"Amazing Examples Of Progressively Adaptive Change With Regard To Health, Disease, Strength & Aging"
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"Otherwise Unknown Amazing Revelations & Discoveries Of Dr. Alterwein Regarding Exercise"
[Introducing One Of Dr. Alterwein's 'Lifestyle Related Medicine' Practical Applications]
"Addressed To Medical Doctors & Other Persons Interested In The Advancement Of 'Exercise' Into The Future"
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I would further merely introduce at this time the term Endurobicssm which I have coined, and which would entail
"The Repetitive Application of Differential Pressures and Stresses to the Body [a form of 'exercise'] and Posturing Motions ['meditative-like positions'] Performed Rhythmically To Music [a form of 'dance'] While In An 'Altered State of Mind' [a form of stress management enhancing the mind/body connection] and supported by the ingestion of certain foods ['tailed fit' dietary regimes]...[see Video Demonstrations at Dr Alterwein.com]
Note further: this 'New Science' actually stems from an extension of Conventional Medicine, but interrelated and combined with numerous other fields, prominent among which would be Fitness of Body, Psychology and Emotional Well Being of Mind, and Nutritional & Food Factors...among numerous others.
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Please Note: [While bodybuilding and aerobics works on muscles and stamina as via fitness trainers, etc., I work not only on those modalities, but on practically the entire body, both inside and out, almost all body systems--muscles, bones, lungs, heart, skin, face, etc--and in both healthy and diseased states of the body!] As You can see, I am making a great deal of information available to the public free of charge. Also, a great deal of the information of this Web Site leads toward the actual method I used to actually transform the body and so on. ...Specifically, I have developed hundreds of varying motions of the body, postures, specific exercises, etc--as noted above via the 'hands-on' methods I developed called Endurobics, and other multiple techniques.
So, what I am saying here...you can read the information on this web site and study it...but ultimately, to really be able to make change, if at all, the video and book would be needed. That's just the way it works. I Have included some sample video segments on this web site, but the web technology leaves much to be desired. In other words, check out both the video and the book. The price is totally reasonable. My intentions this regard are sincere. Thank you. ------------ Oh, one more thing. Better yet, you can contact me personally, for My Services. For a reasonable fee, I will personally guide you through the process, whatever the needed changes need be--loss of weight, contoured body, offsetting aging related changes, or doing something about a number of illnesses, from heart to lung to musculoskeletal and all sorts of medical conditons [even post surgical cardiacs--as you can see from my personal results after surgery, I'm an expert at that!] (and often, but not always, in addition to the therapy or treatment or whatever treatment you might already be on or have been on, although the processes, procedures, methods used, etc, cannot be determined until I would see and evaluate you, obviously). Contact me Via EMail about your problem. I'd be more than glad to help! |
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Cardiovascular Conditioning: Aerobics vs Resistance Or Weight Training - New Revelations----------
---How about this? I once had a 38 year old long distance runner come to me for my services. He wanted to develop more upper body muscle, and strength.
---The way it generally works, long distance runners, doing running only, use their legs, not their upper bodies. The upper body muscles therefore tend to be weakened, and the bones not as mineralized as otherwise.
---In general, the upper body is often frail-looking. Being that the legs are used in running, the leg bones are usually stronger, the bones more mineralized, the muscles wiry, but not necessarily full, depending upon the age. The older the runner, the more wiry the legs appear to be while the younger runners tend to have fuller legs.
---...You'll also notice, long distance runners tend to look older than their age. That's significant. It's probably a clue as to why I have observed people doing primarily aerobics, and after a period of time, generally tend to look older!
---It’s common knowledge that running is an aerobic exercise, and routinely it is stated that to be ‘cardiovascularly fit’ one must do aerobic exercise.
Fine, but now let's advance that knowledge into the future and learn what it really means to be 'cardiovascularly fit'!
---Let's advance that knowledge into the future to the recognition of some insights I've discoverd...insights which would become obvious to any medical doctor who has made the effort to add to his medical knowledge an additional knowledge about the multiple lifestyle factors and fitness.
---I nticed that this 38 year old individual was proud to be able to run on a treadmill at about seven miles per hour on a zero incline, his pulse rate about 120 beats per minute. When the incline was increased to about three degees, the pulse rose and stabilized at about 135 beats per minute. He handled it fine, no signs of any significant degree of strain. Upon increasing the incline to about six degrees, his pulse continued to rise and stabilized after a couple of minutes at about 150/min. He was beginning to look strained. With an eight degree incline however, his pulse rate progressively and rapidly rose to the 160’s, then the 170’s. The pulsatile strength of each beat of the radial pulse had lessened in intensity, lacking the forcefulness I’d felt at a lower rate.
---His breathing had also became somewhat labored and eventually it became too labored for him to continue. The proudness of his ego had come to a halt, and he gave some such excuse to the effect, “I’m not used to jogging up an incline like that.”
---I know, I thought to myself, realizing he had probably conditioned himself to jogging flat as opposed to going up an incline. I remember having thought to myself that his pulse had risen higher and gotten weaker than it otherwise might have done so had he trained or conditioned himself differently.
---I have discovered methods of conditioning the cardiovascular system in such a way as to have the effect to allow a runner such as this to exercise at the higher level of intensity of exerecise (seven miles per hour, eight degree incline) not only with no visible strain nor significantly labored breathing, but also with a much lower, and most significantly, with a much more powerful pulse than he’d demonstrated for me as noted above!
---After an adequate period of rest wherein his pulse rate had come down to normal and he had begun to feel fine, I then instructed him to do a seated chest press, a typical strength training exercise (as opposed to aerobic exercise). He began to do a set of repetitions with a weight of 80 pounds, but within just a few repetitions his face had become visibly strained, his arms shaking as he was pushing the weights. The 80 pounds of weight was obviously heavy to him. He made an excuse again. “I told you. My upper body is weak. I need to develop strength in my arms.”
---...He’ll need to develop a lot more than that, I thought to myself as I noted his pulse rate to have rapidly increased from a rate of 65 beats per minute to 130!
---You see, I’ve discovered that the strength of skeletal muscles is dependent upon the effectiveness with which the circulatory system (the heart, blood vessels, etc) delivers blood to those muscles, and that this in turn is dependent not only upon an increased heart rate, but most significantly it is dependent upon the increase of forcefulness with which the heart beats!
---In short, I have theorized that while the typical reference to ‘cardiovascular conditioning’ via aerobic exercise relies on an increased heart rate, with weight training the marked contraction of the muscles impedes the passage of blood. This in turn necessitates a more forceful beat of the heart, rather than a more rapid one which will not suffice. After all, no matter how rapidly the heart beats, it needs ‘force’ to push the blood through the muscles.
---The obvious conclusion, I’ve realized that while aerobic exercise enhances the delivery of blood via a more rapid beat, weight training necessitates a more powerful beat.
---No wonder you’ll find me jogging up a fifteen degree incline on a treadmill or doing weight training or endurance training (a form of which I’ve termed “endurobics”). I’ve been interested in increasing the strength of the beat of the heart and not just its rate!
---Few people in the world, if any, realize what I’ve just said. And it would also account for the fact that the long distance runner in the example above, having become conditioned to aerobic exercise only (via an increased heart rate), had difficulty when he tried to jog up an incline or do weight training. After all, just like most all other people (from exercise physiologists to personal fitness trainers, and so on), he equated ‘cardiovascular fitness with aerobic exercise only.’
---In other words, most people do not realize that ‘cardiovascular fitness’ requires not just aerobic exercise, but more significantly it requires endurance training and strength training as well as multiple other forms of different and varied exercises which I’ve developed and which would give the heart beat added strength!
---I’ll leave these realizations up to research scientists to figure out over the next fifty years or so. In the meantime, what should we be realizing here?...
---...that there is a more highly scientific and effective method which should bring about markedly greater levels of conditioning of the entire body besides the cardiovascular system.
---If it works, fine. If not, which is highly unlikely, that’s okay too. No harm done. For one, I’m not about to wait, as can be readily observed not only by my markedly higher levels of conditioning and strength than otherwise, even after severe cardiac surgery, but also by the higher levels of conditioning than otherwise could be obtained by many of the people I’ve personally fitness trained!
---And again, how did I figure this all out? By my having simply combined my underlying knowledge and experience in medicine with that of the education and experience as of a personal fitness trainer!
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A Note To Medical Doctors:
---Remember, with your knowledge as a medical doctor you can learn from me what has taken me years to learn and put into effect. ---Remember, Lifestyle Related Medicine is a combination and extension of conventional medicine long overdue combining medicine and fitness and a whole host of other related fields of learning which together emphasis the 'whole' person rather than just a part, and the practice of which should be both much more effective, successful and safer for the average patient. ---The exercises, especially at first, would be of much less intensity than otherwise and less ominous to the unfamiliar patient. They would also be based on knowledgeable and more contolled methods than otherwise, and well thought out with the client’s underlying status of health and/or disease being taken into consideration. Many times this would have the further effect of offsetting and/or delaying many of the signs and symptoms normally attributed to disease and/or aging. |
---I remember shortly after my total body transformation in my late forties [100 pound body fat weight loss, 25 pound muscle gain] I observed a bodybuilder in a gym doing a weight training exercise commonly known as a lat pullover. He was lying on a bench on his back, arms streched far back over his head, repetitively lifting a dumbell. I asked him what he was doing. He said he was increasing the size of his chest in preparation for a bodybuilding contest. You’re kidding, I thought to myself. How is that possible?
---“How long will it take you?” I asked.
---“A couple of months,” he said. “Then my chest will be at least an inch or two wider”!
---Unbelievable, I thought, immediately recognizing that many medical conditions might be relieved, alleviated, or helped in some way since an increased chest cavity should mean an increased volume within the chest and within which the lungs could expand. Pulmonary doctors think of various pulmonary volumes in health and disease. One in particular, the Vital Capacity, the greatest volume of air that can be inspired in one deep breath, can not only be compromised by various disorders of the lungs and chest cavity, but it is known to routinely decrease with age.
---I thought to myself, “Could it be that a bodybuilder, without realizing it because he or she would know so little about medicine, actually had the answer to some of the most serious disorders of the chest cavity and lungs, as well as an answer to certain deteriorations of the lungs which occur with age? And what other exercises were there that could have similar effects on the vital capacity as well as on other lung volumes, not to mention other aspects of the lung deterioration that occurs with various diseases and with age?
---Again, my knowledge as of a medical doctor along with simple observations I had been able to make as a personal fitness trainer were coming into play!
---In an exercise physiology course I took about ten or eleven years ago when I became certified as a personal fitness trainer, the professor said that while lung volumes such as the Vital Capacity could not be changed by exercise, as well as other lung volumes, one particular lung volume could be changed by aerobic exercise, such as from exercising on a treadmill.
---...That lung volume is called the Tidal Volume, or the amount of air breathed in and out comfortably while at rest.
---Immediately, I remember having asked myself, “Why? Why is that so? Why was it that only one lung volume could be changed by aerobic exercise, and not the other lung volumes?
---Actually, after thinking about it awhile, the answer became obvious [theory of course, but darn good theory], and having obtained that answer, I then realized that it also gave me the answer as to how to go about changing the other lung volumes.
---...Again, the significance of all this? Well, to be able to change the lung volumes would go hand in hand not only with the potential to offset symptoms of certain lung related diseases, but it could also mean offsetting many of the effects of aging of the lungs.
---...This would in turn enhance the viability of the entire body, since all tissues throughout the body are dependent, to one degree or another, on the efficiency of gaseous exchanges (oxygen, carbon dioxide, etc) by way of the lungs. And it would also mean that the restricted expansion of the lungs noted to occur with age did not necessarily have to occur to the degree it was occurring!
---In short, my reasoning was based on the ‘use it or lose it principle,’ the application of which I have expanded beyond its well known relationship to the growth of muscles, to its application to tissues throughout the entire body. Specifically, I realized that most people doing aerobic exercise do so at a level wherein they are just short of becoming out of breath. In other words they are exercising at that level wherein they are using the Tidal Volume!
---No wonder, I said to myself, the Tital Volume is known not to deteriorate with aerobic exercise. During aerobic exercise the Tidal Volume is the volume that is being used. So, along this same line of reasoning I might also theorize that the Vital Capacity is not maintained by aerobic exercise because this particular volume is not usually being used during aerobic exercise!
---So, I asked myself, What if I figured out which exercises would make use of the Vital Capacity? Could I then prevent the Vital Capacity from deteriorating to the extent it does with age? Quite likely the answer to this should be yes. And that’s when I thought of the bodybuilder who’d used the lat pull down to expand the volume of his chest, the very volume which could have a direct effect on the Vital Capacity!
---Again, I’ll leave the research scientists to spend years to document what I’ve just said. What their answers will be, as you can see, are already obvious. In the meantime I’ve gone on to figure out which exercises, done which way, and at what intensity levels and so on, would affect which lung volumes and other aspects of lung function, as well as help to offset the restricted expansion of the lungs which is normally found to occur with aging...and evidently which doesn’t have to occur!
---Again, the ability for this to work depends not only upon knowing which exercises to do and how, etc, but also upon how well a client or patient or any given individual will follow instructions and religiously carry out these exercises!
---And if it works, it works. If it doesn’t, no harm done. But then again, in all probability, knowing all these details and so on, one would be quite short-sighted not to realize that these methods would work! After all, by virtue of the medicine involved along with the incorporation of the lifestyle related factors I have been talking about and other modalities, it should be totally obvious that a world of wonders regarding health, fitness and aging could be opened up such as this world has not heretofore seen before!
On The Extraordinary Relations Of The Pulse To The
Transformation Of The Human Body
As Seen Through The Eyes Of Dr. Alterwein
....Lifestyle Related Medical Doctor----------
The Pulse As Seen By Medical Doctors
Vs Personal Fitness Trainers
---As medical doctors we check the pulse at various locations throughout the body for regularity, strength, and so on, and interrelate and evaluate the multiple varieties of these pulses to underlying diseases, medical conditions, and etc.
---Chinese medicine claims many different types of pulses--such as those of the most minute variations of strength, location, etc of the radial or other pulses--wherein the nature of the patient’s health, relationships to illness, and status of internal organ systems can be determined for any given individual.
---In other words, it is not enough to just take a pulse and check its rate, as fitness trainers are often taught to do. With this limited knowledge and experience of such non-medically trained individuals, a great deal of information can not only be lost, but missed, and unfortunately often with dire consequences. For example, dire consequences can be brought about by failure to check for and understand the ramifications of the regularity or lack of regularity of the pulse rate, its intensity and forcefulness, and so on...before, during, and after a variety of exercises and/or combinations or intensities of exercises.
The Pulse As I Have Additionally
Learned To See It
---For example, having combined the knowledge of medicine with that of fitness for many years, academically, educationally, and via my vast experience with a multitude of clients over more than ten years (not forgetting to mention my knowledge obtained from the practice of medicine and surgery for decades),
---...I have figured out numerous relationships between the nature of the pulse to the internal status and/or condition of individuals before, during, and after exercise, or from one exercise to another, or from exercise machine to exercise machine, or from which combinations of exercises are performed, in what order, of what intensities, of what progressions of intensities of exercises, and so on
---...all of which in turn has enabled me to better train, strengthen, condition, progress, and transform any given individual, and, most importantly, to be able to do so more safely than otherwise. Note the following actual example:
---A client of mine was on the rotating stairs, male, early forties, relatively overweight (which is obviously a medically related condition in and of itself), but no other overtly known underlying illness. He was doing five minutes at a time, after which, each time, I would follow his pulse as he momentarily decreased the level of intensity of his exercise as well as the type of exercise by switching to an elliptical machine. Within less than a minute his pulse usually dropped from the 170’s/minute to under 130/minute, a sign of good conditioning, conditioning however specifically related to the rotating stairs and not conditioning with regard to any other exercises...although I have discovered that there is what I call an ‘overlap’ in the level of conditioning for any particular exercise depending upon how many other exercises, techniques, etc one is conditioned to.
---[In other words, the fact that exercise is ‘specific’ for the specific exercise one engages in, is commonly referred to as ‘specificity of exercise.’ That’s exercise physiology. But I have taken that understanding apart and advanced it markedly, again, so as to more successfully be able to condition clients and in turn more effectively ward off many of the signs and symptoms of underlying medical and/or other health related conditions.
---...At any rate, I have learned that there are various combinations of exercises which enhance conditioning. The example I give here with this client is just one technique among hundreds--but always going slowly and carefully as per each individual client’s history, level of conditioning, underlying medical conditions, etc.
---...I have also found that going slowly at lower intensities is generally not only safer, but in the long run, more secure in terms of high levels of conditioning and strength and in alleviating related underlying symptomatology, etc, but only as long as regularity of sessions, and in turn progression, is maintained.]
---At any rate, after one particular five minute episode of my client on the rotating stairs, I noticed his pulse was not dropping as rapidly as it had been doing so previously, and there was a very slight decrease in the pulsatile intensity of the radial pulse, in its forcefulness or power or what have you.
---...Over the years I have often taken this as a warning sign of impending problems even though the pulse in this instance did soon drop to under 130/minute. I asked my client how he felt. “Wonderful,” was his answer. No dizziness, no lightheadedness, no inkling of nausea, nor any other detectable symptoms.
---“I think you should take a rest,” I said.
---“Why?” he asked. “I’m feeling great, and I’m just getting started.”
---“Do me a favor,” I said, “lie down here.” There was another machine close by wherein he could lie down comfortably.
---“What’s up? I feel great,” he said. Before answering iI checked his pulse again. It had dropped to under 100/minute and felt good to me, secure, a firmness to it, strong.
---“Well, if you had continued,” I said, “there’s a good chance you might not have been feeling so great.” I continued to check the pulse. It continued to feel fine. “How do you feel now?” I said.
---“Actually, I feel a lot better,” he responded.
---“I thought you felt great,” I continued. “Isn’t that what you said?”
---“I thought so too,” he answered, “but I guess I didn’t realize that I was feeling so bad”!
---The bottom line. You don’t take any chances. Fitness trainers are often told that a feeling of faintness or some nausea or light-headedness is a sign to rest the client. They might then ask the client to walk around, or to sit or lie down. To me, I don’t like to wait for those symptoms to occur. The nature of the pulse often gives me a clue well before those symptoms occur, symptoms which I consider potentially ominous, depending of course upon the particular patient being trained, although sometimes I cannot tell. But usually I can tell. To the trainer, it’s just some lightheadness. To the medical doctor it is the forerunner of shock, an overtaxed cardiovascular system. Perhaps an impending collapse of the cardiovascular system, perhaps an impending heart block, perhaps even death if it’s allowed to go on too long!
I like to be on the safe side and take note of even subtle signs, such as if a client’s face looks funny to me (in certain ways I’ve learned to recognize over the years as indicative of too much strain within their body), or if his or her breathing is faintly different in a particular way, or if the nature of the client’s gait changes ever so slightly. There are so many signs I’ve developed a sixth sense for, as to their underlying significance, it sometimes amazes even me as to what can be determined from the simplest of observations. And it’s all come about because of my combined experience as a personal fitness trainer and medical doctor in conjunction with my knowledge in physiology, biomechanics, psychology, even nutrition and mind/body relationships, and many other fields of learning.
---In a case like this, I sometimes like to say, internally the heart and cardiovascular and other related internal organs systems, such as that of the respiratory system and lungs, are ‘decompensating,’ or beginning to do so, however slight. They can’t handle the load, or the stress of that particular exercise at that particular intensity for that partiular time for that particular client’s underlying physiologic and medical status and so on.
---And the stress they cannot handle doesn’t have to be great. It can be mild, many times. One has to be observant. Always thinking of possibilities. Always looking. Always paying attention to the client’s actions, no matter how slight. The intensity needed to decompensate is all relative to the individual client for multiple reasons. What did you [the client] have for dinner last night? Did you get enough sleep? How old are you? What is the status of the client’s conditioning, and with regard to which exercises or motions? What is the nature of his or her underlying medical conditions?
---“Well, I forgot to tell ya Doc. I ate too much last night. I cheated. But boy did that fried chicken and french fries taste great!”
---And while the client might have continued to say something such as “ I think I poured on the salt too much,” I might have envisioned in my mind’s eye a ‘suspension’ of fatty globules floating within and permeating throughout the client’s blood stream... the suspension, in a sense, ‘sludging’ and slowing down the efficiency of the circulation of blood to the muscles, and to other organs being used in the particular exercise being performed, not to mention the possibility of increased ‘pressure’ within the vascular system secondary to salt induced water retention!
---Believe it or not, this latter type of meal ingested just the night before an exercise session (sometimes even two nights before) can have profound effects upon the nature of the client’s ability to exercise, let alone upon the client’s health. Depending upon the client’s underlying physiologic and/or medical status, etc, this type of meal might show up not just as variations in the nature of the client’s pulse, but also in subtleties of the client’s facial expressions and other signs. And if gone unheeded or unrecognized, similar such foods can result in the increased likelihood for the occurrence of some type of cardiac and/or vascular and/or other health related deleterious effect.
---I’ve found that improper or certain types of food, lack of adequate rest, stress, and many other lifestyle factors, can throw the internal workings of the body off, and although the person cannot often tell they are feeling any different, I can often see the effects, however subtle, when I work with them, even the next day!
---Remember, there are amazing interrelations between potential risks, strength and stamina, for any given individual, and with regard to the nature of the exercise being performed, to food, to the mind, to rest, to underlying medical conditions, to the status or level of conditioning of the indvidual, and a whole host of other lifestyle factors. I have discovered many of these interrelations which, for the most part, go unrecognized by most other fitness training persons, and many of which interrelations are yet to be figured out by medical professionals, and thereby come to be commonly and routinely known.
The Established "Target Heart Rate Range/Age Chart" Of
Exercise Physiology
And Its Relegation To Antiquity
---Well established in exercise physiology texts is the idea that the target heart rate usually strived for during exercise should be within a given range, this being so for various physiologic reasons such as the burning of sufficient calories during exercise.
---...This range is often referred to as the ‘target heart rate range.’ It is also well established that this range is directly dependent upon the age group that one is in. Generally speaking, there is a direct line relationship between a decrease in the target heart rate range and an increase in the age of the individual exercising. There are even ‘charts’ often seen on gymnasium walls delineating this ‘target heart rate range/age dependent’ relationship. [For purposes of discussion I will sometimes use the term 'charts' to refer to this age dependent range.]
---So who would ever have considered that the charts might be invalid, that this age related range has been passed down by exercise physiologists and personal fitness trainers and fitness texts and whatnot, without much thought as to what it really means. It’s as if people blindly accept what is told to them even if it makes no sense! In the way of explaining why I say this, consider the following example:
---Imagine two individuals in every way quite similar, except that one is much more conditioned than the other. Additionally, because they both happen to be the same age, according to the chart they should both be exercising in the same recommended target heart rate range.
---Now, imagine further they are also both told to do the exact same exercise, such as jogging on a treadmill with the settings are also exactly the same...the same incline, same speed, same length of time, etc. As such, barring any reasons for some minor differences such as differencies in the efficiences with which they burn calories, etc, they should both be doing approximately the same amount of work, and in turn burning a similar amount of calories, since the burning of calories is directly dependent upon how much work is done. That’s just basic physics.---Fine. But there’s just one problem. The more conditioned individual might have a much lower heart rate than the unconditioned individual, which commonly occurs with increased levels of conditioning, both at rest and while exercising, such as when on a treadmill. Therefore, it’s common sense to realize that while the unconditioned individual might be exercising within the recommended target heart rate range, the conditioned individual might be exercising with a pulse rate well below the recommended target heart rate range!
---So, in order for the the conditioned individual to speed up his or her heart rate to within the recommended range, it would mean that individual would have had to increase the level of intensity of his or her exercise, perhaps by increasing the speed, the incline, or whatever. And when the conditioned individual does reach the recommended target heart rate range, he or she would then be exercising at a higher intensity, doing much more work and thereby burning more calories than the unconditioned person.
---Additionally, this conditioned individual might now be exercising too vigorously and getting out of breath, for example (until of course he or she became conditioned over time to the higher intensity). But then again, the intensity might be so high that the conditioned individual might not be able to adapt to the increased intensity so readily, and thereby find himself or herself straining his or her body too much, even to the point wherein it might be harmful!
---At any rate, as you see see, even though this well established ‘target heart rate range/age related’ guide to a proper level of intensity of exercise, etc. has been used time and again for decades by exercise physiologists and personal fitness trainers and the like, and as you can see from the foregoing explanation, it’s far from reliable, a simple understanding that should have been realized long ago.
---So, it stands to reason, as medical doctors would aptly understand, by always keeping track of the heart rate and its nature, variabilities, etc. before, during and after exercises, etc., a more valid indicator for exercise intensity would thereby be in use, an indicator which is more logical, not to mention the added abilities of the doctor to pick up any irregularities of the heart rate which, I have found, can occur depending upon which exercise, which machine, what intensity levels, and so on, are being used.
---Imagine the non-medically oriented personal fitness trainer who cannot possibly be versed in the subtleties of how medical conditions work...imagine such an individual pushing a client with detected and/or undetected underlying heart disease or with a high susceptibility to heart disease, or stroke, other other cardiovascular disease...imagine such a personal fitness trainer pushing the client to higher and higher speeds on a treadmill and/or levels of incline just to get the heart rate up to a level within the chart’s indicated age related target heart rate range!.
---...A nice way of pushing the client too hard and right into cardiovascular collapse or some type of cardiac arrythmia and/or even a heart attack, or death!
---I mention all this only to point out how stagnant the evolution of knowledge of the fitness profession has become, a circumstance which would readily occur without the ‘hands-on’ input ot the minds and experiences of medical doctors who are educated, trained, and licensed to deal with and care for the body, inside and out.
---Because of my having learned and practiced and participated personally in many of the lifestyle factors as to which doctors have not been properly educated nor trained, it’s no wonder I have come across so many discoveries.
---...It’s no wonder I have learned to develop remarkable control over my body, both physically and mentally, and can teach other people to do the same.
---...It’s no wonder I’d been able to turn my body around practically overnight in my late forties, and it’s no wonder by using this combined knowledge I’ve been able to recuperate so rapidly from the extreme severity of the open heart surgery I’d gone through and almost died from!
---And remember, because of this combined knowledge, I have been able to ‘see’ into the future and realize, much more so than we might ever have realized, that lifestyle factors will one day prove to be the broad umbrella under which the vast majority of diseases (as well as the innumerable signs and symptoms usually, but improperly, attributed to aging) will all be recategorized, and in turn all be redefined as ‘conditions of living improper lifestyles,’ lifestyles however, totally alien to the directives of our underlying inherited genes!
---I leave you with a personal story related to the above. Within eight months after my surgery I’d been able to jog up a five degree incline on a treadmill at a rate of about 4 mph. My pulse often wavered around 90 to 100 beats per minute, a pretty low heart rate in view of the high level of intensity of the exercise I was engaged in!
---I realized that the lower rate could be attributed to the cardiac medications I’d been taking at the time, but not completely. Most of that low rate was, in fact, due to my having been able to rapidly condition myself after the open heart surgery via the use of my techniques. After all, I’d routinely experienced the same low pulse rates with similar intensities of exercise years ago, years before the surgery, when I had not been on any cardiac medications.
---At the relatively high level of intensity at which I was exercising, by jogging up an incline, I was obviously burning a lot of calories, to say the least, despite my pulse rate having been so low...well below my target heart rate range.
---Imagine, however, if I hadn’t known any better and thought I had to get my heart rate up another 30 to 40 beats/minute so as to be within the chart’s recommended target heart rate range in order to most efficiently burn calories. It’s one thing to rapidly become conditioned after surgery with techniques such as I’ve discovered, but it’s another to push yourself so far you end up right back in the hosptial!
On The Reversal Of Bone Demineralization - Revelations You Didn't Know!
Medications Vs The Markedly Enhanced Effects Of
Strength Training...’When Properly Performed’!
Let’s take bones,demineralization, osteoporosis or what have you:
---...Typically, we treat via medications which are often found to decrease, to varying degrees, the rate of demineralization or otherwise. Hypothetically a study might point out that the rate of demineralization with such and such a medication was decreased from let’s say, 15% to 8%. Fine. Only one problem though
---...the bones are still demineralizing! And even if there is more complete reversal (remineralization), as you’ll see, it’s very unlikely the degree of remineralization can compete with that which occurs with resistance training (if the resistance training is performed regularly, and according to certain regimes or inclusive of certain types of exercises, as I have learned to do so while developing and studying what I refer to as ‘lifestyle related medicine’).
---For example, weight training is typically used to strengthen bones via decreasing the rate of demineralization and/or by increasing the rate of remineralization, and thereby having the effect to increase the bone density. But one does not just take the client into a gym and randomly do a series of exercises to increase the bone density! The techniques for muscle training are for muscle training. For bone training, for bone training. Exercise techniques are specific for what you are specifically trying to do, such as specific for the tissue you are trying to change.
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---...The way I do it, via the methods and techniques I’ve developed--so as to apply the appropriate stresses to bones--are well thought out and based upon a diverse array of scientifically related fields, as mentioned above. |
Here is some of the reasoning I’ve used to enhance the
effectiveness of these methods:
---...Bones lift weights. Not muscles. Muscles move the bones. The bones are what supports and moves the weights.
---...Stresses to bones result in correspondingly increased bone density along the lines of stress, whether the stresses are applied longitudinally or transversely or obliquely. It makes a significant difference in the angles at which the stresses are applied to the bones.
---...Only those bones to which stresses are applied have the resultant remineralization effects.
---...The decrease in demineralization and/or increase in remineralization is directly related to the methods used to apply the stresses, the intensity of the stresses applied, the regularity of application of stresses, and many other variations related to the methods used to apply the stress.
---...The decreased application of stresses to bones results in the commensurate demineralization of bones, dependent upon the nature, length of time, and amount, etc of the decreased application.
---...Hence, the importance of applying stresses to all bones. Therefore, the effectiveness of being able to do so will in large part depend upon the proper acquisition of knowledge in medicine as well as in a diverse array of lifestyle related fields from anatomy, to biomechanics, to muscle physiology, and most importantly, to the nature of any underlying musculosketal and/or other medical conditions, their etiologies, methods of treatment, prognosis, and so on.
---...Bone density tests usually check only a limited number of representative bones of all the bones in the body. Therefore, while on the one hand the bone density test results might show good bone density, there might actually be many other bones in the body with poor density, and therefore at high risk for fracture. A bone density test is only as good as the bones it analyzes, although granted, the bones analyzed are usually representative of bones more likely to fracture.
---With all the above in mind as well as by having an understanding of the way medicine and strength training and other scientific fields as indicated above interrelate, it would be simple logic to figure what might happen to the arm bones being utilized if, for example, an elderly lady is just able to curl a one pound weight the first month she begins careful resistance training, while by the sixth month she can curl five pounds.
---...The increase in bone density would have had to have been markedly increased, since the bones (in addition to the muscles) had to have been utilized to bring about the increased functional capability of the elderly lady’s arm(s). Otherwise there would have been a good chance one of the bones being used might have fractured!
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---In other words, with the regular application of stresses to a vast array of multiple bones of the body with methods such as I have devised, the increase in bone density (decrease in the rate of demineralization or increase in the rate of remineralization) would have to be marked, and in all likelihood much greater than the modest effects often attributed to bone remineralizing prescribed medications. |
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---In the case of the elderly lady described above, I like to say the she went from having had a one pound bone (with the capacity to safely curl only a one pound weight) to having a five pound bone (capable of curling a five pound weight). Now, I’m not saying here that the bone density increased five-fold, but it had to have increased a heck of a lot!
---In other words, common sense along with an understanding of the principles of resistance training and etc could lead one to no other conclusion, that although resistance training--properly performed and learned and complied with by the client/patient--can have a markedly greater remineralizing effect on bones than the modest effects often cited for many of the prescribed bone medications, a combination of both modalities might in all probability have the most beneficial effects of all!
---At the risk of repeating myself, but because of its importance, I would like to point out that since prescribed medications have the ability to affect all the bones of the body via their absorption and circulation through the vascular system, this is all the more reason to suggest not only that both modalities be utilized (prescribed medications and the application of stresses), but that the methods of application of those stresses to the bones be both properly explained and taught to the client/patient and carefully thought out as noted above via the methods I’ve described by applying the stresses regularly to all the bones of the body, at many different angles, and by various techniques.
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---II can't tell you how many times I hear that persons who have been exercising regularly in gyms using their own exercise techniques (and who really don't know what they're doing) still break bones regularly and are still routinely found to have marked demineralization of bones. |
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---In view of the foregoing, I have devised a variety of resistive exercises performed to music which can easily be learned by clients and which not only involve the regular application of stresses to most all the bones of the body, but which can also enhance the conditioning of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems at the same time, as well as many of the other organ systems of the body! Additionally, and at your request, I would discuss with you the methods used per patient/client so we might both better be able to evaluate the results.
---Doctors and nurses and pharmacists go to school for years to learn about medications, and they need years more of ‘hands-on’ practical experience prescribing and dealing with medications...with their benefits, their risks, their dangers, side effects, and so on. And it’s not easy to learn, let alone become adept at using and evaluating so many medications, and so many new medications at that, as you well know.
---So what can the personal fitness trainer possibly know about medications and their relationships to fitness and disease and so on?
---For example, how about some irregularities of the pulse, or various arrythmias, which can easily be affected by the nature of the exercises being performed! As physicians, we’re commonly familiar with the fact that minor irregularities such as the occurrence of extra beats tend to dissipate upon increasing the pulse rate secondary to the performance of exercise, an oftentimes common finding.
---...However, having worked so closely and continuously with clients before, during and after exercise--with clients who have had underlying irregularities of the pulse of one sort of another, or the potential for the same...I’ve noticed, secondary to a variety of different exercises, a variety of different effects on the nature of the pulse (and not just upon the pulse rate, but other effects as well).
---...Whether the exercise be aerobic in nature or endurance training or weight training, or depending upon what combinations of exercises and in what order they are performed, a variety of effects on the nature of the pulse can be noted, whether the pulse had been of a normal or irregular nature to begin with.
---Many of these effects will have to be studied by medical researchers in the future. However, for the time being, the variety of effects on the nature of the pulse specific to the nature and type of exercise being performed must at least be recognized.
---...Personal fitness trainers are not trained to do so nor qualified to do so by virtue of their lack of a medical education, and that’s that, just plain and simple.
---In the courses I’d taken in the past related to becoming a personal fitness trainer, a few medications were mentioned. The class was told that medications could have the effect to lower the pulse rate somewhat. Certain medications were delineated. And not much more. That was that.
Make up your own conclusions as to the ramifications of all this when one of your patients is sent to a gym to be trained by a personal fitness trainer lacking in the proper medical knowhow, and oftentimes unlicensed to boot!
---...After all, which is better?
- for your patient to be pushed by the trainer to perform various exercises without any understanding or monitoring of the underlying variations of the pulse?
- or for your patient to be in a gym on their own?
---It’s all a toss up. Either way it’s not good.
---Obviously, better than the two alternatives presented above, it would be ideal for the patient to be ‘personally fitness trained’ and ‘lifestyle trained’ by a professional versed in more than just personal fitness training, but also in lifestyle relationships to disease and exercise, and especially by someone who also has the knowledge and experience as of a medical doctor, or by someone who has been appropriately taught and whose services are directed under the guidance of the proper medical professional!