pain and carpal tunnel syndrome. Menstrual irregularities, cardiomyopathy, altered blood lipid profile, osteoporosis and impotence (for men) may result.
Growth hormone is banned by sport organizations.
I always wondered what to do with half a Swiss ball. Well, here are some exercises with it. The half Swiss ball works out muscle fibers you would not work out if you did the exercises without it, and it works on balance at the same time.
Chest: Do push ups! Keep your whole body steady and your hips straight with your back and neck. Do four sets of ten repetitions.
Lunges: Do forward, side and back lunges. When your foot sinks into the ball, you need to use extra energy and strength to lift up. If you do this without using momentum, you get a great workout. Do four sets of ten repetitions on each of the four sides.
Squats: Stand on the Swiss ball and do four sets of ten repetitions. See the Squats blog.
Disclaimer: None of the above information can be taken as a substitute for advice from a medical professional, such as a physician.
My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on www.louizapatsis.com, http://www.authorhouse.com, www.bn.com and http://www.amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Growth Hormone
Growth hormone is released from the anterior pituitary gland with strong anabolic effects, to facilitate amino acid transport into cells, and thus help in the development of connective tissue and in carbohydrate and fat metabolism.
Ergogenic claims increases muscle mass, the body's ability to burn fat, decreases recovery time, and enhances healing after musculoskeletal injuries. Its ability to facilitate the entry of amino acids into muscle is linked to muscle hypertrophy. It also stimulates fat metabolism. Some believe that its link to connective tissue development enhances healing after muscle workout tears or injuries.
However, few controlled studies have been done to assess the efficacy of it administration in athletes. They conclude that the administration to increase growth hormone concentration above normal amounts does to lead to muscle mass or power increase. Growth hormone users do report muscle mass and strength increase sometimes. This may be a placebo effect.
Growth hormone is sometimes given to children to correct its deficiency. Now recombinant growth hormone is used. Growth hormone administration has only been available for 20 years. Long-term use will most likely result in fluid retention load increased risk for diabetes mellitus and hypertension. People suffering from increased growth hormone production suffer from hand and feet swelling, excess sweating, joint pain and carpal tunnel syndrome. Menstrual irregularities, cadriomyopathy, altered blood lipid profile, osteoporosis and impotence (for men) may result.
Growth hormone is banned by sport organizations.
Some of this information was taken from Winning Sports Nutrition by Linda Houtkooper, PhD, RD, FACSM, Jaclyn Maurer Abbot, PhD, RD and Veronica Mullins, MS, RD, CSCS.
Disclaimer: None of the above information can be taken as a substitute for advice from a medical professional, such as a physician.
My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on www.louizapatsis.com, http://www.authorhouse.com, www.bn.com and http://www.amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories.
Ergogenic claims increases muscle mass, the body's ability to burn fat, decreases recovery time, and enhances healing after musculoskeletal injuries. Its ability to facilitate the entry of amino acids into muscle is linked to muscle hypertrophy. It also stimulates fat metabolism. Some believe that its link to connective tissue development enhances healing after muscle workout tears or injuries.
However, few controlled studies have been done to assess the efficacy of it administration in athletes. They conclude that the administration to increase growth hormone concentration above normal amounts does to lead to muscle mass or power increase. Growth hormone users do report muscle mass and strength increase sometimes. This may be a placebo effect.
Growth hormone is sometimes given to children to correct its deficiency. Now recombinant growth hormone is used. Growth hormone administration has only been available for 20 years. Long-term use will most likely result in fluid retention load increased risk for diabetes mellitus and hypertension. People suffering from increased growth hormone production suffer from hand and feet swelling, excess sweating, joint pain and carpal tunnel syndrome. Menstrual irregularities, cadriomyopathy, altered blood lipid profile, osteoporosis and impotence (for men) may result.
Growth hormone is banned by sport organizations.
Some of this information was taken from Winning Sports Nutrition by Linda Houtkooper, PhD, RD, FACSM, Jaclyn Maurer Abbot, PhD, RD and Veronica Mullins, MS, RD, CSCS.
Disclaimer: None of the above information can be taken as a substitute for advice from a medical professional, such as a physician.
My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on www.louizapatsis.com, http://www.authorhouse.com, www.bn.com and http://www.amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories.
What to Eat
There is no fixed rule on what to eat before, during and after a workout. The below book suggests that, for endurance or intermittent sports exercise of less than 60 minutes duration, you consume 6 - 12 oz of cool fluid every 15 to 20 minutes. However, if you start working out in a fed state, you do not need to eat during exercise of this duration. For exercise of more than 60 minutes duration, the authors suggest to consume 30 to 60 g of carbohydrates in an easily digestible snack or beverage every hour.
At 1 to 4 hours prior to exercise, consume 0.5 to 1.8 g of carbohydrate per lb of body weight, moderate protein and lowfat snack. At 30 to 60 minutes before exercise, consume 0.3 to 0.5 g of carbohydrate per pound of body weight.
For about 30 minutes after exercise, consume 0.7g of carbohydrate per lb of body weight lowfat snack for endurance sports, and 0.7 g of carbohydrate per lb of body weight lowfat snack for intermittent sports. Within two hours after exercise, eat a high carbohydrate, moderate protein and lowfat meal, of 0.5 to 0.7 g of carbohydrate
Some of this information was taken from Winning Sports Nutrition by Linda Houtkooper, PhD, RD, FACSM, Jaclyn Maurer Abbot, PhD, RD and Veronica Mullins, MS, RD, CSCS.
Disclaimer: None of the above information can be taken as a substitute for advice from a medical professional, such as a physician.
My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on www.louizapatsis.com, http://www.authorhouse.com, www.bn.com and http://www.amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories.
At 1 to 4 hours prior to exercise, consume 0.5 to 1.8 g of carbohydrate per lb of body weight, moderate protein and lowfat snack. At 30 to 60 minutes before exercise, consume 0.3 to 0.5 g of carbohydrate per pound of body weight.
For about 30 minutes after exercise, consume 0.7g of carbohydrate per lb of body weight lowfat snack for endurance sports, and 0.7 g of carbohydrate per lb of body weight lowfat snack for intermittent sports. Within two hours after exercise, eat a high carbohydrate, moderate protein and lowfat meal, of 0.5 to 0.7 g of carbohydrate
Some of this information was taken from Winning Sports Nutrition by Linda Houtkooper, PhD, RD, FACSM, Jaclyn Maurer Abbot, PhD, RD and Veronica Mullins, MS, RD, CSCS.
Disclaimer: None of the above information can be taken as a substitute for advice from a medical professional, such as a physician.
My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on www.louizapatsis.com, http://www.authorhouse.com, www.bn.com and http://www.amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories.
If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It
As a follow up to my previous blog, I write this one "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It". Like a person who desperately wants to win at poker or to make money, you will never successfully be healthy or lose weight if you think you are broke or there is something wrong with your body. You will yo yo diet, starve yourself and have no energy or some other such variation.
Are you unable to breathe or move? And if you are, you are alive, right? There is nothing wrong.
Disclaimer: None of the above information can be taken as a substitute for advice from a medical professional, such as a physician.
My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on www.louizapatsis.com, http://www.authorhouse.com, www.bn.com and http://www.amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories.
Are you unable to breathe or move? And if you are, you are alive, right? There is nothing wrong.
Disclaimer: None of the above information can be taken as a substitute for advice from a medical professional, such as a physician.
My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on www.louizapatsis.com, http://www.authorhouse.com, www.bn.com and http://www.amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories.
"Organic" and Other Claims
I am in the middle road when it comes to Western and Eastern medicine, eating a balance of all food including processed sugar or even McDonald's and such, and organic or vegetarian food. Again , one must feel out there body to see what they need and want. Genetic factors, conditions and activity must be taken into account. If you are diabetic, you may not be able to eat the sugar a young athlete can. See your physician. If you have a family history of heart disease, you may want to watch your fat even if you exercise. If you exercise and study a lot and often work late with six or less hours of sleep, you may be able to eat two dinners or two pieces of cake a day without compromising your bloodwork or gaining weight. See for yourself.
I think that often medicine and surgery are needed. Other times it is equally or more important to think yourself well. Often "disease" is in the mind. You are emotionally and mentally dis-ease and it manifests physically. However, I personally will not claim that there is an either or approach to this: Only the Western or Eastern view is not true. Truth to me is multidimensional and you must be present to sense for yourself what is true at the moment. You may, for instance, function well by eating lots of sweets and drinking lots of coffee, and sleeping less than eight hours a day. You get to say.
Often scientists will scoff at the idea of organic food. All food is organic. We do not eat metals. I am a scientist with two degrees form New York University. (See my Web site www.louzipatsis.com) I get that point of view. People that eat organic will argue that other food has huge amounts of hormones. Has any of us really done the research? Looking up different keywords with "organic" on www.pubmed.gov, the largest reservoir of medical information in the world, barely yielded any results. Most searches yielded less than 50 results each, while a search like "heart attack" yielded More than 120,000. Of these, few were relevant.
It does not take much effort or money if one cares to give their scientific results to a peer-reviewed journal such as the Journal of the American Medical Association or a the Journal of Sports Physiology and share their knowledge on organic food.This is a young area. No one has done much research on long-term health and life spans of people on vegetarian and organic diets, just as no one has done long-term research on the health and life spans of women getting artificial breast implants. In addition, you can never avoid preservatives in food completely, polluted air, etc. This does not mean choose what is right for you, it means to me to put it all into perspective.
To me it seems that people who try to avoid carbohydrates and fats most of the time, and eat only organic or vegetarian organic food may be operating from an initial subconscious or conscious thought of "I will get sick". Other thoughts may follow like "I can figure this out...how not to get sick." But the original thought is that they will get sick, and if they think they manifest their thoughts and that is the whole Truth, chances are that they will get sick!
I have studies a course in graduate oncology. Two mutations in a gene are needed. Food and chemicals may affect this. Who knows, thoughts may affect this. Often, a mutation is spontaneous. The DNA enzymes that go around correcting mistakes in the much-replicating DNA, may miss a mistake. That's all it takes. How many times have you forgotten anything on your shopping or to do list? It may be a numbers game. I do not pretend I know everything about the world or nature. We have much to explore and learn.
At the same time, as is often the case in Taoist-like seeming contradictions this multidimensional world, we do know what is good for us individually if we get in touch with and listen to ourselves. See an earlier blog by searching for "listening".
What's your opinion? Cite some relevant authors and titles.
Disclaimer: None of the above information can be taken as a substitute for advice from a medical professional, such as a physician.
My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on www.louizapatsis.com, http://www.authorhouse.com, www.bn.com and http://www.amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories.
I think that often medicine and surgery are needed. Other times it is equally or more important to think yourself well. Often "disease" is in the mind. You are emotionally and mentally dis-ease and it manifests physically. However, I personally will not claim that there is an either or approach to this: Only the Western or Eastern view is not true. Truth to me is multidimensional and you must be present to sense for yourself what is true at the moment. You may, for instance, function well by eating lots of sweets and drinking lots of coffee, and sleeping less than eight hours a day. You get to say.
Often scientists will scoff at the idea of organic food. All food is organic. We do not eat metals. I am a scientist with two degrees form New York University. (See my Web site www.louzipatsis.com) I get that point of view. People that eat organic will argue that other food has huge amounts of hormones. Has any of us really done the research? Looking up different keywords with "organic" on www.pubmed.gov, the largest reservoir of medical information in the world, barely yielded any results. Most searches yielded less than 50 results each, while a search like "heart attack" yielded More than 120,000. Of these, few were relevant.
It does not take much effort or money if one cares to give their scientific results to a peer-reviewed journal such as the Journal of the American Medical Association or a the Journal of Sports Physiology and share their knowledge on organic food.This is a young area. No one has done much research on long-term health and life spans of people on vegetarian and organic diets, just as no one has done long-term research on the health and life spans of women getting artificial breast implants. In addition, you can never avoid preservatives in food completely, polluted air, etc. This does not mean choose what is right for you, it means to me to put it all into perspective.
To me it seems that people who try to avoid carbohydrates and fats most of the time, and eat only organic or vegetarian organic food may be operating from an initial subconscious or conscious thought of "I will get sick". Other thoughts may follow like "I can figure this out...how not to get sick." But the original thought is that they will get sick, and if they think they manifest their thoughts and that is the whole Truth, chances are that they will get sick!
I have studies a course in graduate oncology. Two mutations in a gene are needed. Food and chemicals may affect this. Who knows, thoughts may affect this. Often, a mutation is spontaneous. The DNA enzymes that go around correcting mistakes in the much-replicating DNA, may miss a mistake. That's all it takes. How many times have you forgotten anything on your shopping or to do list? It may be a numbers game. I do not pretend I know everything about the world or nature. We have much to explore and learn.
At the same time, as is often the case in Taoist-like seeming contradictions this multidimensional world, we do know what is good for us individually if we get in touch with and listen to ourselves. See an earlier blog by searching for "listening".
What's your opinion? Cite some relevant authors and titles.
Disclaimer: None of the above information can be taken as a substitute for advice from a medical professional, such as a physician.
My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on www.louizapatsis.com, http://www.authorhouse.com, www.bn.com and http://www.amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Hyponatremia
Today is the five-year anniversary of the Iraqi war. May the souls of all of the women and men who have died as a result of the Iraqi war rest in peace. May the emotionally, mentally and physically injured have great lives.
Hyponatremia results from too little sodium in the blood. Often, blood pressure decreases and not enough blood gets to cells to nourish them. Hyponatremia results from hydration's without electrolytes during prolonged periods of sweating, such as endurance events. Athletes can sweat at a rate of 2.5 liters an hour and lose 115 to 690 milligrams (mg) of sodium, or 288 to 1,725 mg per hour, with each liter. If the athlete, or you!, is following a low-sodium diet, more sodium loss can occur! Muscle twitches may indicate hyponatremia.
Take care to follow hydration guidelines. If exercise last longer than an hour and a half, it may be wise to drink a sports drink with electrolytes such as sodium. If you tend to get hyponatremia, you do not have high blood pressure, and your physician approves,
Some of this information was taken from Winning Sports Nutrition by Linda Houtkooper, PhD, RD, FACSM, Jaclyn Maurer Abbot, PhD, RD and Veronica Mullins, MS, RD, CSCS.
Disclaimer: None of the above information can be taken as a substitute for advice from a medical professional, such as a physician.
My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on www.louizapatsis.com, http://www.authorhouse.com, www.bn.com and http://www.amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories.
Hyponatremia results from too little sodium in the blood. Often, blood pressure decreases and not enough blood gets to cells to nourish them. Hyponatremia results from hydration's without electrolytes during prolonged periods of sweating, such as endurance events. Athletes can sweat at a rate of 2.5 liters an hour and lose 115 to 690 milligrams (mg) of sodium, or 288 to 1,725 mg per hour, with each liter. If the athlete, or you!, is following a low-sodium diet, more sodium loss can occur! Muscle twitches may indicate hyponatremia.
Take care to follow hydration guidelines. If exercise last longer than an hour and a half, it may be wise to drink a sports drink with electrolytes such as sodium. If you tend to get hyponatremia, you do not have high blood pressure, and your physician approves,
Some of this information was taken from Winning Sports Nutrition by Linda Houtkooper, PhD, RD, FACSM, Jaclyn Maurer Abbot, PhD, RD and Veronica Mullins, MS, RD, CSCS.
Disclaimer: None of the above information can be taken as a substitute for advice from a medical professional, such as a physician.
My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on www.louizapatsis.com, http://www.authorhouse.com, www.bn.com and http://www.amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories.
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Rejuvenation Through Working Out
This is my "theory": When you work out, time stands still. If you did biceps curls 10years ago and you do them the same way - same position and range of motion, and somewhat heavier weight and more sets and repetitions, your muscle and then your mind and spirit will have memory. To your consciousness and body, you will be the same as you were 10 years ago when you did the same exercise. Your body's cells may actually grow younger.
I read Eckhart Tolle's new book A New Earth. He talks about timelessness when you are connected to Consciousness. Working out is a primary way to do this.
Disclaimer: None of the above information can be taken as a substitute for advice from a medical professional, such as a physician.
My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on www.louizapatsis.com, http://www.authorhouse.com, www.bn.com and http://www.amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories.
I read Eckhart Tolle's new book A New Earth. He talks about timelessness when you are connected to Consciousness. Working out is a primary way to do this.
Disclaimer: None of the above information can be taken as a substitute for advice from a medical professional, such as a physician.
My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on www.louizapatsis.com, http://www.authorhouse.com, www.bn.com and http://www.amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories.
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