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At the center of everything, the base of it all, once you have gone through all the messy liquids and proteins, you will find the human skeleton. Wrapped and connected through nerves, ligaments, muscles, and tendons, we have mobile skeletal structures.
That form of mobility is called walking or running, depending on your pace. Most people think of muscles as gears or cogs in a machine, and they place the heart as the motor of the machine.
In fact, the heart is just a muscle like the bicep or pectorals major, a much more important and complicated muscle though it may be, it is muscle nonetheless. So in essence, every single muscle is more like a motor, in a very elementary sense.
These muscles will take calories and burn them for energy by bending, contracting, rotating and performing whatever maneuvers necessary to accomplish a single task. The simple act of walking is going to require the use of virtually every muscle in the body, with exception to some of the facial muscles.
With so much muscle use there is going to be an exuberant amount of caloric burn as well, thus making jogging Mother Nature's perfect workout, for fat loss anyway. Each muscle doesn't just move in one direction, it depends a lot on the muscle and the nerves direction of pull.
For every movement you make, your body has got to send an electric pulse through a system of nerves. The nervous system runs throughout the body and all centers in the brain.
So you are running, out of your peripheral vision you see a car heading to bisect your path. Sight is interpreted as an electronic pulse of awareness from the sensation absorbed by the eyes.
The brain takes the information processes it within fractions of a second, and then fires an electric-pulse to the nerves your legs. The nerves then tell the muscles in the leg to turn and bend, thus preventing you from a head on collision.
If each muscle could only move in one direction, people would be very linear and sports would be incredibly boring. Not to mention changing direction would be a process entirely on its own.
Running is generally considered the number one natural exercise that will benefit anyone, but people fail to recognize that the amount of effort put into it is directly going to affect the amount of gain taken out of it. If you are looking to become fit fast, you will have to push yourself harder.
Instead of jogging for 30 minutes, run as fast as you can for three. Intensity makes all the difference.
You want to tear the muscle, that way your body has got to repair them and make them stronger. By simply testing your muscles, you will only get some caloric burn and not any beneficial muscle gain. Destry Masterson is an author who has written hundreds of articles. She publishes articles for http://www.nordictrack.com and recommends them for treadmills.
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