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You are the engine be your own driver 

We all dream about improving ourselves , we have passions that drive us and shape our personal values. Our belief systems shape our everyday decisions from the clothes we wear to the food we eat our choices are personal and as unique are you are.

The decision to make self-improvement must come from your personal desire to become the best you can be, and not be the guilt child or another.

 If your decision to make lifestyle changes are not part of your belief system or desire, then they are likely to become short lived, or remain the realm of wishful thinking. 

Your desire to change must match your will power and self belief otherwise you may find yourself drowning under an avalanche of excuses and self sabotage.

The old saying Rome was not built in a day springs to mind when new comers to exercise ask how long will it take me to become x y and z. 

Do not burden yourself with unrealistic or impractical goals, when many people embark on a new mission of self improvement, they often get stuck in a rut due to self imposed limitations, or unrealistic goals or ambitions.

 If it took 10 years to break chances are it won’t be fixed in a day, there are many factors that can both accelerate or halt progression, from self belief, to self sabotage, activities, sleep or even over exertion

Practice, be persistent and never give up.

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Tuesday 10 October 2017

Maintaining Strong Bones


PREVENTING OSTEOPOROSIS



September 13, 2017
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PREVENTING OSTEOPOROSIS

Can we protect ourselves against osteoporosis ?

Genetic factors play a significant role in determining whether an individual is at heightened risk of osteoporosis. Factors such as lifestyle, diet and physical activity also influence bone development in young children and the rate of bone loss later in life.It is estimated that after your mid 20s, bone thinning is a natural process and cannot be completely avoided. The denser your bones, the less likely they are to become thin enough to break.Young women in particular need to be aware of their osteoporosis risk and take steps to slow its progress and prevent fractures.

When to start protection?

When it comes to protection against bone loss is never too early to invest in bone health. Prevention of osteoporosis begins with optimal bone growth and development in our youth.
Bones are living tissue, and the skeleton grows continually from birth to the end of the teenage years, where it reaches a maximum strength and size know as (peak bone mass) in early adulthood, around the early twenties.
Adults and children can help ensure healthy bones
Ensure a nutritious diet with adequate calcium intake 
Ensuring adulated levels of  protein 
Maintain a healthy supply of vitamin D
Be active take part in regular physical activity
Avoid the effects of second hand smoking
Studies suggest an estimated 10% increase of peak bone mass in children reduces the risk of an osteoporotic fracture during adult life by 50%.
Encourage your children to be active and not glued to the computer.


 Adulthood Bone Advice 

Bone mass built during youth is an important determinant of the risk of osteoporotic fracture during adult life. 
The higher the peak bone mass, the lower the risk of osteoporosis.
Once peak bone mass has been reached, it is maintained by a process called remodelling. 
This is a continuous process in which old bone is removed (resorption) and new bone is created (formation). 
The renewal of bone is responsible for bone strength throughout life.
During childhood and the beginning of adulthood, bone formation is more important than bone resorption. 
Later in life, however, the rate of bone resorption is greater than the rate of bone formation and results in net bone loss and thinning of your bones.
Factor which causes a higher rate of bone remodelling will ultimately lead to a more rapid loss of bone mass and more fragile bones. 
Nutritional and lifestyle advice for building strong bones in youth is just as important to adults to.

Help your bones 

Partake in regular low impact exercise.
Perform strength training exercises regularly, compound exercises that involve large muscle groups are the most effective and many scientific studies have proven it to be beneficial in maintaining strong bones.
Ensure a nutritious diet and adequate calcium intake experiment with your food.
Avoid under nutrition, particularly the effects of severe weight loss diets and eating disorders.
Avoid fads diets and seek medical advice if needed. 
Maintain an adequate supply of vitamin D
Get out in the fresh air, enjoy the outdoors.
Participate in regular weight bearing activity.
Avoid smoking and second hand smoking.
Avoid heavy drinking alcohol. 


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Overload How To Become Stronger Faster Fitter


Basic Principles of Overload

October 10, 2017


The Basic Principles of exercise, Brought to you by GM-Fitness

Specificity
Overload

Progression

If you are looking for overall results and improvements in your training whether it be
strength, endurance, power, speed or flexibility then we must follow the three fundamental principles.

1. Specificity
What you put in is what you get back, so if you’re looking to lose weight and speed up
our metabolic rate then you need to follow a nutrition program which is tailored to your
nutritional needs.

For example a strength training program, consisting of body weight exercises or weights dumbbells e.c.t which runs over a course of 3-5 days will result in increased strength, neuromuscular efficiency and hypertrophy if the program follows the principals of overload, rest and recovery with regular succession.

Some of us purely wish to drop a dress size or lose weight by following a nutritional plan.
This method of weight loss can be very effective however it can leave some people looking soft and shapeless due to the fact that they have not developed muscle in the process of losing weight.

The most effective method of changing your overall shape is to adhere to a nutritional plan as well as sign up to a strength or fitness training program.

2. Overload
Push your body past its comfort zone.
Looking to get stronger, Run Faster, Drop-A-Dress Size, Lose Weight?
 Progressive overload is the answer, we must strive to work harder and faster, If we perform
exercise at the same pace or overload reducing our chance of development, and we may always get the same results.

Example Of Overload

Week 1-3
2 Push ups
2 Race starts
1km walk
Repeat for 2 weeks

Week 3-4
3 push ups
4 race starts
0.5km Run, 0.4km Walk
Repeat for 2 weeks.

Week 5-6
4 push ups
5 Race starts
1km Run

Progression
Once your Body has adapted to a certain overload say for example a box push ups, this may
Indicate that your body has become efficient at the overload for that workload, to continue improving we most keep adding progressive exercises to the program or change the variables and conditions of overload, for example more weight, more reps, increase speed,

Example
You start your routine able to complete push ups on your knees, once this becomes easy for a
set amount of reps, we then progress to a 3-quarter push-up, once this becomes
easy, we progress to a full push up.

Both progression and overload can be achieved by using the FITT approach to guide your changes.
· Frequency - how often you train (1-2, 3-5, 1-6 Times per week)
· Intensity - how hard you train (workload, high or low intensity)
· Time - how long you train (20 min or an hour)
· Type- The type of training you do, Cardio, Strength, Yoga
Incorporating these key principles in to your fitness program is necessary to reap ongoing results.


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