Muscles play a super important role in a woman’s life. There are three types of activities broadly to do that, weight training, endurance exercise and stretching. We all are aware of how proteins and muscles are essential components in our daily routine. However this article will touch upon some relatively unknown but interesting facts.
Benefit Number Three – increasing the number of cells in the body
Our body in made up of lakhs and lakhs of cells. Some of them like WBC live for about four hours while others like brain cells last for a lifetime. Each and every part of the body like tissues, organs, muscles, skin, hair, etc is made of cells. Some cells like the skin cells are constants getting old and shed from the outside while new cells are created from within.
Muscle building is a direct way to increase the number of muscles tissues and cells. This will increase the power generation within your body since each cell is a power generator with its own nucleus and mitochondria. In this way muscles give you more strength and energy to go through the day.
Benefit Number Two – Remove the main reason of tiredness
Muscles bring in strength to your body. The strength to get though your daily activities. It is the muscles who are going to do all the heavy lifting. But this idea that only those involved with heavy work or lifting a lot of items are supposed to build muscles is wrong. It is always better to have good and well build muscles even if you are not going to fully use them all day long.
Well toned up muscles can work all day long without any sign of complaint.
Standing for long hours in the kitchen or a long distance walk to work. All that needs some well toned muscles.
Benefit Number One – A beautiful bouncy hair and glowing skin
Normally no one would associate beautiful features with muscle building but here is the connection.
Skin, hair, nails are all tissues made by protein. The food we eat is digested in the stomach and proteins are broken down into amino acids which are again rebuild to form muscles and tissues.
Once you get into muscle building, protein synthesis also improves in your body. This will help will all those tissues associated with beauty and good looks. But you do need to take care of certain points.
Points to keep in mind
- Be selective with the quality of protein you are eating. Good quality protein are the ones which have complete chain of amino acid profile. Examples are eggs, red meat, fish and poultry. Diary products like paneer or cheese also have a good quality protein profile. One awesome Indian dish is sambar which is a combination of dal and veggies which has a complete profile too. Peanuts are the worst quality of protein, so better stay away from them.
- Weight training with light weights are the best option for women. Endurance training like swimming or cycling are also great but do not begin it all of a sudden. Such exercises need a lifetime of practice and training.
- Yoga especially suryanamaskar are a good combination of breathing, stretching and strength exercise. Do it regularly.
- Stop nibbling at food or eating at regular intervals. Sipping that amazing tall plastic glass from your favourite coffee shop is a really bad idea. It will unnecessary spike insulin and blood sugar which will disturb your hormonal balance and interfere with protein synthesis.
- Plan for two meals a day and let those meals be a balanced diet with lots of veggies and good quality protein.
- Alcohol absolutely destroys protein and muscle building. It causes even greater havoc with female bodies because of the relative lesser amount of blood as compared to a male.
- Strength building without weights will give you slow results, but they will be long lasting.