Morning Musings: June 10

When you do high intensity cardio that makes you breathe heavily, you increase the stroke volume of your heart.   With every pump your heart pumps out more blood so your heart rate under exertion will actually decrease as you get […]

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Morning Musings: June 9

Doing fat burning exercise makes more fat burning enzymes.   You make more of something called hormone sensitive lipase, and then when you do more fat burning exercise (like take a walk), you will notice that you don’t get winded as […]

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Morning Musings: June 8

When you are in shape (and adequately rested and fueled, by the way) “the burn” actually does feel sort of good, and sometimes exhilarating.  At least, it is not as unpleasant as it is when you are not in shape.  […]

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Morning Musings: June 7

When you lift weights or do any kind of resistance training, you give your body more places to store sugar.  To begin with they are sugar burning exercises, so you use the sugar already stored in your muscles and make […]

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Morning Musings: June 6

Your body becomes what you ask it to do.  If you act like a fat and sugar storer (i.e. couch potato), your body will become just that.  If you want it to be a fat and sugar burner, you can […]

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