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ShareExercise to Increase Metabolism
Exercise to increase metabolism is an important and easy thing to incorporate into a fitness lifestyle. Exercise to increase metabolism is important because as we age are resting metabolism decreases after the age of 25. This ever diminishing decrease in metabolism comes with the negative effect of muscle loss. After the age of 25, most people on average can lose about 5 pounds of lean muscle mass per decade.
In my article about fitness lifestyle, I discuss the importance of having large muscles since their primary source of energy is stored
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ShareEnergy Balance and Weight Management
Energy balance and weight management have a direct correlation because the human body has a limited supply of energy. Energy balance and weight management in the terms of who much food we eat and how much energy we expend. In my article Good Nutrition and the Body, I explain how this correlation has an effect on many systems in our body ranging from hormonal status, mental outlook, stress, and of course weight management just to name a few. Below we will take a look at energy balance and
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ShareProtein Metabolism: Energy Transfer and ATP
Protein Metabolism is an important role in producing ATP, along with the other macronutreints (carbohydrates and fats). Protein Metabolism accomplishes this through the energy transfer pathways just as carbohydrate metabolism and fat metabolism play their respective roles in the energy transfer pathways. Simply stated, the energy transfer pathways are where the process of breaking down the carbon-hydrogen bonds that are in the foods we eat into ATP for energy.
Protein is an important component of every cell, tissue, and organ in our body.
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ShareFat Metabolism
Fat metabolism takes place during the three main Energy Transfer Process which are designed to break down this macronutrient’s (along with carbohydrates and proteins) chemical bonds to form ATP. Although most people have a negative connotation of fats, they are extremely important for good health and in achieving maximum performance. Fats play many roles in our bodies such as: regulation of hormones, transport vitamins and minerals through the body, are structurally important (along with triglycerides) in our plasma, and they are our largest source of energy in the body.
Our body is
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ShareATP and Energy Transfer Processes
ATP and Energy Transfer Processes supplies the energy to perform every bodily action. ATP is required for every muscle contraction, and ATP is even needed to make more ATP. In my article What is ATP, I discusses what ATP is in depth.
A high-level view of what ATP is and does is that ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate) is needed for practically every action in our body. Or put another way, ATP is the energy source for all human movement. Through the digestive process energy is released from the nutrients
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ShareWhat is ATP?
What is ATP is a question that I get asked a lot. Most athletic have an understanding of what ATP is and that it provides the energy they need to perform. In my article Food: Nutrition Absorption and Delivery I discussed that after we eat a meal, the nutrients are digested, absorbed and screened by the liver and then sent into the bloodstream of the body to reach target cells. Once the nutrients reach their target cells a number of things can happen such as: 1) they are oxidized for
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ShareSix Different Levels of the Human Body: Level One and Two – ATOMS, MOLECULES, and CELLS
(Part one in a three part series)
Have you ever seen a science program about the planet earth and our solar system where they start with a close up of the earth and then pan out? Imagine starting at the surface of the earth and moving away. Next you see the continents, then the plant earth, then our solar system. Farther yet you see the Milky Way, then our galactic companions, then the local supercluster. You start
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ShareMetabolism and How Muscles Work Metabolism
As athletes we all have some sort of training plan whether it is a causal workout routine to a highly structured and detailed plan. We all know that training will make us stronger and faster, but do you really know what is happening in your body when you train? In the following article I will give an overview of what is happening in our bodies during training. I’ll cover homeostasis, metabolism, and energy metabolism and I hope that you come away with a better understanding what is happening within
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