This Newsletter:

• Spring Workshop on the Calendar
• Exercise Physiology Module at Biomedx EDU

A spring workshop is on the calendar for April 18-21.

While a look under the microscope today is uncovering the weirdest of things in people, we also look to our work with meters, measures and more to bring insights about what to do with those weirdest of things and how it might be affecting one’s physiology.

To that end, we’ll be delving into a golden core of foundational health principles and topics desperately needed in a world gone – dare I say it - medically mad.

Yep, we’re going to have whopping good fun going through all sorts of great stuff while connecting with other like-minded souls in the process.

Hope you can join us.

Get More Info and Register HERE!

New Years Resolutions

Like hamsters drawn to a running wheel in a cage, people are drawn to the treadmills and spin bikes at their local fitness center whenever the new year takes hold.

But about now into February and certainly by March, it is my guess that those new year resolutions and the enthusiasm for exercise is starting to wane for many and the grand plans are going caput.

Maybe this is because intuitively, people get a sense that doing the treadmill, like the hamster on the wheel, isn’t getting them anywhere with their health.

And there is a bit of truth to that.

Does Exercise Make You Live Longer?

There has never been a controlled study on this aspect of exercise for the simple reason that it is impossible to do it with humans. But it has been done with rats.

Back in 1998 a study was conducted looking at food restriction vs exercise.

The rats used in the study were bred especially for their desire to voluntarily exercise on the running wheel. They loved to run.

Turns out, the food restricted rats lived longer than the exercising rats. In fact, the control group rats lived longer than the exercising rats.

The reason?

Oxidative stress from the continual exercise killed them off sooner. The increased catabolism from exercise did them in.

One aspect of our workshops is to learn how to tell when you are too high or too low in various markers of homeo-dynamic control.

Over-doing exercise give off tell-tale signs when excess catabolic stress is occurring. This is important to know as all exercise generates catabolic stress, followed by an anabolic adaptation.

While the stress from the exercise can be short lived, the anabolic adaptation stage can last for days.

This is where a lot of exercisers and athletes get into trouble. And generally never know it.

We see this on our data sheet sometimes of the ‘athletic’ health coach or doctor.

Resting heart rate: 56. Yikes!

Way too low.

The reason often heard: ‘I do athletic training and I run a low heart rate.’ The inference being they are in good shape.

Umm… probably not.

It is more likely their heart is suffering excess catabolic stress and they need to take a break. They are consistently short circuiting their anabolic adaptation mode after their training regimen and it is doing them in.

A normal resting heart rate is 72. Yes, even for the best tuned athlete it should be 72.

There are other markers to be looking at as well, like body temperature. Plus, there are methods of exercise that are good for fitness and optimal performance, and other methods that are surprisingly detrimental to both.

Yep, ponder those rats on the running wheel.

The Exercise Physiology Module

I am speaking briefly on this topic as a way to introduce the Exercise Physiology Module on our EDU platform. I finally turned it on and it is excellent. You need to go there and devour the info.

You need it, and your clients need to hear about it from you as well.

We are talking about Diphasic Fitness and having an acute awareness about exercise physiology and how it actually works, not how it is typically presented, or taught.

The module is so good in fact, that our resident unregistered nurse was working on the audios for this module and she got so totally excited, she started into it almost immediately.

In the process, she has experienced the shortest routines and least time ever spent at her fitness center, while at the same time busting her butt more than she ever has before. Texting me excitedly…

“Holy crap!! Grunt and growl (groan) to tears yesterday. Done in 15 minutes. I am DOWN 2 POUNDS today!!!!”

Add that to the 2 pounds from last week.

And she won’t be doing that 15 minute routine again for at least 2 to 3 days giving her body’s anabolic adaptation time to repair and build back better the muscle tissue she just worked to tears.

Did you know it takes 45,000 calories to build one pound of muscle?

And the best source of calories for building that muscle? It comes from fat.

Yes fat. Not protein. Not carbs. Fat.

Once an extra pound of muscle is built, it burns 50 calories a day, at rest.

Build 4 new pounds of muscle, it is burning 200 calories a day, at rest.

To burn 200 calories of fat to match what 4 pounds of muscle burns at rest, a person would have to run 2 miles a day full out.

So, carrying an extra 4 pounds of muscle, which is far more condensed than fat and much more shapely, is equivalent to running 2 miles a day every day of the year.

Learn the correct approach to exercise physiology and unlike the rat on the wheel, you’ll never be seen on a treadmill again.

There is so much more to say about this, it could take an entire workshop module to do it.

And that's exactly why an entire workshop module has been created for it. 

Please, if you have not done it already, join the Biomedx EDU platform and get into all of this wonderful material that you will use for a lifetime of greater health.

And speaking of lifetime, this is still applicable to membership at edu.biomedx.com, but like all good things, this is going to end at some point.

Get it while you can. And join us at the next workshop.

Until next time - when I won’t be seeing you at the gym due to vastly more efficient exercise that requires so little time it isn’t worth driving there anymore - be well!

Steve

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