Tuesday 15 September 2015

How Muscles Work & Grow Part 1

What do Muscles Do?
  • Without Muscles we will not be able to do anything.
  • Muscles let you move your arms and legs and life weights.
  • Muscles move blood throughout the body.
  • Muscles help your intestine digest food.
Working Of Muscles:
  • Muscles are made of special cells that look like long thin tubes, with two sets of sliding fibers.
  • A little protein motor moves muscle fibers together to contract muscles and apart to relax them.
  • During exercise, when we stretch fibers apart, we stimulate muscle cells to grow.
  • When muscles grow they recruit small cells called satellite cells.
  • These satellite cells add proteins, so the muscle fiber gets larger. This is how muscles grow larger.
  • Eating any food, particularly food higher in protein after workout helps muscle to recover faster.
Did you know?




Types of Muscles:

Three types of muscles are key to help blood move throughout your body, to move your limbs and exercise and to help digest food.
1.      Cardiac muscle cells help move blood.
2.      Skeletal muscle cells help you exercise.
3.      Smooth muscle cells help digest food.

Maintaining all types of Muscles is important for our health.

In our next session, we will discuss in detail regarding:
  •        Types of muscles
  •               How to maintain Muscles?
  •               Strength conditioning
  •        How Muscle strength decreases with age?
  •       How healthy and active muscles can be maintains?


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