We live in the era of 'fradulent fitness'. Thats what I tell my colleagues and friends. Fitness frauds are only too happy to supply the public the miracle products they demand. The biggest myth in all of fitness is that magical products exist that can build muscle and melt off body fat with the greatest of ease.
Anytime a so called 'fitness expert' tells you that building muscle or shedding fat can be made easy, be aware that you are being manipulated into making a possible purchase. The fitness product pushers produce products that promise exactly what the public wants to hear, by buying 'breakthrough' products, you will magically be able to eliminate all the toil, tears, teeth-grinding effort and tough work required to trigger a true transformation. Sounds too good too be true right? Pop a pill for days, and you will lose pounds of fat from your body.
Now, let me ask you. Do you think calorie counting diet works? How about exhausting exercise routines? Do they all work long term? Yes, you may lose some pounds within that few weeks or months, but you will eventually bounce back to square one, if worst, you will end up gaining more pounds then before you even start off that program. Sounds familiar? The truth is that calorie counting diet and exhausting exercise routines don't work in a long run.
I have another question. How many fitness trainers that you know, explains to you on how your hormones affects the type of exercise or workout you do? Or do they just keep instructing you to curl that barbell, do crunches or even worst, advises you to join the RPM cycling class! Yeah yeah, I know you think that sweating your ass off on that RPM bike will burn lots of calories and fat and 45 to 60 mins of that session would turn out to be a great exercise session. If so, my next question throws to you. Why do most RPM intructors fail to have low body fat composition? The two RPM instructors in the gym I joined, both of them have mediocre to slightly high body fat, and that does not fits the puzzle properly. It doesn't make sense at all.
Why is that so? Simple. Let's look at evolution and human metabolism. We can we learn from our primal ancestors? Gene expression and how we challenge our metabolism. It is NOT about burning calories and working out as long as you could for hours! One don't have to be a genius to figure out why world class sprinters have lower body fat and much more muscle mass then endurance athletes such as marathon runners and cyclists. Whatever types of exercise or workout we do, it DEFINITELY affects our hormones pathway, and with that, it changes our body's metabolism state.
Now, let's talk brieftly about anabolism and catabolism. How much do you know about anabolic and catabolic? When I ask fitness trainers, they all give wrong answers, and best of all, most of them (hired by the same gym outlet) gave different explanation/answers. I was shocked! How can one be fitness trainer and not knowing these fundamentals?
Your life, biologically speaking, is defined by your metabolism. The process of turning matter into energy and energy back into matter is what makes a living creature superior to any mechanical machine. Our human body, is programmed to recreate itself every minute of our life.Substances in the form of air, food, water, carbon dioxide and waste, are constantly moving in and out of our body. The process by which material is built is called anabolism, and the process by which material is broken down and removed from the body, is called catabolism. It is the balance between the anabolic and catabolic forces that regulate our body fat, muscle mass, rate of aging and overall health. Both anabolism and catabolism are critical to our survival and both these processess work together, activating and potentiating each other.
Like many other forces that are necessary to sustain life, anabolic and catabolic processes are naturally regulated in your body through negative feedback mechanisms, a most efficient form of biological control that regulates the balance between two opposing forces. Many, if not most of the body's life functions, such as the regulation of blood sugar, stabilization of blood pressure, assimilation of nutrients, and the stimulation of hormone synthesis are based on a negative feedback control.
Well, most life processes occur in cycles. the body maintains its homeostasis through a negative feedback control system that cycles continually among antagonistic forces that influence our capacity to survive. The anabolic and catabolic processes regulate each other through these numerous negative feedback loops. Hormones levels, cellular energy levels, and overall nutritional states are all factors that dictate whether your body builds and repairs tissue or destroys, recycles, burns or removes material.
Your life, biologically speaking, is defined by your metabolism. The process of turning matter into energy and energy back into matter is what makes a living creature superior to any mechanical machine. Our human body, is programmed to recreate itself every minute of our life.Substances in the form of air, food, water, carbon dioxide and waste, are constantly moving in and out of our body. The process by which material is built is called anabolism, and the process by which material is broken down and removed from the body, is called catabolism. It is the balance between the anabolic and catabolic forces that regulate our body fat, muscle mass, rate of aging and overall health. Both anabolism and catabolism are critical to our survival and both these processess work together, activating and potentiating each other.
Like many other forces that are necessary to sustain life, anabolic and catabolic processes are naturally regulated in your body through negative feedback mechanisms, a most efficient form of biological control that regulates the balance between two opposing forces. Many, if not most of the body's life functions, such as the regulation of blood sugar, stabilization of blood pressure, assimilation of nutrients, and the stimulation of hormone synthesis are based on a negative feedback control.
Well, most life processes occur in cycles. the body maintains its homeostasis through a negative feedback control system that cycles continually among antagonistic forces that influence our capacity to survive. The anabolic and catabolic processes regulate each other through these numerous negative feedback loops. Hormones levels, cellular energy levels, and overall nutritional states are all factors that dictate whether your body builds and repairs tissue or destroys, recycles, burns or removes material.
For instance, does anyone know that resistance training is actually a catabolic activity that tears muscle fibers? This catabolic activity triggers an anabolic process by which the body repairs and builds stronger muscles that can handle more stress. For that matters, a notice trainee who has just started lifting weights will most likely experience fast gain in muscularity and strength.
Interestingly, just the opposite may occur when a person maximizes his or her anabolic potential. Trained bodybuilders and powerlifters who have achieved peak muscular development are the ones most likely to face the risk of muscle waste or reach stagnation point after which they fail to gain more muscle mass or strength. Those active individuals who experience muscle loss surprisingly gain back due so called "muscle memory".
It seems clear that the body has its own muscle mass set point. It will try to sustain this set point by regulating muscle gain or muscle loss accordingly. People often feel that they are getting weaker in spite of adhering to a diet and exercise routine. What they don't realize is that at a peak anabolic state, the body's catabolic activity increases as if it is trying to shrink the body down to its normal size. Nevertheless, in spite of the above limitations, it is still possible to break plateaus, grind limits and activate a most powerful anabolic state. The question is how?
By following a special dietary cycle that methodically induces a temporary catabolic state, which will then stimulate an anabolic potential that if materialized properly will prohibit the body from reaching a stagnation point. In the next post, I will discuss about how we could maximize maximum growth potential and how to turn growth potential into muscle gain.
Interestingly, just the opposite may occur when a person maximizes his or her anabolic potential. Trained bodybuilders and powerlifters who have achieved peak muscular development are the ones most likely to face the risk of muscle waste or reach stagnation point after which they fail to gain more muscle mass or strength. Those active individuals who experience muscle loss surprisingly gain back due so called "muscle memory".
It seems clear that the body has its own muscle mass set point. It will try to sustain this set point by regulating muscle gain or muscle loss accordingly. People often feel that they are getting weaker in spite of adhering to a diet and exercise routine. What they don't realize is that at a peak anabolic state, the body's catabolic activity increases as if it is trying to shrink the body down to its normal size. Nevertheless, in spite of the above limitations, it is still possible to break plateaus, grind limits and activate a most powerful anabolic state. The question is how?
By following a special dietary cycle that methodically induces a temporary catabolic state, which will then stimulate an anabolic potential that if materialized properly will prohibit the body from reaching a stagnation point. In the next post, I will discuss about how we could maximize maximum growth potential and how to turn growth potential into muscle gain.
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