Metabolic Fitness

Poor metabolic fitness is growing at an exponential rate as people lead increasing sedentary lives, stuff themselves with various combinations of fat, flour, sugar and potato, drink more and more alcohol, cola and bovine milk and live lives that swing between stressed-out-of-their-brain and quiet desperation.

There are plenty of medical prescriptions that are designed to slow down the increase of poor metabolic fitness, but that’s not the same as restoring poor fitness to good.

That’s because poor metabolic fitness is, in the main, related to fitness and diet, and only on the rarest of occasions can medical solutions fix fitness and diet problems.

THE METABOLIC FITNESS ENGINE

Metabolic fitness is the term given to describe the efficiency of the system that delivers oxygen and essential nutrients to cells and removes waste products from them. The system is driven by the ‘metabolic engine’ that resides inside your torso.

The metabolic heath engine is responsible for optimal cell function

A more detailed look at the metabolic engine outlines its principal functions.

Poor metabolic fitness is intimately connected to the outside environment and the internal environment (mental health).

Most people are not well acquainted with the underlying causes of metabolic dysfunction. Similarly with those physicians who prescribe drugs to mask the symptoms – without prescribing fitness and diet solutions – and without measuring, managing and monitoring those prescriptions.

You can be certain that headaches are not caused by a lack of Panadol, depression is not caused by a lack of Zoloft, reflux is not caused by a lack of Mylantin, abdominal pain is not caused by a lack of Prilosec

High blood pressure is not caused by a lack of Avapro, high blood cholesterol is not caused by a lack of Lipitor, high blood sugar is not caused by a lack of Gliclazide anymore that piles are caused by a lack of Anusol!

An aim of the My Fitness Record concept is to not only store the results of fitness related assessments, but to provide you with every encouragement and incentive to keep yourself in good metabolic health.

THE METABOLIC HEALTH DEFRAG

Have you ever watched your computer defrag? You may well ask, ‘What is a defrag?’

Well, to keep a long story short, and in layman’s terms, when your computer saves information to the hard disc it can tend to do it in a chaotic fashion. Bytes of the one document can be saved in different places on the disk.

The net effect of this chaotic placement of data is that it slows down the retrieval of the information. It takes longer for documents to open up. Over the weeks, months and years the ghosts in the machine appear to be slowing it down.

Microsoft describes it thus:

‘Disk Defragmenter consolidates fragmented files and folders on your computer’s hard disk, so that each occupies a single, contiguous space on the volume. As a result, your system can gain access to your files and folders and save new ones more efficiently. By consolidating your files and folders, Disk Defragmenter also consolidates the volume’s free space, making it less likely that new files will be fragmented.’

Here’s what the defrag process looks like on your computer:

There’s a big difference.

When people embark on a metabolic defrag that involves a vigorous aerobic exercise program a similar thing happens. Resting heart is lowered. Blood pressure and blood glucose come down. Percent body fat is lowered. They sleep better. They feel better. The list goes on; the benefits are legion. Of course, diet is also an important metabolic defrag component.

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