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kick off with a fitness test. to day christiane chris and tatyana are measuring how fit they are under the guidance of sports scientist and trainer michelle schmidt. so this test can be done at home. all you need is a bench her chair, a stopwatch pen and paper, a measuring stick, a 30 centimeter high step, and 15 to 20 minutes of time. there are 5 exercises to do 1st up aerobic endurance. when i move them to be able to measure your aerobic endurance, you 1st need to find and check your resting pulse. also important a little warm up and now will be exercised,

walked briskly up and down a 30 centimeter high step for 3 minutes. a simple but important movement in everyday life. last 10 seconds. then they measure their active heart rate and a minute later the recovery heart rate will notice you've been moving. yeah, yeah, but it's good. aerobic endurance is calculated as the sum of resting active and recovery heart rates minus 200 divided by 10. the result there's room for improvement. next comes exercise to flexibility. and once stand with your legs together. nice straight jacket, cow, tried to touch your toes with your fingertips before come as close as you can. would any needs to come? this done should tie his shoes. this way, more often, alex in abilene centimeter does. this allows you to a simple way to significantly improve flexibility in both the hamstrings and the

lower back. all it is to for them. but now it's time to take their shoes off for exercise 3 balance. things could get a little wobbly. one foot is raised just above ankle, height, arms crossed over the chest. the clock stops when the raised foot touches the ground again, or 45 seconds or up. well, for a specific why, it's important, especially when you're running or jumping, it's a good predictor of how stable you're glad, or how much you might hurt yourself during a movement in venice on the being also exercise for strengths. she gets on the hear. the idea is to go from a sitting position to a standing one repeatedly just once or by a bit jaw. you might most of us manage once, that will do it for 60 seconds and then count the ramps. if that is how many repetitions you can do correctly in one minute. also feel here, lank strength is needed.

that's why come those 2 extra grams on my belly. i noticed them by all 3 are out of breath despite their different daily activity levels. bahamas vi and i and the measurements show that all 3 have average endurance levels in the area of the lower limbs. but that's something that can be significantly improved through target and training. like focusing on powerfully standing up from a chair is often from a store and deliberately lowering yourself back down a bit more slowly. and in that for us to have a greater impact on your muscular system. this hot 2nd of mine was cool else's team model. and now the final stage exercise by muscle endurance. get into position and try to bend your legs. i was, they should be relaxed. doing classic set ups for one minute was, indicates the strength, endurance of the trunk muscle to make sure to keep your lower back on the ground

and not home with your neck. 20 seconds. it will the results of average for the men good for tatyana. this test can be used for self evaluation and development and should be repeated under the same conditions after 4 weeks until then try walking upstairs a bit faster level standing out from a chair a little more vigorously or getting in and out of bed differently. but who tried entire shoes like i mentioned, standing up in angus, where just move your body downwards. have been, these are little things can do. and then with such a test, you can easily see what can change as a result of them. and uncle. so expectations versus results. how much room for improvement to these 3 c? still, they all had fun moving their bodies today. a balanced diet is also important for keeping fetch. because only when we consume

a good mix of macro nutrients to our bodies, half the optimal fuel, along with carbohydrates and fats. proteins are especially important that the building blocks, the muscle and tissue. they make a cell phone and support your immune system. and proteins are found in meat, for example, but they're, i kid, alternative sources t you are the best sources of protein for athletes who don't want to eat meat. eggs, eggs are great for athletes because they contain all the amino acids the body, and especially the muscles need. the recommendation for a healthy person is about 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day . summer, new way 70 kilos would need 56 grams. but athletes who lift weights on a regular basis need more. the daily recommendations range between 1.2 and 2 grams per kilo of body weight. so

a person wing 70 kilos needs about 100 grams in one study participants who follow these guidelines and gained 1.3 kilos of muscle mass in 10 weeks. after that more protein didn't improve the results. and egg has an average of 6 grams of protein, and most of that is in the yoke, not the egg white. so you would have to eat 16 eggs to cover your daily requirement . that's way too much more than 3 exit day isn't healthy. that's why you need other sources of protein to like quark, a low fat cur, geez. 100 grams of low fat quark contains about 14 grams of protein. our athlete would therefore need to eat 700 grams to cover the daily requirement. low fat corp also contains a lot of calcium important for bones plus zing to protect the immune system, which is under heavy stress in athlete and sodium,

which sweats out during exercise. another advantage low fat quark has very few calories. and then there are legumes. legumes aren't excellent alternative to meet the kidney beans have 27 grams of protein per 100 grams. dried peas about 30 grams. the front runners are soybeans which contain about 40 grams of protein. legumes are also rich and minerals such as potassium, magnesium, and iron, which are needed for energy metabolism. so our athlete would be 250 grams of soybeans per day, because so it contains estrogen like substances. it's been suspected of promoting breast cancer in women, but several studies found no statistically significant association, while others reported a reduced breast cancer risk for women in the highest soil intake groups. another suspicion is that men's bodies feminized,

when they enjoy an evaluation of several studies, showed no noted effects of so i so flavin on testosterone or estrogen levels in men . these estimates apply to normal consumption quantities and athletes don't just need proteins. so our top 3 are only beneficial as part of a balance diet. how can you get and stay fit on social media and elsewhere? everyone seems to be offering advice. how to tell fact, from fiction. when it comes to fulton fitness smith's abound to make sure you don't hold the half truths. we consulted some true experts. these folks really know that stuff. a sports scientist, a personal trainer and a doctor, you've made fitness, their profession, mit one,

many workouts on. that's effective either working out doesn't take as much time as you think. that's a real misconception. glover wouldn't, as is or, and routine. it's simply a myth to believe that anything under an hour and a half or under an hour is pointless. yoga kenyon, there's hidden training or high intensity training, which can have a huge effect in just half an hour or, or maybe even 20 minutes to newton and even if heck, recon vast and, and ceiling and what's your ultimate goal? when talking about short sessions and gets him ashby court if it's about improving coordination, courtside short sessions can be really good and tie because you're mentally, freshness and learn much better. and then your cognition much better and headphones and on get when it comes to burning fat. when the goal is to create a calorie deficit at a site, that means i want to burn more calories than a consume. and it can also burn calories, which short sessions and heighten and colleen forbidden. so not having the time is no longer an excuse myth t sore muscles mean you had

a good walk out. as is some routine, it's a myth to believe that only people with aching muscles really trained or built up muscle effectively. you can totally train without getting sore muscles, klingon on him with. but people who are just starting out, i should have sore muscles at times void so they get a good feel for the areas of their bodies who has jackline and michael for let. so your muscles suffer micro trauma and cool little microscopic tears when you have muscle pain, as again, as they say, it'll destroy to build mac mask, he destroy something to better it. so new structures, conformational twin debated mankind who construct home sore muscles are a sure sign where you're building up myself. on the other hand, i'm just because your muscles don't age doesn't mean your training wasn't effective . absolutely not tug on some garbage. and by the way, motorists exercised like cycling or stretching ease is aching muscles it vsl circulation, which helps muscles regenerate mit. 3 joking is the best activity for white locks.

the best ish bought and give it a 1st floor to lose weight isn't jogging. it's the one that you have the most fun doing. and it would pretty good talking also hot and joins finding, especially folks who want to lose weight are often too heavy for their joints. feel and find that hard to take hide. nathan, he said, would also thus jog that jogging or strong endurance training in general is best for losing weight. might by definition be going in the right direction, unity because if someone is just looking to lose weight and give them a sports, that's very intensive and burns lots of calories is just the chicken when not really. yes. meliss dish. i'm cuffed, cleaning is as a, with strength training. it's about building up more muscle mass and growth and a larger, more powerful muscle needs more calories on. and so, um, in that sense, strength training might bring more lasting benefits than cardio training guides. collier planning other de carpet, alit naggie behind to let the bodies energy supply systems all operated the same time. the as actually might almost say that a hybrid form like cross fit is really good robertson by spirit and scooters and

hidden strength, endurance speeds of flexibility and n coordination are all trained but few and does she many different aspects which all produce a calorie deficit is and cuddle, india fits it, hashed it in summary i, that's what i, i never say a short work doesn't work because it always depends on your go up and you just fancy it as assisted to log van moscato hot, hot, effective senate about us and would a for those float, ah, the defends, it knocked him many folks jump on the scales right after cardio training and go, hey, i've lost 2 kilos. but honestly what you've lost is water. and that's what you see in the scale to see in gulf. of course, that's great and boost motivation. but the fact exercise makes us happy. so don't let fitness myths spoil your fun. when it's hot till where exerting ourselves,

we sweat. it's all body's own climate controlled. it cools us down. sweat is almost entirely composed of water. but it will say contains electrolytes, essential minerals like chloride, potassium and sodium. so when we pick spiral knowledge, we need to replenish with more than just water. that's exactly how much sold to we lose through scratch. zara. and maxine are our test subjects to day ready to work up a sweat i'm sweating well to day nice and warm to day to ideal. i feel really sticky already. spots scientists popular null time is studying how much salt they sweat out while exercising. and in a sauna we're trying to ensure that as few drops of sweat as possible, dripped down onto the floor, we want to collect all the participants sweat on her part. she can do that well on

her front, but she can't reach her back while she cycling of one of those, as you can see of the towel is getting much heavier. that indicates she's sweating quite well. and we're also managing to collect it on his sweating a lot manger in bad shape. often with what some people claim that unathletic people sweat more, but it's not true at all and also of actually well trained athletes. wetmore, you can imagine the sweat glands, a small tubes, and there are volume increases with this. in other words, the sweat glands also become somewhat larger, anatomically and can produce more sweat, persuade, glad to buy food. i keep going on, meet you at the finish line. i did all of it up, give me some skin i minute times with all those up on the left to the door. you should have done this from the start of that would have been exercise to one

and to slow down. how much so did she sweat? out stress about i don't even know how much you normally and just by and guessing about 3 or 4 grams, i really have no idea on to the scales under, under any change the, you know, 59 kilos and 900 grand one of them. sarah released point 8 late is if sweat during one hour of exercise, if sweat is washed off her body with distilled water to measure just how much so she's in her school, it's closed and towel, also. go into the tub now oldest way his in the bath water paddler naulty takes a sample for the lab. now it's max seems tend to get flashing commission and better not do any worse than sarah for 321 and slow down law. while turned down the

resistance of it, what do you think, how much water if you lost this under half a leader, 3 to 400 milliliters, maybe, and how much salt? i'd say in grams. maybe 20 milligrams or so many kilometers of you know, 74.15 or the regular over kilo. wow, i wouldn't have thought that to morrow and analysis will show how much salt has ended up in maxine's bathwater. but before then, one more test do we sweat differently in a saw mat compared to during exercise. so 20 minutes of sauna, close gibson at match him pitcher of 90 degrees celsius. sweating begins after just a few minutes with similar to exercise. they saw. so

a training effect in the sauna, people who saw no frequently sweat long, do they also lose more salt? 20 minutes is the cash off point, but for a fair comparison, the results are extrapolated to an hour calculation to an hour. we have a swim loss of 1350 milliliters for sarah, and 1950 for maxine law. so almost 2 leaders as i said before, so i included 1.15 leaders earlier more. and now $1.00 leaders an hour alone, away more in the sauna, but it honestly also felt like that. i haven't thought it might be even more since we sweat so much in his own alone. i also find the off to sweating this really intense. now it wasn't like that during exercise, at least i didn't think so before they went. many, neither enough of this wetting. sarah and maxime are about to find out how much salt bags crated in both test. on the sunday you excited to vegas mary, and you go,

yeah, totally. let's say that and i was, i was of these, i've brought you the amounts of salt that you lost maxime during exercise. it was 1.4 grams of salt, and in the sauna 1.8 grams, and sco markham, well, i wouldn't have thought that it up well once other by dis arrow for you, that it was one grammar, sana and 1 point one grams during exercise by the blast of ice combines gum at the . did you expect that for you? no, no. i would have thought it was much less definitely under a gram. i'm with us. is it about if it's so much like with maxime now that has gone to the mo, it's normal that we lose salt when we sweat and we can usually compensate for it with our diet. it's only a problem when we exert ourselves for a long time, like several hours or an extreme heat and exclaim, i had. so they said, my thing was right, that i lost more sweat in a sauna than i did during exercise than others. asthma, exactly. you sweat more in the sauna, but the sweat is less salty than when you're exercising on the bite galaxy outs by

their beloved though the o hm. 5, the motto. health interesting. i thought you always with the same as my sweat a sweat. did you know that? no, that no, i didn't know there were differences if you also don't know to said that i didn't have the feeling that my sweat was more salty doing exercise than in the sooner i'm of import martinez than ivona. but when you, each after exercising, don't assume you need to heap on the salt. a loss of salt and other minerals can be found in whole grains, leggings and nuts. they supply the body with a sufficient amount. only those who do not have insurance, thoughts need additional salt back teach, you know, there's a link between the salt. we sweat out and muscle cramps and it's not just athletes who are affected or when the weather turns hot. many people start searching the internet for the term muscle cramps more. often. there seems to be a connection, but not only there with a lot of vice when the dust, we now know that muscle spasm so strongly related to what is happening in our

nervous system. it seems that nerves in the spinal cord are particularly over sensitive, and that probably can cause muscle spasms to develop a hot food entity from us. we come from this explains why people with chronic back pain caused by a herniated disk or constriction in the spinal canal. are more likely to suffer from light cramps it, disrupts in the interaction of nerves and muscles. stimulus transmissions take place at the ends of the motor nerves. nerve impulses lead to muscle contractions. if a nerve fires uncontrollably, the muscles become over stimulated, or the muscles develop a hyper sensitive reaction to normal stimuli. both lead to spasms. then you might understand why someone frequently suffers from severe muscle cramps is voted in. it should be investigated

. and i can cohen many diseases cause muscle cramps which can then be caught in timer, said he, i can't read and couldn't, and then you can treat the cause commonalty to it was a 100. the standard recommendation for cramps is magnesium, but it doesn't help every one. what else can be done? it can hurt helpless stretching before going to bed. if you want to prevent crabs in, especially the calf muscles, human got it through passive stretching and working. the muscles that you can reduce the tendency to cramp at night, be comfortable with the knots for mindon at university hospital gooding in don't. chesney is researching the causes of frequent muscle cramps. he measures how the nurse was affect the muscles and actually fines, nerve damage in this patient. this, the pin was the only case that their nurse stimulation is exaggerated. or yet, in this case, it's likely the result of an accident. frequently though,

the tests can't detect a specific cause, when enough, then i would, i think we call it benign muscle spasm syndrome because we can detect any nerve damage with our diagnostic sick. gnostic is this, that often ending soil. we're only able to alleviate symptom this long, rather than bring them to a complete stop and turn them treatments for muscle cramps often don't help enough . it's a frequent issue for athletes, especially in high performance sports. and it can decide a tournament. sports scientists, michelle bellinger, is researching a new treatment. a type of desensitization researchers trigger cramps with electrical impulses in order to prevent them later. i think what we found with this particular form of muscle stimulation was that we could significantly increase the spasm threshold in healthy individuals and not just in the short term, but over a long period. on in follow up studies,

we were able to show that this has positive effects on patients, meaning we could reduce the frequency of spontaneously occurring cramps. well this will 1st, the individual spasm threshold is measured, the person thought so the pace then the researchers trigger cramps in the muscles, battling spasms with more spasms, distinct asthma paradox at 1st that sounds paradoxical. but we need to keep in mind that patients who are plagued by seizures and wake up many times a night would rather have a controlled seizure during the day. and if it means sleep on through the night that i feel bad enough to shuffle. electro therapy is still in the research phase, so for now stretching magnesium, and in some cases, medication can help provide relief for cramp sufferers. mm hm. and there's no cramping the style of our fitness coach. althea, she's back with a new exercise. hi

and welcome to day we do a lovely exercise which you can do in your daily life. for example, when you're on your way to the grocery shopping. when you pick up your children from the school, or when you want to meet your friends just everywhere, you just need nothing else than yourself and your space around to. so i found this wonderful place where we do that dip. you can take something like this or you can take a bench stairs or just something where you can put your heads on. bring your hands next to your hip, and then bring your but slightly in front. and then we moved down. and we tried to have our upper arms parallel to the floor and then we push up our slope.

with the dip is a wonderful exercise for your triceps, but for your whole arm, your shoulders and chest. my recommendation is to do $10.00 to $15.00 reps. 3 sets of fun keeping fit and see you next time on dw, help show in good shape for with, ah, a with

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