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Do you want to move with pain free control and coordination?  Z Health is a training system that uses joint-based techniques to teach you how to rid of this pain.  Weather you're 9 or 90, Z Health is specifically designed to teach you how to use your joints to train the nerves. 

 

It is important to focus training on your joints and the nerves that surround them for the simple fact that your joints are the foundational building blocks of all movement.  Your joints are what allows you to move well -without injury and with maximum control and coordination.  If one joint stops working, every other one must pick up the slack.  Your body can do this for a time, but ultimately you will inquire pain, loss of flexibility, diminished coordination, or loss of speed, power and strength. 

Why do joints fail?  Almost always because they become immobile.  This happens either through lack of correct exercise, poor posture, or bad movement habits.  Z Health is not stretching.  It is a specific system of moving your joints into positions your body no longer allows it to go.  In saying that, you must never move into pain.  You must re-train the nervous system, which is the ultimate source of all movement, coordination, strength, speed, and power!

"The body Always adapts to Exactly what it does."  This is the SAID  ( Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demand) principle in Z Health.  Everything is a skill; and any exercise in less than perfect form, you are training yourself to have less than perfect form.  Your joints are just as important to train as you muscles. If your joints stop working, the muscles can not perform at their highest level.  Move it or Lose it!

 

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We can help you achieve your goal and make sure that you are TOTALLY prepared for your RKC Certification weekend.  Being over prepared means that you'll spend more time learning what and how instead of playing catch up with blistered hands and a sore butt...  

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5.Nutrition Tip – "The Sweet Spot for Losing Fat or Gaining Muscle"

by Brian Copeland, RKC

I've written about various eating methods, food types, etc, etc, etc. Let's talk philosophy for a moment.

There is an optimal amount of food everyone needs and over or under that amount will give results different from what you want.

Take note of the graph below:

What I'm about to show you is hypothetical and will change based on the caloric needs of the individual.

But let us say that to maintain someone's body fat and muscle they need 3000 calories per day.

The old-school thought would be, less calories = fat loss and more calories = muscle gain. Well, yes and no.

As you can see from the model as you eat too many calories you start to gain fat along with the muscle, no one would argue that.

What many people don't understand is that as you get too low with calories the body goes into starvation mode and begins storing body fat like crazy. Here is an analogy for you; if you were going to take a long extended drive in the desert and thought there might not be any gas stations for a long time, might you put a couple extra gallons full of gas in the trunk?

Well to your body, when you are eating too few calories it thinks you are starving and puts some extra fuel (fat) in 'your' trunk (kaboose aka butt, hips, gut, etc.) This is the "Store fat slightly starvation mode" from above.

Now we all know people who have gone on a radically low calorie diet and lost a lot of weight very quickly only to gain it back again. The problem is that since the body can't store energy and it is in an energy crisis, it goes berserk and decreases the size of your fat, muscles, organs (your brain and heart are organs) to drastically lower your basal metabolic rate, the rate at which you burn calories while resting.

When these folks start to eat a little more and get even enough calories to store guess what the body does?

It hordes them! They store all that fat ASAP.

Just like the Mad Max Road Warrior movies where gas was a precious commodity, fat (stored energy) is a precious commodity for your body and it stores it like gang-busters!

What you need is to find your sweet spot where you are eating the right amount of calories to lose the fat but not so few that you go into starvation mode.

This is one of the reasons you know people who can eat junk food and stay skinny, they are at their sweet spot for their metabolism. Junk calories are still calories all the same. More could be said about this as mixing protein with each meal helps prevent insulin response but I digress for now.

For instance, I have a hard time getting enough food, what can I say, I need to eat more?!

I can down ice cream like no one's business and still have a six pack unless I go too low in my calories. Yes, I know, go ahead, be mad at me!

When I don't get enough calories I get "skinny-fat" meaning that my muscle drops and my fat increases, from not eating enough. When I up my calories above 2500 per day consistently (which is still way less than my maintenance) I gain muscle and lose body fat. I am gaining the muscle I should have all of the time but don't because I am not eating enough.

Hey, awareness is step one of fixing the problem, right?

Until next time...

Eat like an Athlete, look good nekkid!

Find out more about Brian Copeland here: http://www.bccorefitness.com/