Did you know????

Basic Principles:

The body has the ability to repair itself and, like a finely tuned instrument, performs more effectively when it is properly conditioned. This conditioning is best achieved through a program of regular exercise and proper nutrition, which benefit both the body's musclo-skeletal system and the cardio-vascular-pulmonary system.

With REGULAR exercise, your bones, especially the bones in your joints and spinal column, rebuild and repair themselves as they should. Without exercise they can become thin and brittle, a condition known as osteoporosis.

WITHOUT exercise, FAT displaces muscle, and muscles can become smaller and weaker. You gain weight more easily because FAT burns calories less readily than muscle does. Added weight puts additional stress on your heart and lungs, and on the weight bearing joints of the knee, hips, ankles and feet.

When you do strength training, you reduce FAT tissue while building muscle and bone. Muscle is heavier than fat but takes up less space (because muscle is denser), so often you will maintain weight while reducing body measurements. Strong muscles help protect your joints and spinal column while improving your posture, balance and body image.

Aerobic exercise not only strengthens your bones and muscles, it also strengthens your heart and helps you maintain you lung capacity. It can slow or prevent the buildup of cholesterol plaque in your veins and arteries and helps fight off hardening of the arteries by keeping them flexible. This reduces the risks of high blood pressure and heart disease. Finally, sustained aerobic exercise can help to control Type 2 Diabetes and helps increase the production of human growth hormone.

Sustained exercise increases your metabolic rate, so that you burn more calories not only during exercise, but for several hours after you've stopped. As you strengthen and enlarge your muscles, they will burn more calories even when you are at rest... SWEET!!! ;)