If you message me today with your address, I'll mail you your pedometer and start-up materials. Let's have some fun together getting fit and healthy. We'll also be learning some fun stuff about our bodies. Here is a preview:
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3 Interesting Fitness Facts:
1. A dehydration of 2% of your water volume can result in a decrease of muscular performance of 20 to 30%
Source : Bean, Anita (2006). The Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition. A & C Black Publishers Ltd.. pp. 81–83. ISBN 0713675586.
2. Detraining (when you stop training) from resistance training for 2 weeks results on average in the loss of the performance acquired in 3 to 5 months of serious training. In aerobics (depending on studies/people) 8 weeks to 8 months are sufficient to lose ALL OF THE AEROBIC PERFORMANCE.
Note: This is only about physical performance. So it’s not about volume or mass of muscle, but it’s about the effort you can output in the case of resistance training, and also an endurance component in aerobics.
Sources :
1) Aerobic Fitness and Health
By Roy J. Shephard. p210-p212. Champaign, Ill., Human Kinetics, 1994. ISBN: 0-87322-417-5.
2) Exercise Physiology: Energy, Nutrition, and Human Performance
Edition 6 by William D. McArdle, Frank I. Katch, Victor L. Katch. ISBN: 0-78174-990-5. Chapter 22: MUSCULAR STRENGTH: TRAINING MUSCLES TO BECOME STRONGER
1) Aerobic Fitness and Health
By Roy J. Shephard. p210-p212. Champaign, Ill., Human Kinetics, 1994. ISBN: 0-87322-417-5.
2) Exercise Physiology: Energy, Nutrition, and Human Performance
Edition 6 by William D. McArdle, Frank I. Katch, Victor L. Katch. ISBN: 0-78174-990-5. Chapter 22: MUSCULAR STRENGTH: TRAINING MUSCLES TO BECOME STRONGER
3. Fast music during effort makes you consume more calories
Note: The way this is achieved naturally, is that for the same exercise, subjects were found to have a higher physiological effort when listening to fast tempo music. Performance is not higher but it tires the body faster.
Source : ” CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSES TO MUSIC TEMPO DURING STEADY-STATE EXERCISE”
Journal of Exercise Physiology online (JEPonline ) Volume 12 Number 1 February 2009
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