Importance of conditioning

By: robertsim Mood: full of life Date: 02/18/2008 20:56:59 Music: Silence...

I want to focus the theme of this blog on S&C - Strength and Conditioning.

I guess when we are a tad overweight, S&C training seems to be the furthest thing on our mind, and now that we have loss some weight, it seems our body will be able to handle a lighter body right?..  Wrong!

You see, when we lose weight, not only fats and muscles are lost, particularly, every element of your body seems to be in the state of disintegration, sounds horrible, but true, how else did you think your body have lost weight? LOL

To counter this, we have our dietary supplements of more intake of certain food groups for protiens, vitamins, etc etc.  All this is true. I will have my fair share of detractors for my next few comments on this blog, but this is my 2 cents, so there! LOL

We need to replace muscles which have been lost due to exercise. Also our joints are being worked harder because of our exercise regime.

In short, we need to build some muscle mass not only to strengthen the joints and able to do more work (increase our rate of exercise), but also to look better.  Having taut muscles will tightened the loose skins that have developed from our rapid loss of weight.

Conditioning of the joint to endure and sustain repetitive actions such as lifting weights or squats or jogging, will help strengthen them so that our exercise regime will not meet an early demise or periodically disrupted due to recovery periods.

For more S&C tips, let me know.

Otherthan that, all I have to say is good luck for everyone whose weight loss journey is well on the way, and c'mon everyone who is procrastinating!

Robert