The Truth of Exercise

This blog corrresponds to and explains the blog entry  “The Delusion of Exercise”.

“I can move my body more”

All that stretching, pulling, pushing and pumping has “ripped” the fibres of your muscles. Muscles which were firmly cemented, onto your misaligned bones. The cemented parts have not yielded. In fact, it is only healthy, muscle fibres that have been ripped. Your already taught and tightened muscles, the ones that were, by design, restricting your movements; they are the ones, which you have ripped. This is why, you can move your body more.

“I can move my body more; well all except for; this arm, this leg, knee or shoulder; still gives me problems and pain.”

Stretching, pulling, pushing on a misaligned muscle, does not and will not, bring it back into alignment. Pulling on a seized muscle, does not and will not, loosen it. If your bones are already being pulled out of alignment by your cemented and taught muscles; then, the more you insist upon moving; ie. with exercise, then the more internal ripping, muscle contraction and bone misalignment will take place. This is why, you have problems and pain.

“I’ve lost lots of weight”

With exercise, using the combined “enforced” pumping of your heart with the “enforced” movements of your muscles; your circulation of blood flow increases enough, to push away some of the “body cell debris” (dead cells and cell waste) and your body bulk reduces. This is why, you lose lots of weight.

“I’ve lost lots of weight; well all except for; this bit here. Somehow the “fat” in this area will not move away.”

With exercise, using the combined “enforced” pumping of your heart with the “enforced” movements of your muscles; the circulation of blood flow increases enough, to push away some of the “body cell debris”.

 

However, as our blood circulation is equally dependent upon our body’s vascular health, (the health of our veins which are embedded within our muscles;) then if a muscle is seized and does not pump its veins; consequently, the “body cell debris” above it, does not move away and so, you are left with irregular bands of fat. This is why, somehow the “fat” in this area will not move away.

“My skin looks good”

With exercise, using the combined “enforced” pumping of your heart with the “enforced” movements of your muscles, your blood flow increases enough, to push blood through to some previously, blocked parts and feed your skin. With nutrients from the fresh blood flow, your skin plumps out. This is why, your skin looks good.

“My skin looks good, ..but with a “waxy” look.”

Healthy skin, has a sheen not shine with a texture like linen not silk.

However, as our blood circulation is equally dependent upon our body’s vascular health, (the health of our veins which are embedded within our muscles;) then if a muscle is seized and does not pump its veins; then consequently, the “body cell debris” within the skin above, does not wash away. Therefore, your skin is being fed by the heart but it is not being fully cleaned by the veins. This is why, your skin looks good, ..but with a “waxy” look”.

“My skin looks good; .well all except for; some places that remain droopy, crapey or dry; while other bits are still wrinkling, on my arms and thighs.”

With exercise, using the combined “enforced” pumping of your heart with the “enforced” movements of your muscles, your blood flow increases enough, to push blood through to some of your previously, blocked parts and feed your skin. With nutrients from the fresh blood flow, your skin plumps out.

 

However, as our blood circulation is equally dependent upon our body’s vascular health, (the health of our veins which are embedded within our muscles;) then if a muscle is seized and does not pump, then the skin above that muscle will not be fed. It remains prune-like and wrinkly. The skin is not being renewed nor the “body cell debris” being washed away. This is why, some places remain droopy, crapey or dry; while other bits are still wrinkling, on your arms and thighs.

You look good; well all except for; you are still “lop-sided”. Your head is not straight, one side of your neck is thicker than the other, one shoulder is still higher than the other, one side of your waist is thicker than the other.

Stretching, pulling, pushing on a misaligned muscle, does not and will not, bring it back into alignment. Pulling on a seized muscle, does not and will not, loosen it. If your bones are already being pulled out of alignment by your cemented and taught muscles; then, the more you insist upon moving; ie. with exercise; then the more muscle contraction and bone misalignment will take place.

 

The tighter and more seized your muscles become the more they contract and shorten; pulling bones out of alignment and distorting your posture. Also, when a muscle is seized, then “body cell debris” accumulates around it, thickening the area. This is why, you are still “lop-sided”. Your head is not straight, one side of your neck is thicker than the other, one shoulder is still higher than the other, one side of your waist is thicker than the other.

“I have more energy, well all except for; if I don’t exercise regularly, then actually, I feel dreadful. I feel achy, listless and fatigued.”

With exercise using the combined “enforced” pumping of your heart with the “enforced” movements of your muscles, the “power” of blood flow increases and “unnaturally”, blood is “forced” into areas where normally it does not flow. Your body responds well and you have more energy.

 

However, this pace of blood flow, is not naturally achieved and so a few days later when your supply no longer has the power to push through; many of the previously fed areas are now stranded without a regular flow. Your body responds badly to the decreased blood supply; your muscles once engorged with blood from the enforced supply, are now starving and you feel dreadful. This is why, you feel achy, listless and fatigued.

Even your muscles have started to grow;

New blood means new growth. With exercise, using the combined “enforced” pumping of your heart with the “enforced” movements of your muscles, your blood flow increases enough, to push blood through to some of your previously, blocked parts and feed your muscles. With nutrients from the fresh blood flow, your muscles plump out. This is why, your muscles have started to grow.

Even your muscles have started to grow; well all except for; the muscles in this arm, this leg. Somehow there, the bulk won’t grow.

New blood means new growth.

 

However, as our arteries which carry our fresh blood, are themselves embedded within our muscles’ fibres then, if a muscle is seized it will grip around its embedded arteries and restrict their blood flow. All muscles next in line, to receive blood, will not be fed. Without nourishment, a muscle will not grow, it remains withered. This is why, somehow there, the bulk won’t grow.

Taught muscles lines with a permanent contour;

A muscle’s health deteriorates over time; from soft, springy and stretchy to tough, solid and static. The texture of a muscle is like elastic, if over stretched it loses the soft, springy texture becoming taught, inflexible and in effect, solid.

 

If the contours of a muscle are on permanent show and bulging through the skin, then that muscle is seized.

 

A healthy muscle, when at rest, has a shapely, non-bulging, smooth-surfaced contour. Only when the muscle makes a movement, does it visibly adjust, displaying the sharp lines of the taught, muscle fibres.

 

An unhealthy, seized muscle varies little in contour and texture, whether in action or not. At rest, “unhealthy muscles” sustain a “contracted and bulging” appearance. They are distorted in shape. This is why, you have taught muscles lines with a permanent contour.

Taught muscles lines; ..well all except for; these large veins which are bulging through, while other veins pattern your skin with the colour blue.

When a muscle seizes fully, then in effect, it solidifies and the veins, which are normally embedded within the muscle’s springy fibres; do not have any space to exist and so, “they rise to the muscle’s surface”. They become visible lines of blue beneath the skin. An unhealthy, solid muscle forces its veins to the muscle’s surface where they push up and protrude out, as varicose veins, into the skin. This is why, large veins are bulging through, while other veins pattern your skin with the colour blue.

“Muscle turns to fat”, is claimed as an excuse, by many of the once fit, muscle bulging, body building and contact sport, young men; who are all now, the fattest, middle-aged ones.

When a muscle is damaged, then for its own self-protection, it will contract, pull upon its bones, fray along the join lines and with our body’s “mechanism for self-preservation” it will, for safety, become glued, cemented and padded, onto its bones. The body bulks up.

Both contact sports and body building activities, create excessive damage to the body’s muscles; by injuries from impacts causing multiple muscle contractions or by injuries from repetitive, weight bearing actions causing strain and internal ripping which also lead to multiple, muscle contractions. Either way, these activities create, a more than “normal” wear and tear upon the body. Consequently, a more than “normal” amount of muscles are cemented and padded; and muscles which are cemented, will ultimately seize. They become solid, static, inactive.

Once the playing and training stops and with the passing of years, those cemented and seized muscles inevitably, restrict the body’s blood flow. Firstly, the cement and padding of the damaged muscles, in itself, blocks and reduces blood flow; but also, as our blood circulation is half dependent, upon blood being pumped back to our heart, through our veins, by the muscles; then muscles which are seized and static are unable to pump the veins and therefore, our blood circulation, slows down more.

A reduced blood flow means reduced body cleaning, so “body cell debris” is not being washed away, leaving the “padding” to accumulate and grow. The “debris” collects and for protection, “pads” around the seized muscles. Muscles which, because they are seized, cannot pump their blood flow and by design, cannot remove the “protective padding” and so the “debris” continues to accumulate and grow. The body blocks up and bulks up, excessively.

Muscle hasn’t turned to fat. Seized muscles become “draped” with “fat!”, or rather “draped” with “body cell debris”. The damaged muscles are “padded” up, to provide a protective “cushioning”, in case of another injury or blow. A drastically reduced circulation means that, by design, the padding stays there. This is why, the once fit, young men are now, the fattest middle-aged ones.

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The ideas and theory expressed on this blog are the original concept of the author, Linda Dodds.

All rights reserved. Copyright © Linda Dodds 2008

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