Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Concept for Fitness Exercises

God has carefully formed this body and has sent us on the earth. However, while living in the world, we often face situations that we are not ought to face. I am not talking about something like encounter with a dinosaur. I mean that our body or some of its parts sometimes undergo certain adverse situations. At such times, our body feels pain, either at a particular place or in the whole body. This is where fitness comes into play. The more fit you are, the harsher situations you can tolerate. And what keeps you really fit is really critical to answer; however, physical exercises help you to gain fitness.

Do you know what you do when you exercise? Precisely to speak, in conjunction with burning your calories, you actually give some threat to your muscles. How? Let's see.
We have been designed such that the more we use something, the more it develops. You must have heard about the neck of a giraffe. It grew longer because it tried pulling it higher to reach high vegetations. But don't try that. It did that for generations. You'll not run as fast as a cheetah in this life. But yes, you can obviously attain a good level of fitness if you make it a regular habit to exercise. Still curious about how exercise means threatening one's body?
When we exercise, we give an overload to our body or some of its muscles. However, we don't develop them all in a day.

Our body has mechanisms other than growth and development to tackle surge ups in strains on any part. Otherwise, we would gain muscles on the shoulder if we just carried a heavy bag for a few hours. It is after several days of regular exercises that our body gets conveyed, or what I called, threatened that the muscles will have to undergo endure great stress everyday; and then the muscles grow. This growth occurs by the growth in the number of muscular cells of the part. This is called antagonistic exercise.

There is yet another type of exercises called syngonistic exercises. These exercises obviously don't give us that macho man shape, but are substantially helpful in conferring fitness. People do this kind of exercises to keep fit. This includes running, hopping, etc. These exercises burn your calories. Now let's understand how they burn your fats. Fats are the stored form of energy. When your body does exercises or any work, it needs energy. The body provides this energy from the starch and glycogen after converting them to glucose. However, when you work harder and your body starves of glucose, it starts using the fat stored to derive energy. So, in order to keep your fitness level sound, you must do either kind of exercise daily.

Some of you may, however try escaping this often irritating job of exercising, saying either that they are too busy, or that they want to build their brain. Let me remind the adage to them that "In healthy body lives a healthy mind".

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