Lift Your Way to Stronger Bones

Can you exercise your way to stronger bones….OH YES! Despite what your grandma told you, picking up those weights is what’s going to keep those bones strong and healthy more so than aerobic exercise as research shows that resistance training has a positive effect on bone density.

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Exercise Myth vs Truth

Myth: Men respond better to strength training because they get stronger faster when compared to women

Truth: under proper programming, women see increases in their strength at the same rate or faster. ⠀

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Lifting Weights with Hypertension

Do you have hypertension and lift weights? Then this post is VERY important. ⠀
If you have high blood pressure you should avoid heavy resistance training (try and keep it no higher than 80-85% of your 1RM) as heavy resistance training on its own increases your blood pressure. So pairing your own high blood pressure with the effects of heavy weight training could lead to negative vascular events such as stroke or heart attack. You also want to avoid the valsalva maneuver as holding your breath while lifting can also increase your blood pressure. One exercise you should consider throwing out of your programming completely if you’re hypertensive is the leg press because it utilizes the activity of a lot of large muscles (lower body) under heavy loading and yields no functional purpose. Therefore risk outweighs benefits. ⠀

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Are you considered obese?

women are considered obese when they have a body fat of 32%, and men when their body fat is at 25%. Obesity puts you at an increased risk for disease through low grade inflammation.⠀
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Exercise may help fight obesity by tipping the energy balance in an individuals favor as well as reducing circulating cytokines associated with development of atherosclerosis, diabetes, and inflammation. Exercise also reduces the accumulation of visceral fat storage, which is the primary cause of adipokine dysfunction.⠀

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Health vs Fitness

Todays blog post literally copy and pasting off an old lecture so y’all don’t think I’m nuts when I tell you that health and fitness are NOT the same thing.⠀

-“Health and wellness are factors of disease free living with positive controls over physiological measures.”⠀
-“Fitness is defined by quantifiable measures of physical components broken down into health and performance related components.”⠀
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“A person can be healthy, but not fit in the same way a person can score well in fitness testing and not be as healthy as a person with lower scores in the same test.”

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Exercise and Disease Management

Ever wonder what risk factors are actually connected to diseases? Well let’s take a look at obesity, physical inactivity, and low cardiovascular efficiency as they are 3 risk factors that can be avoided through exercise.⠀
-Obesity is linked to heart disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis, stroke, and diabetes⠀
-Physical inactivity is linked to all of the above except for stroke.⠀
-Low cardiovascular efficiency is linked to heart disease, hypertension, and stroke⠀

Get Moving in 2019!

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What the heck is Metabolic Syndrome?

Have you ever heard the doctor tell you that you have metabolic syndrome or you are at risk to developing it, but you have no idea what is means? Well, you get classified as having metabolic syndrome if you meet one or more of the following criteria⠀
1. Males with body fat greater than 25% and Females with body fat greater than 32%⠀
2. a Waist circumference greater than 102CM (men) and greater than 88CM (women)⠀
3. LDL cholesterol greater than 135 mg/dl⠀
4. HDL cholesterol lower than 40 mg/dl (men) and 50 mg/dl (women)⠀
5. A blood glucose level greater than 100 mg/dl⠀
6. Blood Pressure greater than 130/85 mmHG⠀
7. Triglycerides greater than 150 mg/dl⠀
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So if any of those sound like your recent trip to the doctors office, you should have been trying to take control of your health. BUT the good news is, it is NOT too late!⠀

Let me help you improve your health in 2019! LetlerFit@gmail.com

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Got Genetics?

We’ve all heard people say “oh it’s genetics” But how much does genetics actually affect us? 25-40% of what happens to us is not in our control. What we can control is our behavior and our environment. Genetics determines our potential capabilities as well as what we are at risk to developing or more susceptible to. It also influences the way our physiology adapts to exercise and our physiological occurrences. ⠀
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However, by no means can we use genetics as an excuse for diabetes when all you eat is processed sugar.⠀

 

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Exercise is NOT One Size Fits All

Exercise is NOT one size fits all. Yes, I have my fitness guides, but I advertise them as general guides. I preach that they do not compare to personalized fitness, but I’m also aware that not everyone cares for personalized attention. But it’s important to note that exercise is something that should be done on a personal level. Because while our bodies are the same at their roots, life, genetics, and daily activities make your needs different compared to someone else’s needs.⠀
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And please, don’t fall for the fit stars who hire people who don’t know what they’re doing to be your trainer, while they sit back and collect the bucks. Or the trainers that copy and paste programs from body building.com. Or even the ones that use the same “personalized” program for everyone.⠀
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Do your HOMEWORK! and know that when you train with me on a personal level online or in person, you’re getting ME and 100% customized programs based on your goals and the results of your needs analysis.

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Something in Your Body Keeping you From the Gym?

Have any of these problems, I have a possible solution!⠀
Hypertension-Go for weight loss and improved cardiovascular relationship⠀
Diabetes-Go For Weight Loss and Total Body Activity⠀
High Body Fat-Reduce body fat with exercise that has high caloric expenditure⠀
Low Back Pain-Improved Range of Motion, Improve Trunk:Hip Muscle Balance⠀
Muscle Imbalances- Target Strength Activity ⠀
Low Cardiovascular Fitness-Increase daily aerobic activity⠀
Muscle Weakness- Total Body Strengthening Activities⠀
Poor Flexibility-Increase Range of Motion in Deficient Areas⠀

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