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Christmas party at Muscle Gallery
Dec 15th
Last night I was at christmas party of my friend Ulrich who is the owner of the
Muscle Gallery.
His parties are always great.
Party was fun. Food was fabulous. And best of it if you wanted to stay on diet he offered healthy food as well, all good gourmet bodybuilding food. He made sure that his models have a top quality food so they can stay in top shape. Sure he had everything else on menu.
He is a official host of Night of Champions After Party. His parties are always crazy good.
After that I went to another christmas party of another friend of mine who just decorated new store of Abercrombie and Fitch at Fifth Avenue.
You will see his paintings if you ever walk into that store. Mark is a great artist. Check out this painting he made at Fifth Avenue Abercrombie store.
Tomorrow Im going to two more parties. I love Christmas!
Men Easier To Please With Regard To Body Image Than Women
Dec 12th
Based on the study from McMaster University, men are easier to please with the results in the gym.
Men are just lucky if they get stronger in the gym and feel their pants are fitting better. But how about the women?
Well they want the proof. You gotta prove them that they lost body fat to make them happy. For women it is not enough just to see that they can lift heavier weight. They want the real proof. So if you are a personal trainer, better meassure the body fat percentage if you want your women clients happy. They like to see the proof (truth).
Kathleen Martin Ginis, associate professor of kinesiology:
“We thought – obviously incorrectly – that women’s body image would improve more than men’s as they progressed through the strength training study,” Martin Ginis said. “We were surprised by the responsiveness of men’s body image to strength training. Men’s body image improved as much as women’s. Yet interestingly, men didn’t care about numbers–how much weight they actually lost or how much muscle they actually gained had no bearing on their body image; if they simply felt more muscular and stronger, or if their pants were looser, that was good enough to improve their body image. But when it came to the women, feeling thinner and stronger was only part of the story. The women who had the greatest improvements in body image were those who saw actual increases in the amount of weight they could lift at the gym.”
Women believe only that they are beautiful, if one says clearly to them and prove them with numbers.
Body rented from Hertz
Dec 9th
Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz — something
they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about
understanding. – Chungliang Al Huang
I like this quotation a lot.
And from my point of view it it true. Some people really do not care a lot about their bodies. They do not care about the food they put in their mouth. They threat it
like it is rented, but when the sickness comes they try to find out what went wrong and trying to find a pill that will cure it.
Spiritual Fitness motivation
Dec 7th
“Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on
motivation.”
– Dalai Lama
Wine Doesn’t Help Your Heart as Previously Believed
Dec 5th
Belinda Linden, head of medical information at the British Heart Foundation says the study suggests that light to moderate alcohol consumption may only give a small amount of protection against coronary heart disease, while the benefits of moderate to heavy drinking are likely to be outweighed by the overall harm that alcohol can cause.
She also says there does not appear to be any evidence to suggest that light to moderate alcohol consumption will actually harm the heart, however over indulging can have an adverse effect on your health.
Linden says people should not be encouraged to start drinking specifically to protect their heart, as there are much safer options and their advice remains that the best way to reduce the risk of heart disease is to quit smoking if you smoke, increase levels of physical activity and eat a healthy balanced diet.
Reference:That glass of wine or two may not be so good for you!
Hot spicy foods raise metabolism
Dec 3rd
Hot spicy foods raise your metabolism. And because of that body will burn more calories.
Eat chilli peppers, jalapenos, cayenne peppers …
Well this is not a myth like many people think.
Capsaicin is contained in chilli peppers.
Capsaicin energizes the gastric juice glands and ensures that harmful bacteria in the digestive tract is killed.
In addition the red peppers bring stomach and intestine in momentum and provide better food digesting.
Research also shows that cayenne peppers increase production of epinephrine and norepinephrine which together decrease appetite.
Fat cells explained. Fat cells are destroying your health
Dec 1st
Fat cells are killing us because they cause diseases.
Did you know that fat cells send signals that promote blood vessel and cell growth, which could help explain why fat gain increases the risk of cancer. Obesity is linked to diabetes and cancer. We heard it in news so many times. But why is that? How fat cells are damaging our bodies?
An adult has between 40 and 120 billion fat cells, depends on the body structure.
In every fat cell we find one drop of oil that is used as energy storage for hunger times. What else can we find in fat cells? Anything else? There are hormones, inflammation substances and many more substances. Scientist identified about 100 different substances in fett cells. Many of them play a role with
inflammations (example: Zytokine) or with the regulatation of the blood pressure (Angiotensin II).
Why is this important?
Fat is the biggest endocrine organ in the body.
Many overweight people have large numbers of fat cells and those cells hold many substances. And many of those substances are harmful in higher concentration. They can cause inflammation in your body.
Fat cells are also an important control unit for many organs. Example: Fat cells are signaling muscles when they can burn fat.
Beyond that fat cells are important control units for many metabolic procedures in your body, they affect the function of the brain,
the liver, the pancreas and the immune system.
The fatty tissue plays a very important role as a hormone producer and controls long term fertility and energy balance.
Fat cells produce powerful substances called tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-a), and interleukin-6 (IL-6), which help regulate the immune system.
An important hormone, which is formed in fat cells, is Leptin (discovered 10 years ago).
If leptin levels are high in your blood, it signals a saturation feeling to the brain. If the levels of leptin sink, it signals hunger.
Many of the substances discovered in fat cells seem to play the role of messenger in your body, with whose assistance fat cells with other organs communicate.
When you are in a good shape and you have normal weight, it seems everything to works perfectly within your body so the fat cells can communicate with other organs.
But what happens when we are overweight?
Giant fat cells produce to many messenger substances and can overflow other body signals. Example what can happen: insulin does not work correctly any longer.
What happens with excessively increased fat cells?
It begins mass production of inflammation materials.
Obesity leads to chronic inflammation.
What else happens withing the body?
Fat cells cause insulin resistance.
Many of the inflammation materials from the fat cells are causing the insulin resistance to.
As you can see fat cells are a whole complex system. They are not just a passive organ! Not just that they look ugly, make us look ugly, they have ugly consequences for our health.
Especially is bad for your health to have a lot of fat around waist area.
Those fat cells around your abs are very activ. They produce
free fatty acids, inflammation materials and blood pressure increasing materials. So if you have a lot of fat around your belly, it is time to lose it. You can see what fat can do to your health. It can ruin it.
I hope that I did not scare you a lot. There is some good news: The production of the substances in fat cells can be reversed with the right diet and exercise. If fat cells become smaller and you lose them, than the production of the health dangerous substances is reduced.
And on the end I would like to add an opinion from a professor of genetics and metabolism at the Harvard School of Public Health:
“Many people think your brain controls your fat. We promote the idea that your fat controls your brain.”
Funny Training Video: deadlift
Nov 30th
This video is so funny, gotta check it out. My friend sent to me a link.
Video Deadlifts
I hope this guy did not hurt himself!
Exercise and fitness motivation
Nov 27th
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical exercise saves it and preserves it.
- Plato
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound gods.”
- JFK
Weight training is the best for fat burning
Nov 26th
German scientists at Institut for prevention and aftercare compared weight training to pilates, power-yoga, step aerobic, latino dance class and spinning. They wanted to see what works the best for fat burning.
Results: You will burn the most fat with weight training (percentage of the relative fat burn is 50% for a whole body weight training, spinning 49,2%; pilates: 43,3%). As you can see the best way to attack fat would be to get into the gym and start working out with weights. Weight training is the best tool you can have for the weight loss. There is no way around it if you want to lose weight.
