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LAZY LAZY LAZY.........

GENERATING SOME FAT DEPOSITS FOR WINTER.......

Brain and Calories

This is a strange title isn’t it?

I’ll tell you what is this all about. Did you know that a well “trained” brain can consume almost 50% of the entire calories intake? Can you imagine, you intake 2000 calories, and then sit down in front of a chess game and play until you lose 1000 calories! With no sport, just “mental sport” :) ok let me explain:

One of the greatest masters of memory – Gary Kasparov, chess Champion, use to workout mentally and fiscally every day. It is understandable, if you realize that professional chess demands a huge emotive control, it produces big tensions. To give you an example, in the last chess contest, Gary Kasparov played against Kerpov, which lasted for many months. Kerpov loosed 15 kilos, and at the end he lost the champion, and presented very bad psychophysics conditions. On the other hand, we have the champion Gary Kasparov, that workout every day with a personal trainer, with aerobic exercises has running, to maintain the brain well irrigated. The preparation for this kind of champions is similar to an athlete, including diet! Great amounts of pasta and carbs, to give the brain all the resources he can need. Making a PET scanning to several professional chess players, scientists have realized that, in moments of huge brain demands, it can use almost 50% of all body energy.

Pretty impressive hum?....

Source: LA MEMORIA – EL ARTE DE RECORDAR. Alberto Oliverio

SANTIAGO - FINISTERRA = 93 Kml

DAY 1= SANTIAGO TO NEGREIRA ( 25 Kml)


The view of Santiago' cathedral

on my way to Negreira


DAY 2= NEGREIRA TO OLIVEIROA (33Kml)


on my way to oliveiroa



DAY 3= OLIVEIROA TO FINISTERRA (35Kml)


The Albergue in Oliveiroa

litle lady, on the mountains, lost in the middle of no where!...

AND FINALLY FINISTERRA!!!!


after 5 hours walking in mountains, I had the vision of the sea :)

Finisterra's port...
me.... at the 0,00 kml.... :) it's the end!!! Fim da terra!

DRUGS, SPORT & METABOLIMS

soon.....

Genetics Muscle Hyperplasia

Today we will talk about some genetics and hereditary alterations of the muscle tissue. This image you see above is a male from the breed "Charolais".
It presents Muscle Hyperplasia. This breed was selected on porpous because it doesn't presents the gen for miostatina.

Miostatina is the negative regulator for the muscle growing; that means that controls how much your muscle proliferates.

Like this they obteined a breed with more meet, less fat, wich meens more product, and more money. But, of course, there is always a problem. By selecting this gen they were also selecting a breed with a very thin skin, and with bone problems.... often this breed presents less bone density...

my first fartleck

This was my first FARTLECK workout (have no idea what does that mean...) , it was very relaxed, I don't know if it is considered a "fartleck workout" (so please Rogério answear to my question)!!
I did not monitored my time or pace at any moment, I was just trying to feel and listen to my body, to have conscious of speed and other motor/body sensations.

Sometimes it was dificult to maintain a certain speed, it is very diferent, you have to be very concentrated, and keep pushing yourself!
"maintain the speed!! coomon quadriceps you can do it!!!!"

I felt my heart (i usualy never feel my heart rate incresing that much), I felt my legs and feet joints! and when I arrived home I was doblesweet! and RED!!! I never get red when I run!!!!

At the end it was a positive experience!!! to repeat!!! I want to achieve at least 5'00'' to my average pace....

Did you knew, that heart metabolism is ONLY aerobic?

Did you knew that heart metabolism is ONLY aerobic?

There are 3 kinds of muscle in our body. I will refer in this post 2 of them, the skeleton muscle and the cardiac muscle. The skeleton muscle is all the muscle that we use to move our self's, to run, to walk etc... It is associated with the bones.

The cardiac muscle it's our HEART!

The skeleton muscle has 2 kinds of metabolism: aerobic (when exists oxygen) and anaerobic (when there is no oxygen). As we all know, when we do sport we breath harder, because our muscles require large amount of oxygen, but when it doesn't exists the muscle will use the anaerobic metabolism which consists in fermentation; producing ultimately acid lactic between the fiber (that's why we have stiffness in muscle after work out!! Well people like me that stretch 1 hour don't have this kind of problem :) Anyway...

The cardiac muscle only works oxygen' presence! Which means that our heart will never have acid lactic iin it, and will never have stiffness!! Isn't it amazing?? Could you imagine have heart stiff after work out??? LOL! For me it sounds funny to think that our heart prefers to die of hypoxia than to do fermentation!!!! LOLOOL

Hope you liked this post! please feel free to coment and correct my inglish :)