Some Facts about Health

* You must keep insulin under control if you want growth hormone to do its job of mobilizing fat. Lower carbohydrate consumption and limit it to complex carbs in order to facilitate fat loss. That’s a basic rule for any fat loss diet.

* Fat loss is a process that occurs in the whole body, it cannot be limited to a specific area. There are certain areas to which fat tends to stick more, but that doesn’t mean that you can specifically target those areas.

* It’s much harder to put on 10 pounds of muscle than it is to lose 10 pounds of fat. Muscle gain is a very slow and difficult process. It takes years to build a substantial amount of muscle mass naturally. However, it takes months to get rid of excess fat provided you are experienced with dieting and training.

* Once fat cells are created, but they cannot be lost – only shrunken. But that doesn’t mean they can’t shrink to close to nothing if you diet properly.

* Optimal testosterone levels are essential for the normal functioning of all bodily systems. Muscle growth and fat loss are heavily influenced by the levels of that hormone.

* There are 3 types of  muscle fibers – type I, type II-A, and type II-B. 

* The body has 3 energy systems – ATP-PC, anaerobic glycolysis, and aerobic. Bodybuilders, weight lifters and sprinters use mostly the ATP system. As ATP stores in the body get low as a result of explosive movements for longer period of time, the body switches to anaerobic glycolysis. That’s when muscle glycogen starts being used as primary fuel. You can optimize ATP re-synthesis by supplementing with creatine.

* Dehydrating a muscle by 3% can cause a 10% loss of strength. Your body is mostly composed of water, so any sub-optimal levels could lead to decrease performance and could have negative health consequences.

* Lactic acid is not the cause of delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS). Lactic acid returns to normal levels within 60 minutes of finishing exercising.Performing heavy compound movements for low-to-average reps is what tears down the muscle fibers and causes micro tears, which the body recuperates and the muscle grows stronger and bigger as a result. Intense stretching while exercising also has a similar effect, that’s why the negative part of the exercise is equally important when it comes to stimulating the muscle.

* The hearts is the strongest muscle in the body – it beats around 100 000 times per day. 

* The more muscles you have – the more energy your body uses at rest. 

* The muscle that can generate the most power is your jaw muscle, and the record for human jaw strength is 442 kg of pressure for 2 seconds.

* Moderate exercising can improve immune function. Extreme physical stress can suppress the immune system. Extreme physical training leads to vulnerable immune system, as many of the white blood cells are used for recovery of the training trauma and local inflammation. When following a fat loss diet it is even more stressful, as calories are lower and the immune system loses its full capacity to operate.