HEALTHY LIVING WITH PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS.
Healthy Living with Physical Limitations: Unlocking the Energy Equation
With certain factors of age or chronic conditions and or disabilities normal exercise may be denied to you.
How do we get around this and still maintain a healthy lifestyle?
I believe there are several factors in your general physical and mental health that can be greatly improved even if you have a severe physical roadblock.
I will try and stick to the most important points I have discovered that make the biggest impact.
Energy : This includes the foods and nutrients you consume, as well as your eating patterns and habits. Proper nutrition can help fuel your workouts, support muscle growth and repair.
Balance : Body and brain chemistry has a unique balance that is different for every person. Too much or not enough of what you need can affect you dramatically both physically and mentally.
Toxins : The chemicals, poisons,fuel oversupply of things we eat or drink.
Nutrients : Keys to the things that give you the ability to function and make everything work as they are supposed to.
Storage : Your liver and muscles can store only a limited amount of energy for your daily functioning. Excesses in energy are stored as subcutaneous fat and visceral fat. Increased Muscle mass and or density dramatically improves your storage capacity.
Isometric exercise: These are exercises in which you contract your muscles without moving your joints. Isometric exercise can help build muscle mass and density, improve metabolic health, and reduce pain and inflammation.
Metabolic advantages: Training a circadian rhythm for optimizing your body's metabolism, several of the goals for this are increasing muscle mass and density, improving insulin sensitivity, eating and fasting patterns and reducing inflammation.
Neurotransmitters: These are chemicals in the brain that help transmit signals between neurons. Certain neurotransmitters, such as dopamine and serotonin, play key roles in motivation, mood, and reward, and can help drive you to take action towards your health and fitness goals.
Learning about and putting into action some or all of the suggestions I will make based on these points will help improve overall health and wellness, weight loss and may even reduce the risk of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease.
I will after the next few blogs put forward a choice of 3 programs I have developed. Hopefully anyone will be able to pick one to suit their needs and personal circumstances and lifestyle.
1 Balance basics: improving your health and lifestyle without too much work ( phase 1)
2 Complete life system: a mid level of life change that doesn't mess with your diet and lifestyle too much but tries to maximize the benefits with a little effort. ( phase 2)
3 No holds barred: The gloves are off and it's either put up or shut up time, complete lifestyle rework both physically and mentally. It requires hard work and commitment and enough motivation, drive and fear to see it through. ( there are no more phases, you become the system, not a slave to it.)
I have given a very small piece of this puzzle in my first blog on sugar. There is a massive amount of extra information to give, but I am trying to take it easy to start and not overwhelm anyone reading or watching the you tube videos.
If you want me to write a blog on the more technical side of things let me know or if you need help understanding what the hell i'm blurbing out that's fine too, just hit me up.
The next subject I will ease everyone into is a core to a part of the storage factor as well many other aspects for my systems. I will try to give simple and more technical explanations of how this all works.
When you add fuel to your body it is used in many ways and stored for that use by several factors the first 2 are the most important
Your muscles : muscles store glycogen to provide a readily available source of energy during exercise and physical activity, as well as to help maintain blood glucose levels during periods of prolonged activity.
Your liver: The liver plays a critical role in regulating blood glucose levels in the body. The liver stores glucose in the form of glycogen, which can be broken down and released into the bloodstream when blood glucose levels drop. This process is important for maintaining normal blood glucose levels and providing energy to the body's cells, particularly during times when food is not being consumed, such as during fasting or overnight while sleeping.
When blood glucose levels rise, the liver removes excess glucose from the bloodstream and stores it as glycogen. Later, when blood glucose levels drop, the liver converts glycogen back into glucose and releases it into the bloodstream to provide energy to the body's cells. This regulation of blood glucose levels by the liver is critical for maintaining energy balance and overall metabolic health.
Think of your liver and muscles as a bucket. When that bucket is full to the point of overflowing your excess glucose must go somewhere and that somewhere is fat cells. Glucose is basically the sugar that your body has converted from food and drinks to as its form of readily available energy source. That is then converted to glycogen for storage and back again for use.
When your liver and muscle glycogen stores are full, any excess glucose in the blood will be converted into fatty acids and stored in adipose tissue (fat cells) as triglycerides. This process is known as lipogenesis.
The amount of glycogen that can be stored in the muscles and liver varies depending on a variety of factors, including body size, muscle mass and density, fitness level, diet, and activity level. However, on average, the liver can store about 100-120 grams of glycogen, while the muscles can store between 300-400 grams of glycogen.
It's important to note that glycogen storage capacity can be increased through regular physical activity and a diet rich in carbohydrates. In addition, glycogen storage can be decreased in certain medical conditions such as glycogen storage diseases or liver diseases.
Here sits one of the main issues for those who cannot exercise or do regular physical activity and have this road block. There are many other issues with lack of exercise but I will touch on those later.
One of the main key points of today's blog is to emphasize how important your storage system is and that it is only another small piece of the puzzle.
So how can we increase our storage capacity in muscles and our overall fitness and metabolism.
I will go in depth on diet and how to change your metabolism in other ways but for now lack of exercise is a very important part that is blocking us from an overall strategy. My next blog addresses this directly and i will be writing it after dinner today and will put it up first thing in the morning so you can “digest a bit of what i've discussed here” Pun intended lol
Thanks for reading and I hope you continue as I am starting my next journey and l share everything I have learned.
