombarded by advertising that promises these very things.
Being healthy is a simple concept if you understand how your body works. We are a very cool design. Each of us have the "magic" inside already, we are already more high tech than science can possibly ever match. What starts the magic working? Desire! The Desire to be healthy, to be the best each of us can be. We have to be tired of being heavy and out of shape. We have to want to be faster, leaner and healthier.
We can make our bodies listen to us but we have to learn the language it speaks first.
Our bodies are designed to survive. When we eat to much or to many calories our body stores the extra in fat cells. Fat cells are like little balloons or storage sheds. When our body fills all the sheds and more food is coming in our bodies build more sheds.
Our body looks at these sheds as necessary for survival in the lean times. That is what you will live on in the winter when food is scarse. That is a pretty good system except we never get to the lean times when the body needs to start using the stored food.
Our body holds on to it's precious supplies of food. So if you go on a "Crash" diet, your body lowers your metabolism to conserve the stored food as long as possible.
So what you have to do is pretty simple, eat healthy food regularly during the day, so your body doesn't think that the lean times are here and exercise. The exercise needs to be "aerobic" or with oxygen. Exercises like walking, running, biking and swimming done at a brisk but not all our pace will cause your body to start releasing the stored food. Since we are taking in food the body doesn't go into survival mode and lets us use the stored food for the work we are doing.
To improve your muscle fitness there is a simple process also. Continually add more work a little bit at a time. That's what these training plans are all about. Your muscles understand this cycle of work and rest.
I know this sounds like a simple minded observation of a complex process and it is. But it's a process that is already designed into us and basicly we just have to be the person we were designed to be.
Simple "YARC" Panda
