Having muscle strength is good for all sports but some more than others. For example boxing you will need agility stamina and strength to attack the opponent. These attacks will all be explosive to create more impact to the opponent. If you have a lot of muscle strength in your chest and arm you will be more likely to cause more damage to the opponent.…
When you're working out for the purpose of building muscle, it's important to consider how…
“Building and strengthening skeletal muscle fortifies the bones, ligaments, and tendons.This will minimize the risk of injury that can occur in sport competition, training, getting out of your car, or playing with your kids” (Kelso). Muscle helps you live longer. Sarcopenia is the scientific term referring to the loss of muscle that comes with ageing. It’s the sad truth. We lose muscle mass as we age, about 50% between the ages 20 and 90. Women will lose about 1% muscle mass every year when they are menopausal. and all the muscle mass they lose turns to fat naturally (Kelso). Your body needs insulin receptors to help your body minimize fat and maintain a lean figure. Working out provides more insulin receptor sites. A short high energy workout will stress your heart-vascular system way more than a long low energy…
Muscular Endurance Muscular endurance refers to the ability of certain muscle groups to exert force for a prolonged period of time; being that the power exerted is not of maximum power.…
Extent Flexibility — The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.…
1. Muscle is a metabolic marker that tricks your body into thinking it’s younger. The more muscle you have, the younger you look. Don’t believe me? Find a muscular 75-year old guy at your gym. I guarantee he looks like he’s in his 50s. 2. Muscle burns fat. Muscle increases the amount of calories you burn throughout the day. Whether it’s 1 calorie or 1000 calories (another academic debate I don’t get into), it burns more calories than being fat. Your take home message: You’re an idiot if you don’t want muscle on your body. 3. Muscle increases the quality of your life. Weight training increases your tendon, ligament and joint strength and prevents you from being weak and frail and looking like a pushover. 4. Muscle gives you confidence. The only problem with muscle is that it’s like a drug. Once you get some, you want more and more. I use my muscle to serve and inspire other people, not just to glorify my body and fall in love with myself. Use your…
Physical fitness is a very important part in our lives. It enables us to perform up to our potential. Fitness can be described as a condition that helps us look, feel and do our best. More specifically, it is the “ability of the human body to function with vigor and alertness, without undue fatigue, and with ample energy to engage in leisure activities. Physical fitness involves the performance of the heart and lungs, and the muscles of the body. And, since what we do with our bodies also affects what we can do with our minds, fitness influences to some degree qualities such as mental alertness and emotional stability. Physical fitness is most easily understood by examining the four basic parts: Cardiorespiratory Endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance and flexibility. Cardiorespiratory Endurance is the ability to deliver oxygen and nutrients to tissues and to remove wastes over sustained periods of time. Long runs and swims are among the methods employed in measuring this component. Muscular strength is the ability of a muscle to exert force for a brief period of time. Muscular Endurance refers to the capacity of a muscle to exert a submaximal force through a given range of motion or at a single point over a given time. Flexibility is the ability of a joint to move through a full range of motion.…
Muscular endurance Muscular endurance similar to cardio respiratory endurance, muscular endurance has to do with just how much your muscles can take during a weight training session. Muscular endurance is closely related to what is described as “sports fitness” however it still is pertinent to health fitness because it goes a long way when it…
Healthy muscles are those that have been worked, stressed and pushed to their limit so that they can have enough power and strength to get you through life, especially as you grow older. And keeping muscles fit takes effort, which means regular training with weight lifting and exercise even if the results are not a sculptured look. If you don’t work your muscles, they will atrophy, especially as you grow older. Older people often fall because they are too weak to brace themselves, and they have trouble with steps and opening things because their muscles have lost so much strength.…
The best thing of all when it comes to working out is the strength and endurance. Strength allows one to carry out physical tasks, where endurance gives the ability to last. Besides having a better body, one will be able to do things they were incapable of doing before.…
Keeping Fit? Strength is the muscle's ability to exert force. Although we equate large muscles with strength, that is not necessarily so. Strength is not directly proportional to the size of a muscle. First, you need to decide which muscles you want to strengthen, then find the best way to exercise those muscles so they will respond with increased strength. Then keep increasing the weight load to challenge the muscles. For instance, add 1 pound now and another pound in a month, and so on. The more you load the muscles, the stronger they will become. Muscles respond quickly, providing you give them adequate rest and sound nutrition. Like drinking eight to ten glasses (eight ounce) of water each day. This will ensure your replacing fluids lost during exercise. You need not wait until you're thirsty. By then, you are in a depleted state. Drink these glasses throughout the day, not all at once. Eliminate junk food. Most fast food restaurants along with most pastries and processed foods contain high amounts of fat, sodium and sugars. The consumption of these foods will do little for your energy, except promote a high, than a low in your blood sugar levels. In addition they offer high levels of fat, usually the saturated type. And they quite often contain large amounts of water retaining sodium. None of these qualities are beneficial to any type of athlete.…
Muscular endurance is when a muscle or a group of muscles has the ability to sustain repetitive movement over an extended period of time; this is especially good for duathlon training as it is preparing your muscles to run and swim over an extended period. We applied this in our session by having 10 reps and 3 sets for each of our exercises and had a few exercises for each of the muscle groups which added to the endurance.…
2. Flexibility Exercises This refers to exercises that cause a range of motion in the joints of the body. Flexibility can be lost by those who remain in a sedentary position for extended periods of time like students, office workers, and T.V. viewers.…
4. Flexibility - Flexibility is the degree to which an individual muscle will lengthen. 5. Body Composition - Body composition is the amount of fat in the body compared to the amount of lean mass (muscle, bones etc.).…
Flexibility which means the ability to stretch the muscles beyond their normal limitations. …