Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Diet + Muscle Training. PART--1

Brief Introduction---

 Food can be classified as per their nutritive value as----

MACRONUTRIENT
  1. CARBOHYDRATES(CHO)
  2. PROTEIN
  3. FATS

MICRONUTRIENT

  1.     WATER
  2.    VITAMINS
  3.   MINERALS
     BODY uses calories 4 work & we get calories from our diet,as follows--
   
  1.    1 gram of carbohydrate gives us 4 kcal of calories to the body
  2.     1 gram of protein gives 4 kcals
  3.     1 gram of fat gives 9 kcals.

 Thus fat is the MAIN fuel 4 MARATHON or long distance run whereas carbohydrate is the fuel for small
distance run or 4 acceleration i.e. increasing our speed.
    But to run MARATHON  we require some amout of good & most importantly FUNCTIONING / STRONG muscles especially leg muscles..THEREFORE lets first train them to sustain this mammoth effort.

1--SQUATS----
  • Many types of squats can be performed to train different muscles of the leg
  • usual/narrow squats helps in building the GLUETS that gives us both the stability plus the speed, but 4 that too we require to train them accordingly.
  • by doing the WIDE squats we relive pressure off the GLUTES thereby training other muscles eg the adductors,hamstring more stronger training.
  • squats basically is called compound exercise which means by squatting we train-gluteal muscles,the hamstring,quadriceps mostly &&& mildly even the calf muscles,back muscles,etc.

2--LEG EXTENSIONS---
  •  this exercise is done on the leg extension machine
  • here our focus is mainly on the quadriceps
  • since quadricep femoris is mostly 4 increasing the speed,therefore while training this muscle we should load it with more weight & do just 8-10 repetations.
  • other muscles of the quadriceps group do give us the strength to run long distances therefore, while training quadricep group as a whole our princple should be less weight with more repetation e.g.1 set of 20 repetation && 3-4 sets at a time.

3--LEG CURL---
  • This exercise too is done on leg curl machine.
  • it develops our HAMSTRINGS muscle group .
  • its aim is balancing the strength of quadriceps as it is its bang oppqsite muscle group.
  • so go slow that is less weight with more repetation.

NOTICE----

 Quadricep group muscle is inhertantly more stronger than hamstring group, therefore avoid carrying same weights....I mean that u can lift higher weight with ur quadricep group....please do not try to lift same amount of weight with ur hamstrings as with ur quadriceps......

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