You see, when you are working out, you are slowly wearing down the muscles and burning all of the energy that is provided to the muscles as well. You simply can’t replace the energy at the rate you consume it. So, muscle fatigue becomes a problem. Sports medicine professionals are all well knowledgeable in exactly how to help professional athletes reduce the problems they experience from muscle fatigue.

What can you do about it? In order to really combat the problems of muscle fatigue, you have to train the body to supply energy faster. Muscles receive energy in two different forms. The first is from oxygen, which creates aerobic metabolism; this is simply the process of creating adenosine triphosphate from oxygen.  Once you deplete the oxygen from the system, the body shifts into anaerobic metabolism.  This creates energy from resources stored within the muscles themselves.

The problem with muscle fatigue is that anaerobic metabolism does not store huge amounts of energy and aerobic metabolism is a slower method to deliver energy to the muscles. This creates a problem for many people and results in them suddenly experiencing muscle fatigue. Professional athletes and those who are highly active are trained to help their bodies deliver energy from oxygen, aerobic metabolism.

You can train your body to efficiently and effectively deliver larger amounts of oxygen to the body and quickly replenish the amount of available energy for the muscles to use. In doing so, you reduce the risk of muscle fatigue and allows a workout to continue for much longer. It can take several weeks or even months to train the body to effectively speed the flow of oxygen enough to keep from experiencing muscle fatigue based solely from a supply of aerobic metabolism.

What else can you do?  Well, as you train, you can also improve the efficiency of motion (resulting a less usage) and the flow of energy in the muscles.  Training will teach you ways to reduce the use of muscles as much as possible to conserve energy. As an athlete you must control energy management to increase your performance and your endurance. Working closely with your trainer, coach and sports medicine doctor you can gather the best ways to encourage your body to conserve energy, while still increasing the flow of aerobic metabolism to your muscles.

Providing the maximum amount of energy to your muscles possible is the best thing you can do in order to ensure that you stay as healthy as possible, and minimize the risk of injury.

It is very important that you always discuss any concerns that you have with your doctor, trainer, or coach. They can assist you in assuring that you take the proper precautions to ensure your body is carefully trained.  You can assist yourself by clearing your mind of things that can get in the way — things that might make you lose focus — things like stress.  A quick way to learn how to deal with stress can be found here.

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So now you’ve decided to restrict your fuel intake.  That’s a good thing.  However, if you wanted to lose weight by only restricting the fuel intake, how long would it take to lose weight?  Consider this: a pound of stored fat contains about 3500 calories.  That means that one pound of fat has more than two full days’ worth of “fuel” for a “normal-sized” person.  That means if you’re 10 pounds overweight, you have 20 full days of unburned fuel inside you.

Would you like to speed things up?  I knew you would.  The obvious thing to do is to boost your “burn rate”.  Any level above your “normal” activity is a boost of your burn rate.  If you’ve been sluggish for a while, you will need to start slowly AND under medical supervision.  With a gradually increasing exercise program you will begin to consume more calories from your stored reserves progressively faster.

Then there’s the question of the flab.  It’s one thing to lose the fat.  It’s another thing altogether to increase muscle mass.  A well-designed regimen will increase your muscle mass, which will boost your metabolism, which in turn will accelerate the rate of fuel consumption (i.e. fat burning).  The really cool thing is that once your muscle mass gets to a certain percentage of your body weight, magic begins to happen.  Your metabolism is going so fast that you actually burn fat while you sleep.  How cool is that?

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