WHAT DO WE WANT FROM EXERCISE?
For many years the idea of exercise has been shaped around the notion that if we just “get moving” we can burn calories, improve cardiovascular health, and tone muscles. The prescription has been the same for decades: eat less, move more, exercise for at least 45 to 60 minutes four to seven days a week.
There’s just one problem, this doesn’t work! If you gauge the effectiveness of these recommendations by realizing people exercise more than ever, our nation’s obsession with dieting is greater than ever before, and $2.6 billion dollars per year is spent by Americans on gym memberships and personal training, yet obesity, type II diabetes, and inflammatory-related conditions remain in our society.
INSANITY IS DEFINED AS DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND EXPECTING A DIFFERENT RESULT
The prevailing sentiment with exercise remains the same. While every other industry in our country has seen improvements regarding effectiveness and efficiency, exercise and dietary recommendations have continued to be ineffective and inefficient for more than 40 years.
Since The Exercise Coach®’s inception 16 years ago, there has finally been a different, and evolutionary approach to exercise / fat loss and health improvements – all centered on the most critical goal in improving the things which matter most to us – muscle quality.
If we take the approach with “calories in/calories out” isn’t the solution and look how muscle quality can improve our quality of life and decrease inflammation in our body, we open ourselves up to a new horizon for more effective and efficient physical wellness.
MUSCULAR STRENGTH HAS THE GREATEST IMPACT ON THE LONGEVITY OF LIFE
Muscles have been called the windows to every system of the body. If we start with this premise, we can see how transformative whole effort exercise can be so meaningful.
AS MUSCLE QUALITY IMPROVES SO DO THE FOLLOWING:
- Our body’s ability to lose fat and reduce the risk of obesity and type II diabetes by improving glucose metabolism and insulin sensitivity.
- Cardiovascular function and oxygen uptake in the body. This enhancement leads to lower blood pressure and takes stress off the heart.
- Our skeletal system, because demanding greater load on our muscles leads to stronger tendons and stronger bones.
- Our gastrointestinal tract and the ability to digest food and filter out nutrition while helping the waste exit our bodies.
- Our endocrine system and the ability to properly balance the production and release of anabolic and catabolic hormones.
- Our body’s ability to deal with inflammation and the host of chronic disease.
- Our body’s ability to actually slow down and, in some cases, reverse the aging process as well as keep us living a fully functional life.
- Neurological activity and motor unit recruitment. This means we can use more muscle fibers, which in turn leads to greater capacity for increased muscular growth, and a greater ability to improve glucose metabolism.
The choice is yours to make, and at The Exercise Coach®, we can help. Visit exercisecoach.com/north-mesa or call (480) 716-6080.