@AlexC
Ronald Reagan wrote in his memoir that he came up with brilliant ideas while riding his horse on his ranch.
I don’t know if it was the horse imparting these ideas to him or the moderate use of leg muscles (to prevent from falling), but leg muscles are important.
Leg muscles are more powerful than arm muscles (because legs constantly have to sustain the body weight) and kicks can be more devastating than punches in karate.
As for the article, a rule of thumb is, Don’t take anything you can’t pronounce.
It’s a shame for your injury.
I started in the gym about seven weeks ago and a week after I started a rather large lady (I would guess just on 300 lbs) and rather colourful (loud) came in and spent about an hour with a trainer going through the pieces of equipment she should use. They seemed to agree she could do a lot with upper body.
I heard her (and so did the upper floor ) telling him she hadn’t worked out for many years due to her damaging her legs in a car accident. This lady has trained often when I have been in there now for 6 weeks and the transformation is already amazing. She seems to have benefitted more than most simply because she was so big and noticeably she has dropped in physical size but it is her training intensity that has amazed me most. She is now in there for at least 2 hour sessions and already she is using some of the leg equipment she told the trainer (f*ck off I’m not doing that ) on the first day I saw her. I like being in there the days she is, as I feel inspired to do that one extra set.
If you have the facilities available maybe with an instructor to advise how to protect your dodgy knee it might be worth you having a few sessions in the gym to work on other body parts.
You might just experience that feeling once again !!! It seems all the more rewarding if we overcome an inner fight telling ourselves no I can’t do it (as I did for to long).
Many treat the mind and body as separate entities. That is totally wrong. You cannot have a healthy mind if you don’t have a healthy body. If you want to fix the mind, fix the body and the mind will follow. I guess you see plenty around here you know must be very unhealthy!
Let me explain what happens.
Aerobic exercise:
Promotes the production of certain neurotransmitters: endorphins, dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin. These give a high, de-stresses and alleviates depression. Depression is caused by chemical imbalances in the brain and has little to do with external factors. Though external factors can contribute to a lifestyle which exacerbates the imbalances.
Promotes the production of a protein called BDNF (brain derived neurotrophic factor). BDNF improves cognitive function by growing more synapse connections, alleviates anxiety and depression. Basically, BDNF grows your brain. Your brain would otherwise shrink with age.
Increases the production of growth hormone by 700%. HGH is the opposite to insulin. Insulin is the hormone instructing the body to store fat. HGH cannot be present when insulin is because the body will not store and burn fat at the same time. Alzheimers and other dementia diseases are also known as type 3 diabetes. Why? Because the cause is the same as type 2 diabetes - too much insulin. So how to decrease insulin levels? Stop eating all the bloody time. Avoid sugar.
A scary fact: glucose can be utilised by every cell in the body. Fructose cannot. Not one cell can use fructose as energy. It has to be metabolised by the liver through a process called lipogenesis i.e. turned into fat and stored, thus creating a huge insulin spike. Sugar is sucrose which is a disaccharide of glucose and fructose. In America, Coca cola contains high fructose corn syrup. In the UK, Coca cola contains sugar.
By the way, don’t believe you can use artificial sweeteners instead. The body tastes sugar so expects sugar, so you get the same insulin response. It is insulin which makes you fat, not calories. That is why some people claim to put on weight just by looking at food and others can eat like a pig and stay slim. And then you hear some people say their weight always revert back to what it wants to be. That is high insulin because of insulin resistance. Your body has no means to measure calories. It is insulin which gives you cravings and hunger, by blocking leptin, which is the feedback loop from the cells to the brain, to say it is already crammed full of fat and to stop eating.
When I first trained in the gym in my youth, as my muscles grew I particularly liked the way my veins became more pronounced and larger in diameter. Because I paid particular attention to this detail I noticed the feature equally and perhaps even more so after I stopped training because over the years my veins clearly decreased in size. Also over the years my blood pressure rose and I suspect the two features are connected.
My experiment to myself is to re establish larger veins / greater blood flow and monitor blood pressure which my doc told me couldn’t be reduced as I was not overweight when I saw her and therefore wouldn’t see any improvement with exercise. We have a disagreement over this issue because I know there is a difference between exercise and training
Here is a great example to validate your statement of the benefits of walking Alex.
Thank you @robgsxr. I think I’d like the lady in the gym, too!
Similar story here, there was a very obese woman who I saw walking every day. I kind of thought she’d give up but nope. Several years later and many pounds gone, she’s still at it.
I thought she was very inspiring from the first day she started.
I have never been to a gym, never ran, never played sport, only swim on holiday and before you ask - I still weigh same as I did when I was a teenager - 11 st. But I walk a lot - up to 50 miles every single week 52 weeks a year. Always thought walking was good for you
15 Reasons Walking Is The Healthiest Way To Exercise
Salt has been blamed for the sins of sugar; high blood pressure, strokes, CV disease.There are many cultures that eat a good amount of salt yet enjoy the best health and longevity. The Greeks don’t do too badly in that regard. You need the chloride part to make hydrogen chloride which is the acid in your stomach, though you would get that from potassium chloride too which is found in fresh veg. You do need much more potassium than sodium, but both are needed to control the entry of nutrients into the cell. That is the sodium /potassium lock. Without it, you effectively would be dead.
Like I said before, if you do the opposite of whatever you have been led to believe, you’re probably doing ok.
No kidding. I go easy on the salt when good tasting feta is around. I’ve got greek blood in me too. I was in Greece last month and first went to a taverna that served grilled sardenes. Mmm, mmh!
My grandfather would lay down some SERIOUS salt on everything. To the point we were all like
It worked for him.
Me? I need more sodium than my fellow man and it works for me. If deficient, I will slavate over Sardines or grab a jar of olives. Again, we are different and our bodies will tell us what we need.
“Members of his ruling party have openly compared homosexuality to paedophilia and called for a boycott of Coca-Cola after an advert featured a gay couple.”
Some women grow beard naturally, though not often.
I think there was a murder case in America where a husband got enraged to see his wife chatting very amicably with a guy, he thought.
I saw that Eurovision a decade ago where the bearded guy in a dress won. That was disgusting.
It’s a way that the proponents of the pedo/homosexual agenda are trying to turn off the youth from heterosexuality and normalize homosexuality and pederastry.
Go Hungary
) telling him she hadn’t worked out for many years due to her damaging her legs in a car accident. This lady has trained often when I have been in there now for 6 weeks and the transformation is already amazing. She seems to have benefitted more than most simply because she was so big and noticeably she has dropped in physical size but it is her training intensity that has amazed me most. She is now in there for at least 2 hour sessions and already she is using some of the leg equipment she told the trainer (f*ck off I’m not doing that 
) on the first day I saw her. I like being in there the days she is, as I feel inspired to do that one extra set.
!!! It seems all the more rewarding if we overcome an inner fight telling ourselves no I can’t do it (as I did for to long).
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