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Fitness Facts YOU’LL LOVE!!!

Posted by Maria Kang on July 31st, 2007

I found this while doing some research lastnight. Enhance your fitness knowledge by reading through these facts!!! I don’t know where I found it so I apologize for lack of source :-(

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1. Use it or lose it. By age 65, people who haven’t’ engaged in regular exercise may incur a decrease in their muscular strength level by as much as 80%

2. Make your move. A muscle moves by contracting and by its motion, you move. As a machine for moving, a muscle is pretty efficient, using about 35-50% of its potential energy.

 

3. The human body has more than 650 muscles.

4. Watch your step. Forward locomotion such as walking or running is actually the process of losing and catching one’s balance.

5. The cellulite myth. There is no such thing as cellulite. The skin sometimes appears lumpy in fatty areas of the body because strands on connective tissue attach the skin to underlying structures. These points of attachment may pull tight where the fat is thick, making lumps appear between them. The fat itself is not different from excess fat anywhere else in the body; so, if you reduce body fat, you will begin to lose the lumpy appearance.

6. Spot reducing de-bunked. Spot reducing will not reduce the fat itself in a specific area of the body. Strength training specific areas of the body will strengthen the underlying muscle, but fat reduction is only accomplished by burning more calories than you take in.

7. The cardiovascular chain. Your body has approximately 60,000 miles of blood vessels that not only oxygenate the tissues of the body and unburden them of waste, but also exact as stringent regulators of the body’s environment.

8. Stressful miles. If you are 25 lbs. overweight, you have nearly 5,000 extra miles of blood vessels through which your heart must pump blood.

9. Taking a break. Your heart rests between each beat. Over a normal lifespan, your heart stands still for about 20 years.

10. Now that’s pressure. Your blood rushes through your arteries with enough pressure to lift a column of blood 5 feet into the air.

11. Safety valves. When you stand up, if you didn’t have valves in your veins, all the blood in your body would literally fall downward, filling up your feet and legs.

More than 650 muscles?!!! That’s crrrazzzy!! You are in control of a machine greater than any machine a science could replicate. Make use of it and MOVE!!!!


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