Health
Depending on your genetics your body will hold fat in different areas!
A lot of times it doesn’t seam to come of where we want it …
If you are like me and your body is holding on to abdominal fat ( stored energy), it will take extra time to trim that part down!
Clients with larger midsection and smaller arms and legs have a hard time building while trimming down that part!
And it is a little easier for men than for women to do so!
The reason for this is testosterone and muscle!
Men have greater amount of muscle, are lower in body fat to begin with and have ( much) higher testosterone levels!
Plan of action:
I will ask my female clientele what is more important to them to do first….?
Lowering abdominal fat, or gaining leg muscle?
The answer is always lowering abdominal fat!
Which means lower all carbohydrates and fat intake!
Cutting all sugars (including fruit) and alcohol completely !
Lowering overal caloric intake!
Once abdominal fat is gone, increase clean carbs slightly ( while monitoring body fat), increasing overal caloric intake!
It is a step by step process…
So what about woman that are endomorph build?
Small upper body, small waist, big butt and legs…?
Overtraining legs in low weight, high reps to
Break down excess muscle!
Density training to take care of intramuscular fat tissue, while keeping the diet low in fat, starch, and calories especially on leg days!!!
Lower back fat has a lot to do with alcohol intake!
Don’t want love handles?
Stop those cocktails 😉
As in everything we do, it takes time for change!!!
Whether it is gaining muscle, losing body fat, changing genetics….
Positive about this is that it can be done 😉
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I think humans are programmed for addictions!
We all have them 😉
Alcohol and drug addictions!
Exercise addictions.
Food addiction…
Nicotine …
Addiction to computers and cell phones…
Text and email…
Medication…
Your favorite hobby…
The list goes on and on…
We are amazing as human beings and fragile in our existence!
Our every day world is tough and stressful!
Sometimes it gets hard to compensate or destress .
We reach for medication, alcohol and drugs to help us compensate for our feelings and fears!
We are told that this is what we have to do…
How did our ancestors deal with stress?
First… They did not have to deal with what our society has to deal with in our time!
Second …food provided much more nutrition to feed and ease stress receptors!
Severe addiction will not go away and disappear!
Severe addiction will only change into another addiction!
It can be to something not much better as medication, or it can change into being addicted to another person (relationship)!
Maybe it will change into the addiction to exercise (which I have witnessed before)!
The first step towards getting better is:
1. Recognize the problem.
2. Plan out your recovery.
3. Keep strong and do not give in ( takes 2 weeks to feel better)
4. Keep your nutrition and supplements 100% on track
5. Ask for help!!!
Think of reasons why you want to get better ( family, kids, husband, job, yourself, your future…)
Don’t take short cuts ( changing from drugs or alcohol to meds), don’t use excuses why you didn’t stick with it!
This is about your health, your well being, your life!!!
Just do it 😉
I’ve been helping clients with Myofascial release and trigger point treatment for a while!
However I am starting to understand more and more what the connection is, how it all comes together and der fore how I can be of better help!
Jim has been using me to help with his flexibility for a while now.
We’ve been working a lot around his knee joint and connecting muscle to regain flexibility and strength after a knee replacement !
Jim is a runner and extremely fit, but has bad posture!
Lately I’ve noticed his posture getting worse!
Head extremely protruded towards the front, shoulders shrug up and caving in to the front, lower back very arched ….
While lying on his back his chin is facing up, which is an indication of very tight neck muscles as well.
I started to release some of his pectorial tightness by compressing on the tight fascia at the pectorial / shoulder attachement while rotating his arm ( positioned into 90 degrees) up and down…
I also worked on the connection of his sternoclydomastoid ( collar bone and head)!
Which were very much important points to work
on, but when I started compressing the medial quad attachment we’ve noticed a big release….
Jim told me that he immediately was breathing better and deeper!!!
So I’ve come to the conclusion that because of years of compensating for his bad knee, Jim’s kinetic chain has changed and catered to that compensation!
This made the anterior fascia so tight that quad and hip flexor (also extremely tight) pulls on his pelvis, rotating his pelvis to the front and causing extrem lordosis of his lower back, keeping all fascia tight including abdominal, pectorial, deltoid , and interfering with his lung capacity!
Constantly over stretching posterior fascia like hamstring, gluteus, quatrateus lumborum, latismus, trapezius muscles….
His tightness on his scaleens and sternoclydomastoid
has in parts to do with his tight intracostal muscles, which are responsible for breathing.
Those muscles lift your rip cage with every breath, and when tight , our neck muscles will take over!!!
Plan of action is to:
A.) strengthen back muscles, hams, trapz
B.) stretching front muscles chest, quads, hip flexors
C.) changing workout routine until posture changes and continuing to work on finding better balance 🙂
Watch your posture and changes of posture!
Try to adjust right away before more severe issues show up!
Our connective tissue is articulate, which means it is communicating ….
We have to teach our nervouse system to give the right signals to make it work in synergy!
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