FOOTBALLERS and HEART ATTACKS – HERE’S WHY.

Everyday, either during or just after exercise, “fit” people suffer heart attacks and many of them die; much to the shock and bewilderment of family, friends and indeed, the whole of the western medical profession.

Why are so many “young” footballers suffering heart attacks?  After all, they are the “fittest” people in the world, aren’t they?

Professional footballers spend hours exercising; pushing, pulling and pumping on their clearly visible; “solid and bulging” muscles.

It is currently believed that “exercise is good for us” and that “fitness” gained through “exercise” improves our body’s “cardio-vascular” system; but it doesn’t.

Well, it improves the “cardio” part, the heart but unless our body’s muscles are in “perfect alignment” when we begin the regime; then the “vascular” health, the health of our veins; “veins which are embedded deep within our muscles” diminishes and considerably.

Our heart is only “one half” of our body’s blood circulatory system. The other half; “the returning of the blood to the heart”, the “venous pump” is controlled by all of our body’s other muscles. Fresh blood is pumped out from our heart into the body, via the arteries but it returns to the heart, pumped by our muscles, via the veins.

Our veins are safely encased within our muscles’ flexible, springy fibres and with each movement, with each expansion and contraction, our muscles squeeze and release the veins; and thus, “pump our blood back to the heart”. Therefore the health of our “venous pump”, the returning of our blood back to the heart is dependent upon the health and flexibility of our “body muscles”.

Seized Muscles CANNOT Squeeze Our Veins, CANNOT Return Blood to the Heart

The texture of a muscle is like elastic, if over stretched it loses the soft, springy texture becoming taught, inflexible and in effect, solid (just like Madonna’s). Pulling on an over-stretched or injured muscle does not and will not repair it but rather causes it to “seize” solid and become static; creating stress and misalignment to all its surrounding muscles.

* Pulling 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.

The more we “exercise”; the more we pull, push or pump on over-stretched, injured, seized and misaligned muscles then the more “seized muscles” we create.

Our blood vessels, both the “arteries” and the “veins” exist within our muscles. They are all embedded safely and snugly within our muscle’s springy fibres.

When a “muscle seizes” then in effect, it “solidifies” and our veins which are normally encased within the muscle’s fibres do not have any space to exist and so, our “veins rise to the muscle’s surface”. They become visible, protruding beneath our skin forming those “blue varicose veins”.

Our Veins and Arteries Suffer when a Muscle Seizes

• A seized muscle means “a constricted artery” and reduced blood flow.
• A seized muscle means “a squashed vein” and reducedblood flow.
• A seized muscle with its veins on the outside is “incapable” of adequately squeezing and releasing our veins.
• A seized muscle is “incapable” of performing its part in the “venous pump”.
• A seized muscle is “incapable” of returning our blood to the heart.

Our heart is the “only organ” in our body that in order to function and pump correctly, “depends upon its blood” to be supplied “from our veins”.

Our body transports just 8 pints, 4.5 litres of blood around some 60,000 miles that’s 100,000 kilometres of blood vessels.

It is no good turning up the pump of the heart (the cardio), “forcing” blood out into the body if the “pump of the returning blood”, the “venous pump” cannot keep up “the same pace”.

Seized and seizing muscles squash and “constrict our arteries”, hindering and “slowing our blood flow” while at the same time as they tighten, they are incapable of squeezing our veins enough, to return blood back to the heart “in time” for it to be pumped out again.

It is the “lack of returning blood” that causes the heart to fail.

The heart muscle is “starved of blood”, it goes into “spasm” and “cramps”; creating the intense chest pain as we suffer a “heart attack”.

The problem is not the heart muscle (the cardio) but rather, the bad condition of our body muscles, those housing the veins (the vascular).  A bad condition “caused by” the self-same exercise regime adopted to make us “fit”.

Learn much more about your body at www.youarenotfat.com

The ideas expressed in this blog are the original concept of Linda Dodds.

All rights reserved. Copyright © Linda Dodds 2008.

Madonna’s Veins and Muscles Mean High Risk of Heart Attack

Everyday, “fit” people suffer heart attacks and many of them die; much to the shock and bewilderment of family, friends and indeed, the whole of the western medical profession.

Why are so many “young” footballers suffering heart attacks?  After all, they are the “fittest” people in the world, aren’t they?

Like Madonna, they spend hours exercising; pushing, pulling and pumping on their clearly visible; “veined, solid and bulging” muscles.

It is currently believed that “exercise is good for us” and that “fitness” gained through “exercise” improves our body’s “cardio-vascular” system; but it doesn’t.

Well, it improves the “cardio” part, the heart but unless our body’s muscles are in “perfect alignment” when we begin the regime; then the “vascular” health, the health of our veins; “veins which are embedded deep within our muscles” diminishes and considerably.

Our heart is only “one half” of our body’s blood circulatory system. The other half; “the returning of the blood to the heart”, the “venous pump” is controlled by all of our body’s other muscles. Fresh blood is pumped out from our heart into the body, via the arteries but it returns to the heart, pumped by our muscles, via the veins.

Our veins are safely encased within our muscles’ flexible, springy fibres and with each movement, with each expansion and contraction, our muscles squeeze and release the veins; and thus, “pump our blood back to the heart”. Therefore the health of our “venous pump”, the returning of our blood back to the heart is dependent upon the health and flexibility of our “body muscles”.

Seized Muscles CANNOT Squeeze Our Veins, CANNOT Return Blood to the Heart

The texture of a muscle is like elastic, if over stretched it loses the soft, springy texture becoming taught, inflexible and in effect, solid (just like Madonna’s). Pulling on an over-stretched or injured muscle does not and will not repair it but rather causes it to “seize” solid and become static; creating stress and misalignment to all its surrounding muscles.

• Pulling 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.

The more we “exercise”; the more we pull, push or pump on over-stretched, injured, seized and misaligned muscles then the more “seized muscles” we create.

Our blood vessels, both the “arteries” and the “veins” exist within our muscles. They are all embedded safely and snugly within our muscle’s springy fibres.

When a “muscle seizes” then in effect, it “solidifies” and our veins which are normally encased within the muscle’s fibres do not have any space to exist and so, our “veins rise to the muscle’s surface”. They become visible, protruding beneath our skin forming those “blue varicose veins”.

Our Veins and Arteries Suffer when a Muscle Seizes

• A seized muscle means “a constricted artery” and reduced blood flow.
• A seized muscle means “a squashed out vein”.
• A seized muscle with its veins on the outside is “incapable” of adequately squeezing and releasing our veins.
• A seized muscle is “incapable” of performing its part in the “venous pump”.
• A seized muscle is “incapable” of returning our blood to the heart.

Our heart is the “only organ” in our body that in order to function and pump correctly, “depends upon its blood” to be supplied “from our veins”.

Our body transports just 8 pints, 4.5 litres of blood around some 60,000 miles that’s 100,000 kilometres of blood vessels.

It is no good turning up the pump of the heart (the cardio), “forcing” blood out into the body if the “pump of the returning blood”, the “venous pump” cannot keep up “the same pace”.

Seized and seizing muscles squash and “constrict our arteries”, hindering and “slowing our blood flow” while at the same time, they are incapable of squeezing our veins enough, to return blood back to the heart “in time” for it to be pumped out again.

It is the “lack of returning blood” that causes the heart to fail.

The heart muscle is “starved of blood”, it goes into “spasm” and “cramps”; creating the intense chest pain as we suffer a “heart attack”.

The problem is not the heart muscle (the cardio) but rather, the bad condition of our body muscles, those housing the veins (the vascular).  A bad condition “caused by” the self-same exercise regime adopted to make us “fit”.

Exercise is Bad for Your Body

Fitness is not Health

P.S. If anyone knows Madonna personally, then please ask her to get in touch because I absolutely guarantee that without diet and exercise, I can bring her body back to good health with the muscle tone and skin texture, like that of a 30 year old (almost like a virgin!).

Learn much more about your body at www.youarenotfat.com

The ideas expressed in this blog are the original concept of Linda Dodds.

All rights reserved. Copyright © Linda Dodds 2008.

Madonna’s Varicose Veined, “Seized Solid” Muscles are Proof that Exercise is BAD for You

This recent photo of Madonna has brought into question the validity of exercise.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/madonna/5919513/Madonnas-muscular-arms-prompt-criticism-she-has-been-exercising-too-much.html

Exercise is BAD for your body.

Our blood vessels, both the “arteries” and the “veins” exist within our muscles. They are all embedded safely and snugly, within our muscle’s springy fibres.

When a muscle is damaged through injury or strain then for self-protection, it “contracts and tightens”, it “seizes”. When a “muscle seizes” then in effect, it “solidifies” and our veins which are normally encased within the muscle’s fibres, do not have any space to exist and so, our “veins rise to the muscle’s surface”. They become visible, protruding beneath our skin forming those “blue varicose veins”.

“Varicose veins” sit above and are caused by “seized muscles”.

Our Veins and Arteries Suffer when a Muscle Seizes

Madonna as the article explains, has exercised regularly for years and indeed currently, exercises for 12 hours every week; surely if exercise were good for us then she should have the best female body in the world.

Instead, Madonna’s body is a perfect example of

“seized solid” muscles; inflexible, UNHEALTHY muscles.

Fitness is NOT an indicator of Good Health.

See the post: Fitness CAUSES Heart Attacks

Varicose veins are a sign of VERY POOR blood circulation.

Varicose veins are a sign of VERY BAD cardio-vascular health.

Fresh blood is pumped out from the heart into our body via the arteries and it returns to the heart, via the veins.  The pump of the heart, “the cardio” is only “one half” of the blood circulatory system; “the cardiovascular system”.  The other half, medically termed the “venous pump”, is responsible for “returning blood” back to the heart, via the veins; “the vascular” and it is an action performed by; all of our “other muscles”.

Our “body muscles” power the “venous pump”.

Our “body muscles” are responsible for returning blood back to the heart.

Seized Muscles CANNOT Squeeze Our Veins, CANNOT Return Blood to the Heart

Seized muscles with their veins on the outside, CANNOT squeeze our veins fully, they CANNOT return blood to the heart.

Madonna is now in DANGER of suffering a heart attack, just like all those other, so called “fit” people and footballers who have suffered a heart spasm either during or just after exercise.

When blood cannot return to the heart in time to pump it back out again; then the heart muscle is starved of blood causing it to go into “spasm”, into “cramp”, into a heart attack.

P.S. If anyone knows Madonna personally, then please ask her to get in touch because I absolutely guarantee that without diet and exercise, I can bring her body back to good health with the muscle tone and skin texture, like that of a 30 year old (almost like a virgin!).

Learn much more about your body at www.youarenotfat.com

The ideas expressed in this blog are the original concept of Linda Dodds.

All rights reserved. Copyright © Linda Dodds 2008.

The Human Body – What is it?

The Human Body

No muscles, no body.

Our Nervous System

No muscles, no movement. No muscles, no nerves.

Our Blood Vessels

No muscles, no blood vessels.

Our Blood Circulatory System

The heart is a muscle.

Fresh blood is pumped out from the heart into our body via the arteries and it returns to the heart, via the veins.  The pump of the heart, “the cardio” is only “one half” of the blood circulatory system; “the cardiovascular system”.  The other half, medically termed the “venous pump”, is responsible for “returning blood” back to the heart, via the veins; “the vascular” and it is an action performed by; all of our “other muscles”.

Our “body muscles” power the “venous pump”.

Our “body muscles” are responsible for returning blood back to the heart.

No muscles, no circulation.

Conventional Western Medicine and the Human Body

Conventional western medicine totally ignores the idea that;

“the human body is a single entity which functions, as a whole”.

Instead, the body has been territorially dissected and privatized.  Individual body parts have been sectioned off, specialized in and viewed in total isolation by consultant doctors.  A “land grab” on the body.

In conventional western medicine the more than “six hundred, multi-stranded, “lever and pulley” muscles” of our body are “totally discounted” under the group naming of; “soft tissue”.

Our muscles are viewed as an unimportant “body filler”.

A “filler without significance” which may be “sliced through” and “severed”, with impunity. Once a muscle has been “severed” and then “repaired”.  It is “physically shorter”.

It is “physically incapable” of ever, “functioning fully” again.

In 2007 the BBC reported the findings of a US medical study which after analyzing the findings of 23 other medical studies, concluded;

“Surgery doesn’t work”.

“5 to 7 years after pain-relief surgery, all patients reported being in

“worse pain” than before the procedure.”

Rarely will a diagnosis conclude that; “the pain could be resultant from damage to one of our hundreds of muscles; as they contract, seize and pull upon their bones, thus causing “internal tearing” and our body’s “misalignment” with direct “blood flow restrictions” and “nerve constrictions”.

How could the pain possibly be caused by, something which

“does not exist”?

We have machines to look at our; blood, brains, bones, eyes, ears, throats, hearts, arteries, veins, nerves, lungs, livers, kidneys, unborn children, stomachs, bowels and even our anuses.  Is there a machine that inspects the muscles?

Indeed most machines seem to qualify their very usefulness, by their ability to view straight through the “soft tissue”.  As if our 650 muscles are invisible.  As if, they are irrelevant.  As if, they do not exist.

There are Dermatologists (skin), Haematologists (blood), Cardiologists (heart), Neurologists (nerves), Osteopaths (bones), Psychiatrists (brain-drugs), Neurosurgeons (brain-surgery), Dentists (teeth), Ophthalmologists (eyes), Gynaecologists (female reproduction), Obstetricians (pregnancy), Paediatricians (children), Oncologists (cancer) and then there are Pathologists; we even have a doctor for when we are dead!

Here’s a test?

What is the name of the consultant doctor specializing with the muscles?

By the way, Physiotherapists are not doctors.

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In conventional, western medicine the more than

“six hundred, multi-stranded, “lever and pulley” muscles” of our body;

are “totally discounted”, under the group naming of; “soft tissue”.

Our muscles are viewed as an unimportant “body filler”.

A “filler without significance” which may be

“sliced through” and “severed”, with impunity.

Wrinkles, Loose Skin, Dead Skin, Deep Lines and Cellulite. All Caused by Seized Muscles.

Blood is our skin’s moisturizer.

New blood feeds our skin from within, keeping it fresh, supple and plump.

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

Blood is pumped into the body by our heart but our blood circulation is equally dependent upon our body’s “vascular health”, the health of our veins which are all embedded within our muscles. Therefore our muscles pump the blood back. If a muscle is seized and does not pump its veins; then consequently, our blood flow is slowed down, reduced.

Healthy skin sheds up to half a million cells every hour.  Normally, our skin is totally replaced from the inside out over a 3 week time period but, as we go through life and our body becomes damaged within and as more of our muscles seize, then we develop a slower and therefore reduced blood flow which directly affects the condition of our skin.

Our “skin renewal” process underneath is slowed down and therefore on the surface, dead cells accumulate because our surface skin takes longer to shed.  The deterioration shows, as the skin which now has to remain longer than its expected time span; “dries out”, “flakes” and “takes longer to heal”.

This extended time period, also leaves our skin susceptible to “external attacks” from “micro-organisms”.  “Bacterial”, “fungal” and “parasitical” infections can lead to the “irritating inflammations” of “dermatitis”.

The condition of our skin corresponds directly to the condition of those muscles which lie beneath.  A muscle changing from health, into the first stages of deterioration, reflects its status on our skin by the surface texture becoming “jellylike” and “glassy”.

Above seized muscles, where the skin is not being adequately fed, the temperature drops and our skin feels “cool to the touch”.  The healthy sheen turns “dull” and the fresh plumpness disappears leaving the shrivelled “prune type wrinkles”.

“Deep lines” appear directly above the junction of where two or more seized muscles meet.

The suffering skin “loses its elasticity” and it “sags”.  However, the thickness of skin does not change and so the expression “loose skin” when used to describe the bulk, hanging from our upper arms or inner thighs, is misleading.  It is not just skin that is hanging; but skin, laden with “body cell debris” (i.e. dead cells and cell waste) that is being left behind because of our reduced blood flow. “Loose skin” is skin that is sagging under the weight of the internal “body cell debris” that is being left behind, like silt in a stream and the bulk is accumulating between the skin and our muscles.

As the “body cell debris” accumulates, it “pushes out” and strains against the “mesh structure” of our skin, creating the “orange peel” look which we call; “cellulite”.  As the bulk grows larger, it pushes out more and under pressure, parts of our skin’s mesh structure fail and “fatty nodules” burst out, thus completing the picture of; “lumpy, dimply, wrinkly, skin-sagging cellulite”.

Ultimately, when our blood supply is reduced, to just a trickle, then we develop the unsightly “dead skin”.  The dry, hard skin which forms in “painful crusts” at our elbows, on the knees, heels, balls of our feet and under our toes.

Our wrinkles, loose skin, dead skin, deep lines and cellulite are all caused by a reduced blood supply which is caused by our seized muscles.

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The ideas expressed in this blog are the original concept of the author Linda Dodds.

All rights reserved.  Copyright © Linda Dodds 2008.

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“Muffin Top” Waists with “Saddle Bag” Hips and Thighs.

Our “muffin top” waists or “love handles” describe that bulge which appears at our back above the hips and which bulks out our waistline.  This bulge is not fat, it is caused by damage to a small muscle in our back, the “quadratus lumborum” at L4.  And whether this is comforting news or not; given time “everyone in the world” both men and women will suffer this.

Women have “saddlebag hips” and “bulky thighs” not because they are fat but because muscles in their hips are “seized”.

From being children, little boys are more likely to be climbing trees and doing press ups or pull ups; while little girls spend a great deal of their time, perfecting the leg throwing activities of handstands, cartwheels and of course, the splits.

“Muffin Top” Waists with “Saddle Bag” Hips and Thighs.

Damaged Muscles Causing Body Bulges

Women’s “saddlebag hips” and “bulky thighs” are in part due to these “leg throwing” activities when we are young but also when we are older, sex contributes as an activity which causes the muscles of our hips and inner thighs to suffer damage and strain.

When a muscle is under strain then for “self-protection” it contracts, shortens and pulls upon its bones. This “pulling” causes the muscle to “tear or fray” all along the muscle to bone “join line” and as a result but also by design, tiny internal scabs, medically termed “oedemas” are created. These “oedemas” act like a “glue”, to hold the “fraying muscle tissue” onto its bones; but equally, these “oedemas” (our body’s “mechanism self-repair”) create “blockages” that hinder the flow of our blood.

Everyday our body creates millions of body cells to replace those that die. Dead cells and cell waste i.e. our “body cell debris” is normally carried away by our body in the passing blood. However, as our body becomes strewn with thousands of tiny oedemas, then in time, over years our “body cell debris” begins to “snag on” and “build up” around these “blockages”; further damming and slowing our blood supply and therefore “our bulges grow”.

Saddle Bag Hips

The bulge that sits just below the hip bone is created from the straining of a muscle called the “gluteus medius”. This is usually a large bulge and it spreads around to our front, “bulking out” our hips creating the middle bulge of the “saddle bag” look.

The “gluteus medius” like a fan, splays around the arc of our hip bone, the “ilium” pulling and connecting it to the top of our thigh bone, the “femur”. This muscle “frays all around the rim of the hip” and also at the top of the “femur”. “Repairs” are made, “body cell debris” accumulates and we get those “two bulging bands” covered in “cellulite” which create our “heavy hips and thighs”.

“Cellulite” occurs above and only above our “seized muscles”; this is why, our cellulite only appears in certain locations. This is also why, even though we may exercise for many hours over many months, still we have skin that droops and refuses to move.

Women have “saddlebag hips” and “bulky thighs” not because they are fat but because muscles in their hips are “seized”.

So, What’s the Answer?

The first thing you need to know is; “Exercise is BAD for You”

and that includes, “stretching” of any kind, long walks and swimming.

See “Seized Muscles – What Can You Do?”

Learn much more at www.youarenotfat.com

The ideas and theory expressed on this blog are the original concept of the author, Linda Dodds. All rights reserved. Copyright © Linda Dodds 2008

Seized Muscles – What Can You Do?

Seized Muscles

Exercise is BAD for You

If you are reading this then probably, you have some “seized muscles” which are;

• pulling on your bones,
• causing your body to distort,
• restricting your movements,
• causing you pain; and/or tingles, numbness, itching and cramp;
• while creating your varicose veins,
  
• and cellulite

therefore, …you want an answer.

The first thing you need to know is;“Exercise is BAD for You”

and that includes; “stretching” of any kind, long walks and swimming.

Stretching, pulling, pushing and pumping on a “seized muscle” does not release the muscle, it just “rips” more muscles fibres.

This is the truth of exercise and the reason why, you have pain the following day. The notion that “exercise is good for us” is false, it is a “short term” delusion.

• Pulling on an “over-stretched” or indeed, an “injured muscle”, does not and will not, repair it; but rather, causes it to “seize” solid and become static; creating stress and “misalignment” to all its surrounding muscles.

• Pulling 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.

To continue the enforced movement of an “injured” body part, does not create healing but rather, stops it. Continuing to move or “exercise an injury” while ignoring the pain or using “pain killing drugs” to hide the presence of pain; is going “against” our body’s own “natural mechanisms”.

Our body gives us pain, so that “we do not move”.

The objective is; “to avoid more pain, we will keep still”.

The more we “exercise”; the more we pull, push or pump on “over-stretched, injured, seized and misaligned muscles”; then the more “seized muscles”, we create.

We have 206 bones that are held in place, controlled and protected by some 650 muscles; all interacting harmoniously and functioning with “perfect, engineering precision”.

Each time we make a movement, “hundreds of our muscles” are all called into action at once. They are activated in a “set sequence”, all contracting, expanding, pulling and depending upon each other, to achieve the movement’s flow.

We don’t have just one seized muscle, we have many.

So, What’s the Answer?

In a nutshell, life is about blood. New blood means new growth.

There is only one way to repair our “seized muscles” and that is with fresh blood. It is necessary to “return the flow of fresh blood” through the damaged muscles.

New blood means new growth.

• With fresh blood; “cell renewal” takes place and new muscle fibres grow enabling our muscles to “relax, lengthen and re-align” themselves.

• Relaxed and “aligned muscles”, release their “compressing grip” upon our “arteries and veins” thus improving and maintaining the new, healthy blood flow.

There is only one way to “return the flow of fresh blood” and

“redress the underlying muscle damage” and that is with,

the “Muscle Renewal System”.

The Muscle Renewal System is a completely natural, one to one, hands on therapy with guaranteed results.  The treatments are applied to the body using the principles of “my theory” on the human body, some of which I have explained above.

However, as I am the creator of the Muscle Renewal System and at the moment, the only practitioner in the world, then unless you live near me in Spain, you still have a problem.

If you would like to ask about your specific problem or if you require more detailed instructions, then please email me at seizedmuscles@youarenotfat.com

What You Can Do

So in the meantime, your best option to relieve the problem is to go for some massages or if you prefer, you can treat yourself.

But first, you MUST stop all exercising now.

***** Notice: NO liability is accepted for any losses, damage, injury or other consequences as a result of the use of any information offered herein, below. **********

1. Visit a Professional

Go for some massages on the seized up areas and in particular, on “all the surrounding muscles”. This will “circulate blood” through your body “without straining your muscles”.

Type of Massage

Not a deep, “digging in”, sports type massage nor a relaxing “skin rub” but find someone; experienced with a “firm touch” offering an “invigorating” massage based upon the principles of our “muscle structure”. (Swedish Therapeutic)

Number of Treatments

5 one hour sessions over 3 weeks (4/5 days apart); then for

3 weeks, do nothing; just take things very easy and heal.

You may need to repeat the process again for another 6 weeks.

2. Self Treatment

Try treating yourself. 10 minutes per day, 3 times per week and in 3 weeks you will be amazed at the difference and how good you will feel.

• The secret and your objective; is to loosen the seized area enough, for “fresh blood to re-gain access” then “your body will do the rest”. (Imagine a frozen chicken, at first it is solid and static but as it thaws, it becomes soft and moveable.)  Little and often, it is a process.

• You will need to treat all of the muscles surrounding your problem area.

• Hip Problem; treat from your waist at the back, cover all the buttock and down your thigh to your knee.
• Lower Back; treat from your ribs at the back, all across the middle back, over the hips to and including the buttocks.
• Upper Arms; treat from below the elbow up along the underarm. Use your hand to hold around the arm as you continue into the arm pit and as far you can reach, to the shoulder blade behind. Also massage at the front, the whole of your chest area from the centre bone, across the upper breast, to the collar bone and out to the shoulder. Continue along to the arm and massage the front muscles down to the elbow.

• It is a PROCESS. You cannot rush the process.
• Your objective is stimulation.
  
• Your body needs the time of a few days, between each session, to marinade in the new blood. New blood means new growth.
• Massage the area and 3 days later your muscles will be softer.
• After each session the area becomes softer and softer.

Methodology

(i) You will need lots of oil or lots of soap if you are in the bath/shower but do not use a cream or moisturizer. This is important, to avoid skin to skin friction (cooking oil is fine, you can wash it off afterwards).

(ii) Start using the whole of your hand just gliding over the whole area.

(iii) Do not dig in. Do not hurt yourself.

(iv) Establish a rhythm to your movements, (you may wish to massage in time to music).

(v) Massage for 1 to 2 minutes and then stop and wait for 1 to 2 minutes or while waiting, treat another part of your body.

(vi) Start again for 1 to 2 minutes, this time massage using the whole of your hand in small circles about the size of a saucer. Then stop and repeat. .

(vii) After 10 minutes on each area, you are finished.

(viii) However this must be repeated regularly, every 3/4 days for 3 weeks.

(ix) Then stop for 3 weeks and if you need more, then continue.

(x) The more parts of your body that you massage, the better you will feel.

Be realistic, you cannot redress the damage accumulated

over years, in just a few weeks.

Learn much more about your body at www.youarenotfat.com

If you would like to ask about your specific problem or if you require more detailed instructions, then please email me at seizedmuscles@youarenotfat.com

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

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Aches, Pains, Twitches and Restless Legs. All Caused by Seized Muscles.

Do you wake and start the day, “pain free” and fresh but as the day goes by, do you suffer those “aches” and “burning sensations” of headaches, aching shoulders, stiff necks, aching legs and the dreaded backache?

Pain is exhausting and debilitating. When we are in pain; then we notice every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

What is pain?

Well, it is an “attention grabbing message” which travels along our nerves to our brain and it tells us that, “something is wrong within”.

What causes pain?

Pain has just 3 causes, a nerve is either;

(i) diseased or (ii) injured or (iii) it is being squashed.

If we are not diseased and we are not injured but still, we have “painful messages of distress” then “our nerves are being squashed”.

Our nerves which transmit those painful messages, are all embedded within our body’s muscles. We may start the day fresh with relaxed muscles after a night of rest but as we perform our daily tasks, our “muscles tighten”, they contract, “grip around” and constrict our nerves; thus causing at first, “burning sensations” then “aches” and finally “pain”.

We have pain because our “nerves are being squeezed” within and by, our “seizing muscles”.

When seizing muscles “squeeze our nerves” then we ache.

When seized muscles “squash our nerves” then we feel pain.

Twitches and Restless Legs

Muscle “twitches” and the irritating problem of “restless legs” are also symptoms that manifest because our nerves are being squeezed within.

Our nerves transmit messages in the form of electrical impulses, to and from our brain. When seizing muscles intermittently “squeeze” but then quickly “release” our nerves then those electrical impulses which travel along our nerves, become “interrupted”.

Consequently, the messages that control the movements our muscles also become interrupted and we experience “involuntary muscle twitches” that vary from a simple, “one muscle twitch” to the disturbing and irritating problem of “restless legs”. Twitches and restless legs are both symptoms which noticeably effect people at the end of the day.

Our aches, pains, twitches and restless legs are all symptoms of and are caused by, our seizing muscles.

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Cellulite? Cellulite is Not Fat. It is Caused by Seized Muscles.

Cellulite is not fat. Cellulite is not loose skin. Cellulite is “body cell debris”.  

Cellulite is “body cell debris” i.e. dead cells and cell waste; that is accumulating, for our own protection, between our “seized muscles” and our skin.

“Body cell debris” occurs above and only above our “seized muscles”; this is why, our cellulite only appears in certain locations. This is also why, even though we may exercise for hours over months, still we have skin that droops and refuses to move. The amount of cellulite that we each have, is dependent upon, the length of time that our muscles beneath have been seized; the longer time, the more cellulite.

The condition of our skin corresponds directly to the condition of those muscles which lie beneath. Above “seized muscles”, where the skin is not being adequately fed, the temperature drops and our skin feels “cool to the touch”. The “healthy sheen” turns “dull” and the fresh plumpness disappears leaving the “shrivelled, prune type wrinkles”.

A “healthy muscle” has a “springy” texture that enables it, to “cushion” and therefore, “absorb without damage”; the impact shocks from our daily, bumps and knocks.

But a “seized muscle” is taught. It is inflexible and unable to withstand, even a minor bump; because its “protective, springy cushioning” is lost.

Our body therefore, compensates for this. When a muscle has seized and in effect, become “solid” then above it, “body cell debris” accumulates, making up for the muscle’s “loss of flexibility”; by providing a new layer of “impact-absorbing, protective cushioning”.

As more gathers, it pushes out and strains against the “mesh structure” of our skin, creating the “orange peel” look which we call; “cellulite”. More accumulates and in time, under pressure, parts of our skin’s mesh structure fail and “fatty nodules” burst out, thus completing the picture of;

“wrinkly, lumpy, dimply, skin-sagging cellulite”.

The “thickness of our skin” does not change and so the expression “loose skin” when used to describe the bulk, that is hanging from our “upper arms” or “inner thighs”, is misleading.

Cellulite is not just skin that is hanging; but skin, “laden with” and “sagging under” the weight of “body cell debris”.

Cellulite accumulates above and is caused by “seized muscles”.

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Varicose Veins, Thread Veins, Swollen Legs. All Caused by Seized Muscles.

Our blood vessels, both the “arteries” and the “veins” exist within our muscles. They are all embedded, safely and snugly, within our muscle’s springy fibres.

When a muscle is damaged, through injury or strain then for self-protection it “contracts and tightens”, it “seizes”. When a “muscle seizes” fully then in effect, it “solidifies” and our “veins” which are normally encased within the muscle’s fibres; do not have any space to exist and so, our “veins rise to the muscle’s surface”. They become visible, protruding beneath our skin forming those “blue varicose veins”. “Varicose veins” sit above and are caused by “seized muscles”.

Our Veins and Arteries Suffer when a Muscle Seizes

A “vein” is an inanimate tube encased within our muscle’s fibres. Contained within the tube and placed apart at regular intervals, are “valves”. When a “muscle contracts” it squashes flat the tube of the vein and thus, blood is forced to move along into a different section of the tube, the vein. This mechanism is medically termed, the “venous pump”.  Our muscles “pump” our blood back to the heart through the vascular system.

Our Muscles Pump Our Blood Back to the Heart Through the Vascular System

A “seized muscle” with its veins on the surface is incapable of squeezing flat, emptying and thus, “cleaning” our veins adequately. Consequently, blood pools into and “over flows” our “vein’s holding valves”. The excess “blood seeps out” into our body and “penetrates our skin” creating those visible, “red thread veins”. “Thread veins” sit above and are caused by “seized muscles”.

“Swollen legs, ankles and feet” are a symptom of a “main vein” being severely constricted. When muscles in “our hips seize” then our “veins become squashed” between them and in effect, the “vein which is almost flattened” becomes “blocked”.

When a “main vein” in our legs is “constricted” then even though, our heart may pump blood into our legs, if our “veins” are not able to “return it back out” again, at the same pace then our legs fill up, becoming “engorged”. We may start the day with normal sized feet and legs but as our muscles tighten, they “squash our veins” and slow down the pace of the “exiting blood”. By the end of the day, our lower legs are “full of blood; red and bloated”.

“Swollen legs, ankles and feet” are a symptom of a squashed “vein” which is caused by “seized muscles”.

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Cramp, Numbness, Tingles and Itching. All Caused by Seized Muscles.

What is Cramp? It is an “attention grabbing message” SCREAMING that “one of our muscles is starving within”.

Cramp, numbness, tingles and itching are all signs of an interrupted blood supply.   A constricted artery.

All of our blood vessels, both arteries and veins, exist safely embedded within our muscles’ springy fibres.  When a muscle is damaged, through injury or strain then for self-protection it contracts and tightens, it seizes. “Seized muscles” compress and constrict our arteries within and inevitably, the supply our fresh blood slows down.

Our Veins and Arteries Suffer when a Muscle Seizes

When an artery is being squashed then our blood flow is drastically reduced and consequently, if we sit or lie on a seized body part; then after just a short time, our extra body weight “squashes the artery”. When blood flow is drastically reduced then we experience “numbness” in our arms, hands, legs and feet as they, lacking in blood, “go to sleep”.

Indeed, when we go to sleep and rest upon an already, seized-up, body part, such as the arm or hip; the extra weight of our body squashes the blood supply and we wake up in the night, with totally numb “dead arms” and “dead legs”.

The pressure on the artery releases when we make a movement. The blood comes flooding back and we get the “tingling” of “pins and needles” as the area refills with blood.

When our blood stoppage is intermittent, the “numbness” may pass unnoticed but we do notice; the constant irritation of the “tingling” as our blood vessels are emptying and refilling.

“Intense itching” occurs when our blood supply has been blocked for a prolonged period of time and then it releases. We experience this “intense itching” as our tiny blood capillaries that have been “empty” for a prolonged time, refill with blood.

We also experience this “itching” after an injury and we interpret it, as an “indication of healing”. For example, on the skin; just before a scab on our skin grows out, when the new growth beneath is ready to function again then the area fills with fresh blood, causing “intense itching”. By the time the scab releases its hold, the flesh beneath is; healed, fed, full of blood and ready to go.

“Cramp” is the next symptom we encounter when our arteries are constricted. When a “seized muscle” completely squashes an artery and “stops the blood supply” then the following muscle, the “next one in sequence” for the blood, is “starved of blood”. It goes into “spasm”, it “cramps”.

Within seconds, the ensuing pain is so intense and so powerful, that “we are forced” to move. Involuntarily, we jump around. Nothing, that we might be doing, from sitting down to running a race, is more important to our body than for “blood to return to that starving muscle” as quickly as possible.

The muscle in “cramp” is not the problem but the one before it, the “seized muscle” that is gripping the artery and “stopping the blood supply”.

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Why Women Have Saggy Upper Arms

Women have “saggy upper arms” not because they are fat but because the “triceps brachii”, the muscle which runs along the under part of the bone in the upper arm, is “seized”.

“Cellulite” occurs above and only above our “seized muscles”. This is why, our cellulite only appears in certain locations. This is also why, even though we may exercise for many hours over many months, still we have loose skin that droops, wrinkles and refuses to move.

The belief that “exercise is good for us” is false.

It is a “short term delusion” that creates “long term damage ”.

For treatment advice see “Seized Muscles – What Can You Do?“

Women tend to do most of their lifting with the arms out to the side; for example, carrying brief cases and shopping bags or holding a child and hence, women develop the “saggy upper arms”.

Muscle Damage Causes Our Upper Arms to Sag

This activity damages in particular 3 major muscles;
1. the “triceps brachii”,
2. the “latissimus dorsi”,
3. the “teres major”.

When a muscle is under strain then for “self-protection” it contracts, shortens and pulls upon its bones. This “pulling” causes the muscle to “tear or fray” all along the muscle to bone “join line” and as a result but also by design, tiny internal scabs medically termed “oedemas” are created.

These oedemas act like a “glue” to hold the “fraying muscle tissue” onto its bones but equally, these “oedemas” (our body’s “mechanism for self-repair”) create “blockages” that hinder the flow of our blood.

Everyday our body creates millions of body cells to replace those that die. Dead cells and cell waste i.e. our “body cell debris” is normally carried away by our body in the passing blood flow.

However, as our body becomes strewn with thousands of tiny oedemas then in time, over years our “body cell debris” begins to “snag on” and “build up” around these “blockages”; further damming and slowing our blood supply and therefore “our bulges grow”.

Exercise only tears more muscle fibres leading to more "repairs" and more "padding".

Top Stomach Roll

The “latissimus dorsi” is a large muscle in our back that connects our lower back and hips to our arms. It covers both sides of our middle back from our hips and is joined to our spine just below our shoulder blades. It is from damage at this “joining point” below the shoulder blades that our first “stomach band” grows. The accumulating “body cell debris” grows and droops around our body to form the “top stomach roll” that sits just below the breast.

Saggy Upper Arms

1. The “triceps brachii” attaches from our shoulder bone, the “scapula” to the back of the humerus bone, the bone in our upper arm. This muscle then connects along the whole length of that bone until it crosses over the elbow and attaches onto one of the bones below in the lower arm.
2. The “latissimus dorsi” also attaches to the back of the humerus bone.
3. The “teres major” connects our shoulder bone, the “scapula” to our arm and it also joins in the upper arm on to the back of the humerus bone.

Once the “triceps brachii” muscle has seized and the “repairs” for the 3 fraying, “muscle to bone” connections are in place; then our “protective padding” of “body cell debris” just grows and grows. Until soon, the weight of this bulk is too much for our skin to hold and “our upper arm sags”.

Cellulite

The thickness of skin does not change and so the expression “loose skin” when used to describe the bulk that is hanging from our upper arms or inner thighs, is misleading. It is not just skin that is hanging; but skin, laden with “body cell debris”. It is sagging under the weight of the internal “body cell debris” that is accumulating between the skin and our muscles.

As the body bulges grow, they “push out” and strain against the “mesh structure” of our skin, creating the “orange peel” look which we call; “cellulite”. As the bulges grow larger, they push out more. Under pressure, parts of the skin’s mesh structure fail and “fatty nodules” burst out thus completing the picture of;

“lumpy, dimply, wrinkly, skin-sagging cellulite”.

The amount of cellulite that we each have, is solely dependent upon the length of time that the muscles beneath have been seized; the longer time, the more cellulite.

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Women have “saggy upper arms” not because they are fat but because the muscles in their upper arms are damaged and they have “seized”.

So, What’s the Answer?

The first thing you need to know is; “Exercise is BAD for You”
and that includes “stretching” of any kind, long walks and swimming.

For treatment advice see “Seized Muscles – What Can You Do?“

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Once the “triceps brachii” muscle has seized and the “repairs” for the 3 fraying, “muscle to bone” connections are in place; then our “protective padding” of “body cell debris” just grows and grows. Until soon, the weight of this bulk is too much for our skin to hold and “our upper arm sags”.

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.

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Why Men Have Breasts and “Beer” Bellies

Why Men Have Breasts and “Beer” Bellies.

“Men’s breasts” are caused by lifting.

From being children, little boys are more likely; to be climbing trees and be doing press ups or pull ups; while little girls, spend a great deal of time, perfecting the leg throwing activities of handstands, cartwheels and of course, the splits.

Using our arms to lift (and push or pull) a weight from the front; damages a muscle in the chest called, the “pectoralis minor” and one under the arms, called the “serratus anterior”.   The “pectoralis minor” sits beneath the “pectoralis major”, connecting four of our ribs to the top of our arm. The “serratus anterior” hugs around our ribs from the back and connects onto them at the front, in the same location as, but underneath, the “pectoralis minor“.

Here is a Diagram of the Chest

 Both of these damaged muscles tear or fray along the join lines of their connections, with the ribs. Our body creates internal scabs, called “oedemas” which act like a glue, to hold together the fraying muscle tissue. And just as a scab on the outside of our body, hardens to protect the flesh beneath; so too, the “oedemas” harden.

But these “oedemas”, our body’s “repair” mechanism, now hinder and slow our blood flow causing dead cells and cell waste; “body cell debris” to snag on and build up around them; and in effect, our body builds up a protective padding of the “body cell debris”. More accumulates and soon those bulges, that are beneath “men’s breasts, grow”.

When men are young, the more magnificent and taught are their “pecs”; then when they are older, the larger will be, their breasts.

Men’s “Beer” Bellies

As adults, men in general, tend to lift more heavy objects than do women and often, they lift using the muscles of their middle back, as the point of leverage.

Lifting from the middle back, damages a set of muscles called the “serratus posteria”, a group of four that connect our lower ribs to our spine. When these muscles are damaged, our “waist thickens” and we develop a thick band across our middle back. The band droops from our spine, hanging at each side and it grows to the front. Once there, our “stomach muscles” which normally pull upon the muscles of our back, as a counterbalance; have in effect, lost their support. Subsequently, our stomach muscles seize, lose strength and let go of their “load” (our vital organs) and our tummy falls out. We develop a “barrel stomach”. Many builders mistakenly assume, that their “barrel” shape, is due to their copious consumption of beer, but in reality; it is a “lifting belly” not a “beer belly”.

Men with “barrel” stomachs and “breasts” are not fat, they are damaged.

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The ideas expressed in this blog are the original concept of Linda Dodds.

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The Delusion of Exercise

So you’ve stretched, pushed, pulled, pumped and pounded on your muscles. For hours, over months and months you have sweated and gasped your way through pain and palpitations and probably at times, you almost collapsed; but now, you feel the benefit.

“Look” you say, “I’m feeling good. I can move my body more; well all except for; this arm, this leg, knee or shoulder; it still gives me problems and pain. But look, I’ve lost lots of weight; well all except for; this bit here, (be it; your stomach, hips, waist, underarms or chin). Somehow there, the “fat” will not move away.”

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

And now you say, “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. Now, I “have to exercise” just to feel normal, because if I don’t, then I just know, that I’ll seize up.”

You look good, even other people say so; 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 still thicker than the other.

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. But the rest are growing and beginning to show. Taught muscles lines with a permanent contour; well all except for; these large veins which are bulging through, while other veins pattern your skin with the colour blue.

So, my question to you would be, “Are you really going to do this amount of exercise, every week of every year for the rest of your life?”

Because you already know, as soon as the exercise regime stops; then your weight will pile back on, only more; and within 12 months your aches, pains, cramps and numbness will all be back again, only more. Thousands of “ex-fit” and now, “overweight and pain ridden” athletes, body builders, sports players, entertainers, soldiers, policemen, keep fit experts and ordinary people, can all attest to this.

“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. No it doesn’t. Muscle does not turn to fat, anymore than bone turns to liver or brain turns to kidney.

So, you have made all that effort, for what?  The long term benefit is zero.

In fact, the long term benefit is not zero but negative.

Because, all this “unnatural” exercise has created “unnatural”, internal damage.

Damage that takes 5 years, to manifest and reveal itself to you.

Long after your gym instructor or keep-fit expert has left your life. So long after, that you will remember the good, old days of “fitness” and not even associate your past, exercise regime with your now, more than “natural and normal”, internal, muscle damage with its symptomatic; posture distortion, aches, pains, vascular deterioration, blood circulation problems and also with that “excessive”, body bulk; now drooping in front of those muscles which you exercised, the most.

(To understand why, “well, all except for” read The Truth of Exercise)

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Fitness CAUSES Heart Attacks

What is fitness?

The Collins English Dictionary published twenty years ago in 1987 which defines 171,000 words, does not contain an entry for the word “fitness”. The word “fit” has 22 definitions and that’s not including; “fit in”, “fit out” or “fit up”.

The word “fit” by definition number 11 is: “in good health”.

Everyday, “fit” people suffer heart attacks and many of them die; much to the shock and bewilderment of family, friends and indeed, the whole of the western medical profession.

Why are so many, “young footballers” suffering heart attacks; after all, they are the “fittest” people in the world, aren’t they? Almost every day they spend hours exercising; pushing, pulling and pumping on their “clearly visible” solid and bulging muscles.

Surely, “fit people” defined as “people in good health” would not suffer heart attacks, would they? Healthy people do not suffer heart attacks but “fit people” suffer heart attacks. Therefore, “to be healthy” and “to be fit” cannot possibly be the same thing. Ergo, “fit” people are not “healthy” people.

It is quite common, for people over 40 to decide that “it is time to get fit!” and in the misguided belief that “fitness means health”; they embark upon a gruelling regime of sport and exercise, walking or running.

It is currently believed that “exercise is good for us” and that “fitness” gained through “exercise”, improves our body’s “cardio-vascular” system; but it doesn’t.

Well, it improves the “cardio” part, the heart but unless our body’s muscles are in “perfect alignment” when we begin the regime then the “vascular” health, the health of our veins, “veins which are embedded deep within our muscles” diminishes and considerably.

Our heart is only “one half” of our body’s blood circulatory system. The other half; “the returning of the blood to the heart”, the “venous pump” is controlled by all of our body’s other muscles. Fresh blood is pumped out from our heart into the body via the arteries but it returns to the heart, pumped by our muscles via the veins.

Our veins are safely encased within our muscles’ flexible, springy fibres and with each movement, with each expansion and contraction, our muscles squeeze and release the veins and thus, “pump” our blood back to the heart. Therefore the health of our “venous pump”, the returning of our blood back to the heart is dependent upon the health and flexibility of our “body” muscles.

Seized Muscles CANNOT Squeeze Our Veins, CANNOT Return Blood to the Heart

The texture of a muscle is like elastic, if over stretched it loses the soft, springy texture becoming taught, inflexible and in effect, solid.

Our blood vessels, both the “arteries” and the “veins” exist within our muscles. They are all embedded safely and snugly within our muscle’s springy fibres.

When a “muscle seizes” then in effect, it “solidifies” and our arteries become squashed deep within, while our veins which are normally encased within the muscle’s fibres, do not have any space to exist and so, our “veins rise to the muscle’s surface”. They become visible, protruding beneath our skin forming those “blue varicose veins”.

Our Veins and Arteries Suffer when a Muscle Seizes

• Pulling on an over-stretched or indeed, an injured muscle does not and will not repair it; but rather, causes it to “seize” solid and become static; creating stress and misalignment to all its surrounding muscles.
• Pulling 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.

The more we “exercise”, the more we pull, push or pump on over-stretched, injured, seized and misaligned muscles then the more seized muscles we create.

• A seized muscle means “a constricted artery” and reduced blood flow.
• A seized muscle means “a squashed out vein”.
• A seized muscle with its veins on the outside is “incapable” of adequately squeezing and releasing our veins.
• A seized muscle is “incapable” of performing its part in the “venous pump”.
• A seized muscle is “incapable” of returning our blood to the heart.

Our heart is the “only organ” in our body, that in order to function and pump correctly, “depends upon its blood” to be supplied “from our veins”.

Our body transports just 8 pints, 4.5 litres of blood around some 60,000 miles that’s 100,000 kilometres of blood vessels. It is no good turning up the pump of the heart (the cardio), “forcing” blood out into the body, if the “pump of the returning blood”, the “venous pump” cannot keep up “the same pace”.

Seized and seizing muscles are incapable of squeezing our veins enough, to return blood back to the heart “in time” for it to be pumped out again.

It is the “lack of returning blood” that causes the heart to fail.

The heart muscle is “starved of blood”, it goes into “spasm” and “cramps”; creating the intense chest pain as we suffer a “heart attack”.

The problem is not the heart muscle (the cardio) but rather, the bad condition of our body muscles, those housing the veins (the vascular). A bad condition “caused by” the self-same exercise regime adopted to make us “fit”.

“Fitness”, whatever it is; if it is gained by “exercise” then; it is not, “an indicator of our body’s good health”.

Fitness is not Health

Exercise is Bad for Your Body.

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The ideas expressed in this blog are the original concept of Linda Dodds.

All rights reserved. Copyright © Linda Dodds 2008.