Come to the Muscle, Fat and Rest Days Workshop on March 11th!
Understanding Muscle, Fat and Rest Days
Have you ever wanted to become more intentional about your health, wellness, and fitness? Understanding the biology behind the strength you’re building can allow you to find the intention you might be missing!
Muscles
The Science:
- Endurance exercise utilizes primarily slow twitch muscle fibers, leading to angiogenesis (wooowww fancy word!)
- Resistance training utilizes primarily fast twitch muscle fibers, leading to increased myofibril formation.
- Stretching lengthens the muscle fibers, leading to a decrease in neural pain signaling over time.
Why should you care?
- Endurance training trains the muscles for maintained contraction with minimal fatigue.
- Increased myofibrils = increased muscle mass
- Lengthened muscle fibers = increased flexibility, reduced risk of injury, increased circulation
Fat
The Science:
- Our bodies reverse energy in adipose tissue, like a squirrel puts extra acorns in its cheeks. 🙂
- Lipids are oxidized in exercise, which is what we know to be “burning fat.”
Why should you care?
- If weight loss or weight maintenance is a goal of yours, it is SOOO important to understand the process by which that goal can be attained.
- More understanding can encourage realistic and long-term lifestyle changes that can improve health, wellness, and fitness without struggling with fad-dieting, disordered eating, fraudulent supplements, etc.
Rest Days
The Science:
Fibroblasts are the construction workers on the scene to repair muscle breakdown, which occurs during exercise!
Why should you care?
- Fibroblasts need time to exert effects on muscle tissue, allowing for reinforced, stronger muscle tissue with more mass to be created.
- Allowing muscles to rebuild reduces risk of injury and sets the body up for increased muscle mass and energy!
