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Morning Musings: June 11

Jun 11, 2024

And these adaptations keep occurring all of your life, no matter how old you get.  95 year olds who went on a 3 month reisistance training program increased their strength by an average or 75%.  Wheelchair bound seniors went to […]

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Morning Musings: June 10

Jun 10, 2024

When you do high intensity cardio that makes you breathe heavily, you increase the stroke volume of your heart.   With every pump your heart pumps out more blood so your heart rate under exertion will actually decrease as you get […]

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Morning Musings: June 9

Jun 9, 2024

Doing fat burning exercise makes more fat burning enzymes.   You make more of something called hormone sensitive lipase, and then when you do more fat burning exercise (like take a walk), you will notice that you don’t get winded as […]

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Morning Musings: June 8

Jun 8, 2024

When you are in shape (and adequately rested and fueled, by the way) “the burn” actually does feel sort of good, and sometimes exhilarating.  At least, it is not as unpleasant as it is when you are not in shape.  […]

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Morning Musings: June 7

Jun 7, 2024

When you lift weights or do any kind of resistance training, you give your body more places to store sugar.  To begin with they are sugar burning exercises, so you use the sugar already stored in your muscles and make […]

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Morning Musings: June 6

Jun 6, 2024

Your body becomes what you ask it to do.  If you act like a fat and sugar storer (i.e. couch potato), your body will become just that.  If you want it to be a fat and sugar burner, you can […]

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Morning Musings: June 5

Jun 5, 2024

Exercise actually teaches your body to be ho-hum about the stress chemicals.  Since the chemicals released when you exercise are the same ones that you release when you are stressed (same fight or flight response whether you are emotionally stressed […]

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Morning Musings: June 4

Jun 4, 2024

Not exercising because I am too stressed is factually illogical.  Exercise uses stress chemicals.  So, saying that I am too stressed to exercise makes no scientific sense at all.  The very best thing I could do to alleviate that feeling […]

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Morning Musings: June 3

Jun 3, 2024

Three days of no exercise is the kiss of death for me.  Short of surgery, there has virtually been no other time that I couldn’t figure out some way to do something for three whole days.   I don’t know why […]

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Morning Musings: June 2

Jun 2, 2024

I can always glom onto someone else’s momentum if I need to – temporarily at least.  I can get myself started that way and start to generate my own head of steam.  Sometimes (more often than not in my personal […]

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