Muscle fitness – it’s never late to begin

Muscle never turns into fat and fat never turns into muscle. Before you think about muscle fitness, cut down your flab. Good news! Studies show that even people in their 70's can improve both muscle endurance and strength with muscle fitness programs done 3 days a week. But what you want is choose the right equipment and right kind of exercises.

Of course, women don’t usually develop large bulky muscles as men, when they do strength training. But don’t think that they will not achieve muscle fitness. They gain strength at the same rate as men. However, the reason for the above discrepancy is the hormone differences among men and women. In fact muscle takes up less space than fat. By training for muscle endurance and strength, women too can achieve muscle fitness.

Strength, is the term used to describe the ability of the muscle or muscle group to exert maximum force. Endurance is the ability to do repeat work and the power is the rate of doing work. Gaining muscle fitness means improving the above three factors. For achieving muscle fitness a suggested order of exercises is there, which engages muscle at upper legs and hips, chest and upper arms, back and posterior legs, lower legs and ankles, shoulders and posterior upper arms, abdomen, and anterior upper arms, in that order.

Circuit Training program which combines leg press, chest press, bench step, abdominal crunches, shoulder press, jumping rope, lat pulls, tricep extensions, running in place for minute a hard pace, biceps curls, quadriceps (knee) extensions, and hamstring curls (leg curls) is usually taken up fin a muscle fitness regime. There are advanced programs for improving the muscle strength and endurance more. There are many different pieces of equipment such as benches, multi-gyms, power racks and smith machines that can be used  to keep your muscles fit.

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About The Author:

Praveen Menon is a successful author and publisher at http://www.1st-at-fitness-equipment.com.  Recommending Home Gyms, Treadmills, Exercise Bikes, Elliptical Trainers, Rowing Machines, Weight Benches, Inversion Tables, Heart Rate Monitors, Trampolines, Weights & Dumbells for consumers.
16-06-04