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Did you know that . . .
. . . exercise is catabolic?
People often fail to realize that physical activity creates metabolic fatigue. When too much metabolic stress kicks up, performance begins to deteriorate due to muscles not being fueled properly. Over time, this creates a catabolic environment in your body—one which is suitable for muscle breakdown or atrophy.
While exercise is arguably one of the best solutions to a healthy body, it serves no purpose when there’s no fuel to perform. So, an anabolic environment is desired instead. This is an environment which is suitable for the replacement of fatty layers in your body with leaner tissue.
While the term “anabolic” is commonly associated to steroid use, the more proper association needs to be focused on metabolic efficiency. In other words, by staying anabolic before, during and after exercise, your body’s tendency of storing calories as fat decreases. This is one of the main reasons why smaller, frequent meals throughout the day help an individual stay leaner and perform better, regardless of their physical goals.
. . . exercise and ego don’t mix?
One thing that’s really annoying is how ego and pride have become dominating measures of good performance. More specifically, people often associate more time spent or weight used with a productive workout. The annoying part about this is when those specific time and weight quantities are casually thrown around in conversation with peers, often in a bragging sort of way.
While there’s nothing wrong with being proud of yourself for doing more work, there is a problem when “more work” becomes the daily expectation. This expectation is the driving force behind an egotistical character at the gym. An egotistical person fails to acknowledge the fact that the human body is very dynamic, and exercise performance varies on a daily basis. They don’t account for the external stresses like work, lack of sleep or relationship problems that will invariably effect the quality of a workout. This is one of the main reasons why quality conquers quantity measures in life.
. . . exercise variety can sometimes be counterproductive?
While a workout with lots of exercises may look good on paper, too much variety may lead to poor performance. Moreover, the quality of a workout can often suffer when people fail to realize what works best for them. Instead of focusing on the how many muscle groups you hit, ask yourself if your workout was really efficient in terms of exercise range-of-motion.
There’s much to be accomplished by the majority of the American population when exercises with larger ranges-of-motion become the major concentration of their workouts. More specifically, by including no more three main exercises
per session – deadlift or squat, bench press, and rowing variations – people can attack many muscles at once while revealing their strengths and weaknesses. Having less exercises to perform during a workout can also boost personal motivation, to not only maintain better rep quality, but potentially increase their frequency of training.
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