So I need to do yoga or something for flexibility
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You'll disappear if you do.FatDino said:
My exercise routine is jogging twice a week, 40 sit-ups and 20 push-ups before bed. I really need to work out more.
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I have tried both yoga and tai chi, both could be relaxing and beneficial. With yoga make sure you start with beginner and work your way up, never push yourself in any of the stretches or trust me it sucks, lol. I've found Tai Chi much more relaxing, a little stretching and it also helps you to relax in general. I actually take Tai Chi at the local gym with hubby, the softer version of course and we have various ages and state of being in our class. But it's wonderful, relaxing and lots of fun.
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Calcium deficiency...take 600 mg of calcium and 200 mg of vitamin D. I was getting them too. Bad enough they would wake me at night. Started taking the calcium and vitamin D and haven't had them since.S-Des said:I don't deserve it. I have a lousy diet and don't stretch regularly. Motivation has never been my strong suit.
ETA: The Vitamin D is to help the body absorb the Calcium. They make Calcium/Vitamin D pills in that exact combination. Walgreens carries them.
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Cramp is lactic acid buildup. Lactic acid comes when your muscles don't get enough oxygen. The way to increase oxygen supply to your muscles is to increase blood flow -- a very hot bath after running (or a very cold one! they have similar effects) dilates your blood vessels and helps to dissipate the lactic acid.
The blood also carries away the waste products of respiration (including the lactic acid), so it helps twofold.
If you find that you're stiff and tend to cramp a lot, you should get a massage, (or massage yourself if possible). This has the same effect as tenderizing meat (which is basically muscle, and the toughness of meat is caused by precisely the same thing, lactic acid!)
Bananas (which you see professional tennis players eat between games) have high potassium content, which replenishes the potassium used in anaerobic respiration and helps alleviate cramp. So eat bananas.
Stretching is also good for cramp, and acts in the same way as a massage. The movement of the muscle fibres when you stretch dissipates lactic acid.
The blood also carries away the waste products of respiration (including the lactic acid), so it helps twofold.
If you find that you're stiff and tend to cramp a lot, you should get a massage, (or massage yourself if possible). This has the same effect as tenderizing meat (which is basically muscle, and the toughness of meat is caused by precisely the same thing, lactic acid!)
Bananas (which you see professional tennis players eat between games) have high potassium content, which replenishes the potassium used in anaerobic respiration and helps alleviate cramp. So eat bananas.
Stretching is also good for cramp, and acts in the same way as a massage. The movement of the muscle fibres when you stretch dissipates lactic acid.
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Bananas make me want to barf. I can't stand the taste of them at all...
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If your muscles tendond, etc., are so tight, you're getting cramps then increasing your flexibility is good - although as mentioned, potassium, calcium, etc. deficiencies will tend to exacerbate if not cause this.
But as far as I'm aware, recent research can find no correlation between stretching and injury - the main reason to strech as far as I'm aware is to warm the muscles up and get the bllod flowing, and this is probpbly what reduces the chances for injury, not how tight the muscle is per se.
If you just want to increase flexibility, that good, but I believe stretching is essentially not much different from athletic activity - you need to warm up: overstreching a tight, cold muscle is itself a prescription for ligament or tendon tears, and if you are very tight, microtears are probobly going to occur anyway, and you'll probobly need to allow for recovory time the same way you'd do with any other type of stress/overstress activity.
Yoga is probobly good, but take it slow, find a reputable teacher, maybe sit in a few sessions first, but I might also suggest Maxalding, which is a somewhat quaint and antique strength training/bodybuilding method, a variation of which was promoted by Charles Atlas as "Dynamic Tension".
There's an interesting page on Maxalding, any student of physical culture would do well to check this out, even if only for historical interest - it explains to me certain morphological differences in comic book art between the "orthodox", or traditional approach to depicting strength, and how it contradicts the sort of morphology that modern body building methods result in.
I've tried it, and I've found it can be a fairly effective way to warm up muscles at least in a low/no impact way.
http://www.maxalding.co.uk/
If the link doesn't come up, just google "maxalding".
But as far as I'm aware, recent research can find no correlation between stretching and injury - the main reason to strech as far as I'm aware is to warm the muscles up and get the bllod flowing, and this is probpbly what reduces the chances for injury, not how tight the muscle is per se.
If you just want to increase flexibility, that good, but I believe stretching is essentially not much different from athletic activity - you need to warm up: overstreching a tight, cold muscle is itself a prescription for ligament or tendon tears, and if you are very tight, microtears are probobly going to occur anyway, and you'll probobly need to allow for recovory time the same way you'd do with any other type of stress/overstress activity.
Yoga is probobly good, but take it slow, find a reputable teacher, maybe sit in a few sessions first, but I might also suggest Maxalding, which is a somewhat quaint and antique strength training/bodybuilding method, a variation of which was promoted by Charles Atlas as "Dynamic Tension".
There's an interesting page on Maxalding, any student of physical culture would do well to check this out, even if only for historical interest - it explains to me certain morphological differences in comic book art between the "orthodox", or traditional approach to depicting strength, and how it contradicts the sort of morphology that modern body building methods result in.
I've tried it, and I've found it can be a fairly effective way to warm up muscles at least in a low/no impact way.
http://www.maxalding.co.uk/
If the link doesn't come up, just google "maxalding".
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