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What You Must Know About The Diaphragm

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What is the diaphragm?

Diaphram is a large dome-shaped muscle that continuously contracts and relaxes in a rhythmic pattern matching your breath. The same as your breathing, diaphragm actions are often involuntary, and you can exert voluntary control over it for a brief time.

Where is the diaphragm located?

Diaphram is located below your lungs, separating your lungs and heart from your stomach.

What is the function of the diaphragm?

Diaphram muscles serve two primary purposes. [Read more…] about What You Must Know About The Diaphragm

An Introduction To Respiratory System

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Respiratory System Anatomy

Breathing muscles and the respiratory system help the body exchange gases between air and blood and between the blood and its billions of cells via the air passages, pulmonary veins, and lungs. Only the alveoli and the alveolar ducts are responsible for gas exchange in the respiratory system, including most of the respiratory system’s organs.

The respiratory system does more than move air around and exchange gases; it cleans, heats, and humidifies it. Respiratory system organs also influence smell and voice. [Read more…] about An Introduction To Respiratory System

Intentional Breathing | How To Improve Your Stamina and Get Better Results

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Breathing is one of the essential parts of your exercise.

It allows you to perform an exercise correctly, safely and give you the stamina you need, so you don’t get winded during the training.

You can finish up what you have to do and get the result you’re looking for with correct breathing.

Breathing, unfortunately, doesn’t have a specific standard you can memorize and say, well, I’m going to breathe this way all the time.

Your awareness of your body and your fitness level determines how you should breathe. [Read more…] about Intentional Breathing | How To Improve Your Stamina and Get Better Results

Introduction To Type of Muscle Contractions

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Type of Muscle Contractions – A Key to Bodybuilding, Weight Loss, Injury Prevention and Pain Management

Your understanding and use of types of muscle contractions impact your success in losing fat, building muscle, staying fit, or winning at any sport. Your ability to contract your muscles in a balanced way contributes to your long-term pain-free motions and healthy joints.

What is a muscle contraction?

The image of the bulging biceps muscle gives the wrong impression, which can affect the way you workout.

In any bodybuilding pose similar to a biceps pose, you only see one type of contraction. Let’s the record straight.

Muscle contraction happens when the nervous system signal activates the muscle.  The muscle length may or may not change in response to that signal.

How types of muscle contractions are there?

The answer is two. One is often used in popular workouts, and the other is often neglected.

Isotonic contractions are what are often used. In this type of contraction, muscle length changes. [Read more…] about Introduction To Type of Muscle Contractions