We all know that water will not boil until it is heated to its boiling point at 100℃. When water boils, it changes from liquid to steam. Exactly at what point will our bodies change body fat to muscles? To build more muscles, you must frequently work your muscles to their extreme working condition. In that situation, your body will break down the body fat to make more muscles to support the increasing physical activity. Just like the workers of a factory, if they constantly have to work overtime to get jobs done, the factory will hire more workers to help the overload. Unfortunately, most exercises and fitness programs require an hour or more for muscles to reach their extreme working condition. On top of this, when one’s muscles have
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the muscles to the ultimate point. For example, a runner who runs thirty minutes every day will gradually build muscles to support a thirty-minute run. His/her muscles will not improve any further, even if he/she continues running every day, unless the speed or the time of running is increased. In fact, if he/she reduced the running time and speed, muscle strength would quickly decrease. This is like a factory that will start to lay off some workers if there isn’t enough work for them to do.
A friend of mine told me that she has been going to the gym for many years, four or five times a week with one or more hours of workout each time. Her weight stays the same, and her body fat and muscle tone all remain the same with no further improvement. It seems that all her exercise and hard work are for nothing. She cannot understand why. The reason is simple. Once you have built muscles to support one hour of a workout, your body is not going to make more muscles, even if you continue your workout every day. In other words, if you want your body to continue breaking down body fat to make more muscles, you must continue to increase your physical activities. That is, if you are a bodybuilder, you must increase your weights; if you do workout every day, you must increase the time or the intensity of the workout; if you are a runner, you must increase your speed or time. Let’s be realistic. We have jobs to do. We don’t have all the time in the world. Most of us cannot afford to spend several hours exercising every day. So, what do we do?
“Chiang’s Exercise” enables you to reach your goal without increasing your time of exercising. The magic bullet of “Chiang’s Exercise” is that when your muscles get stronger, your strength increases. When your strength increases, you can tighten your muscles harder. Then your body will build even bigger and stronger muscles. These sequential processes continue bringing your muscles to their ultimate contraction day after day. Yet you don’t have to increase the time of exercising. Because it still takes about the same amount of time, about five to ten
Exercise” daily, your body will continue to break down the body fat and make more muscles. During middle age years, many people will gain some weight. If you do “Chiang’s Exercise” every day, your weight gain will be an increase of muscles instead of body fat.
“Chiang’s Exercise” gives you the exercise that you need to stay fit. If you practice daily, you will have good physique and muscle tone. It does not help you to build big muscles of a professional bodybuilder, like those shown in magazines. To have that, you need special equipment and you must devote several hours to workout every day. Just like a 100-meter track runner has to work so much harder just to get one-second faster.
“CHIANG’S EXERCISE” HELPS TO PREVENT DEVELOPMENT OF ARTHRITIS:
There are more than one hundred types of arthritis with many different causes and origin.
Exercise may help to prevent some, but not all of them. Two common causes of arthritis are:
1. Mineral deposits in the joints:
Deposits of calcium and mineral in the joint area create roughness in the joint and prevent smooth movement of bones, causing pain and inflammation. For example: A common arthritis in the toes, called gout, is caused by deposits of uric acid crystals in the joints. Most people do not exercise their fingers and toes, therefore, allowing these deposits to accumulate, causing arthritis. In this case, the arthritis is caused by lack of exercise in the joints.2. Worn down of the cartilage:
There are cartilage at the end of each bone in the joint area, which allows the bones to move smoothly and absorbs shock when pressure occurs. There are several reasons of causing erosion of the cartilage. One of the reason is the excessive “wear and tear” in the joints due to over exercising. Nowadays, many people are very competitive and interested in extreme sports, causing damage ofCHIANG’S EXERCISE
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exercising.