Thursday 04/29/10

Time: 7:30 p.m.




Hang Snatch
5 x 1
Work up to the heaviest weight you can - let's see if we can set some new PR's!


Compare to 04/21/10.


10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps of:
Wall Balls, 20#/15#
Pull-ups


Here is an except from this article that I think helps explain the problem with "weight management" in many cases.  While a pound of muscle WEIGHS the same as a pound of fat, it doesn't necessarily LOOK the same and certainly doesn't function the same.  If a person mico-weighs themselves, they can get distracted by the numbers on the scale and miss the changes in how they look and more importantly how they feel and function.  It also touches on the importance of diet and how a person needs to consume good calories to produce muscle.  


"However, if your weight stayed exactly the same and we theortecially took off 5 lbs of fat from you and replaced it with 5 lbs of muscle, you would weigh exactly the same, but because muscle is more "dense" than fat, the 5 lbs of muscle takes up less space and so you would appear slightly leaner and/or thinner.

A person can not add actual true muscle weight though without being in a calorie excess. A starving person who lifts weight is not going to build much muscle if at all and they are not going to gain weight without having the extra raw material available for the muscle to be build. You can't build something from nothing. They may become leaner looking. Now, if they were able to build some muscle, they will do at the cost of some other tissue as you can not violate the laws of physics. So, it is possible that they may burn up some of their fat and use those calories to help build some muscle but it would not be much muscle at all." 


Taken from National Health Association and the American Natural Hygiene Society at healthscience.org

Lori gettin some air!