Vitamins That Affect Muscle Function and Bone Density

There are several vitamins that, when in adequate amount,contribute to proper energy utilization, improve exercise performance,and play an important role in the tissue repair that must take place following exercise. Specifically, several of the B vitamins including thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, and pantothenic acid help the body release energy from or metabolize food, build proteins, and repair muscle tissue.

Heart Rate

The heart Rate, sometime called a pulse, is simply the number of times your heart beats every minute. One measurement of a person's fitness is his resting heart rate how hard his heart has to work while the person is sitting.Resting heart rates vary from 60 to 90 beats per minute. Physically fit people and people with good genes have a lower resting heart rate.Less fit people, people on some medications, people dealing with stress, and people who have just come from the coffee shop may have higher resting heart rates. (Caffeine tends to increase resting heart rate.)

Your Heart in Parts

The heart is a muscle that is a larger than your clenched fist.Encased in a protective membrane, it lies in the middle of your chest,just behind and somewhat to the Left of the sternum or breastbone.The lungs are on bothy sides of it and behind it.

Who Is Respinsible ?

You now know the many ways that a personal fitness trainer and nutritional specialist can help a client achieve fitness goals. But sometimes a personal fitness trainer  does all these things right, and the client still doesn't succeed. Even the best personal fitness trainers in the world have clients who drop out of their programs or fail to follow their advice. Ultimately, the responsibility of a client's health lies within the client who refuses to do her part.

Some clients may try to blame their personal fitness trainer for their failings in the gym.Therefore, it is important that clients understand from the beginning that you, as their trainer, cannot do the work for them,ultimately,clients are responsible for their own success or failure. The personal fitness trainer is responsible for creating a program that is as easy as possible for the client to adhere to, but the client must adhere to this program both in the gym and in daily life. Until the client is ready to help himself, there is little chance for success

Working Toward Goals

Once SMART goals are set, a personal fitness trainer plays numerous role to increase the chances of a client attaining the goals. We talked about some of these roles in a previous lesson. First, a personal fitness trainer plays the of teacher, educating clients on safety measures to take while exercising.

A second role of the personal fitness trainer is to coach clients in a variety of workouts to reduce boredom. Personal fitness trainers know that there are numerous ways to work any given muscle group, and they use a variety of workouts to help their clients attain their fitness goals.Finding ways that a client can use his new strength or stamina in everyday life contributes to the likelihood that he will commit to a new lifestyle. Keeping a client's diet varied and interesting also can make a big difference. Just as the body changes during physical workout, the fuel the body needs changes as well.

Obesity and Diabetes

Obesity puts a person at greater risk for developing several lifestyle related diseases. When a person ingests more food calories than his body uses, the excess calories are stored as fat. The American diet is high in fat, and people typically don't operate at the activity level necessary to use all of the calories they consume.

You probably remember learning a little about type 2 diabetes in your first lesson. Type 2 diabetes is a disease in which the body fails to use insulin effectively. Obese individuals are more likely to develop this condition than others. Just as Type 2 diabetes generally is brought on by poor lifestyle choices, many people can reverse this condition by achieving a healthy body weight through proper diet and exercise.

The Modern Diet

The average American diet is high in sugar, fat,and refined carbohydrate. Many Americans choose fast foods for convenience despite these foods lack of nutrition. We are bombarded with advertisements for food and are served gigantic portions. As a result, obesity has become a widespread. problem in both children and adults.Obesity is the condition of having greater than 20 percent of one's total body weight as fat in men and greater that 30 percent of one's total body weight in women.