April 22, 2008
Filed under: Aerobic, Man, Muscle, Physical, Sex, Singles, Women — arlene @ 4:09 am
Unmentionables
We probably also at this time go to the lavatory. Even here there is a right and a wrong way.
Now you are probably going to say that I am going too far. After all, we have all been peeing and other things quite successfully all our lives. We learned these things before we could walk! The woman, and maybe also the man, will sit down. Be sure to sit down using your legs alone. Do not support yourself with your hands and try to sit slowly, feeling your leg muscles work. Don’t just flop down!
However, even if the man only stands there he can draw in his lower stomach muscles and release them several times and alternately close the cheeks of his bottom muscles several times (In later years this can help the flow of water). For the woman this is far more important. There are three groups of muscles which are often neglected. (more…)
February 18, 2008
Filed under: Aerobic, Essays, Man, Muscle, Physical, Programs, Singles, Trainer, Women, equipment — arlene @ 11:55 pm
Survey results repeatedly indicate that calisthenics is one of the top two or three participant activities performed. Calisthenics, exercises such as the crunch and push-ups, are designed to build flexibility, strength, or muscular endurance in specific muscle groups. Even though most calisthenics are aerobic, they are often done intermittently. That is, calisthenic exercises are done a few at a time followed by a rest period. This type of calisthenics can build flexibility, strength, and muscular endurance, but does little for cardiovascular fitness or fat control.
Continuous calisthenics, or calisthenics that are done without stopping or with walking, jogging, rope jumping, or some other aerobic activity performed during the rest period, can develop virtually all health- related aspects of physical fitness. Fitness pioneer Dr. Thomas Cureton (1965) long advocated the use of continuous calisthenics, or what he referred to as “continuous rhythmical endurance exercise.” Almost everyone can plan a continuous calisthenic program by selecting exercises for each fitness part that will elevate the heart rate to the optimal level and sustain this intensity an adequate length of time. As is the case with CRT, it is essential that resting between exercises be kept to a minimum. Continuous calisthenics can be done individually, but is also excellent for group use. (more…)
December 7, 2007
Filed under: Aerobic, Essays, Gym, Mental, Physical, Sex, Singles — arlene @ 1:28 am
Taken as a whole, the review posits that a range of exercise regimens may have a therapeutic role in relation to a number of psychological disorders. At the same time, the research evidence to date does not provide unqualified support for the efficacy of exercise, and enthusiasm must be tempered with an acknowledgment of the dangers associated with exercise. Certainly, the literature does not indicate that exercise should be treated as a panacea or snake-oil for psychological malaise of whatever kind. Instead, it does suggest that different forms of physical exercise may be palliative in relation to particular conditions.
Whether that exercise be non-aerobic, aerobic or anaerobic, of short, medium or long term duration, competitive or non-competitive, team or individual, single or multi-session, is not always clear but there are suggestions that different psychological conditions respond differentially to alternative exercise regimens and recent attempts to develop taxonomies of physical activity and mental health may offer a realistic starting point in attempting to draw together some of the diverse recommendations. (more…)
November 24, 2007
Filed under: Diet, Drugs, Singles — just4hours @ 1:47 am
Several measures have been suggested to reduce the negative effects of circadian rhythm desynchronisation, although treatment of shift workers, competitive athletes, and simple international travellers is quite different. The measures include preadaptation, meal timing and composition, phototherapy, and chronobiotic drugs.
1. Preadaptation
Theoretically, the negative effects of jet lag can be reduced by changing bedtime for several days before a transcontinental journey, remembering that sleep changes should correspond to the direction of travel (eastward or westward). Adaptation should be disturbed by behaviour that anchors the circadian rhythms to the previous phase for example, taking prolonged naps at the new destination. To lock the circadian rhythms to home time, at least 4 hours sleep taken within the window of normal sleep in the home time zone are needed. However, in practice, preadaptation is superfluous when people are travelling west, arriving late, and only a few hours phase advance can be recommended before travelling east. Moreover, because of the difficulty of manipulating other synchronising factors (light, social constraints), preadjusting the sleep-wake cycles is largely ineffective. (more…)
Filed under: Man, Sex, Singles, Trainer, Women — just4hours @ 1:11 am
Long term suppression of serum testosterone associated with exercise may result from decreased production rates, decreased protein binding or increased clearance. Of theses, the most likely mechanism is decreased testosterone production arising from either intrinsic failure of the testis to maintain adequate steroid biosynthesis perhaps due to testicular microtrauma and temperature increase’ or from central dysfunction in the HPG axis. The latteris supported by reports of decreases in LH pulse amplitude” and frequency’ as well as changes in pituitary responses to hypothalamic stimulation by exogenous GnRH in male athletes. In addition, factors may interact with the HPG axis including dietary intake”‘” and raised concentrations of stress related hormones. (more…)
