B&B #2

Hello and welcome everyone...con't breathing and balance. Strive for full body alignment...mind, muscles, breathing and balance will
produce greater performance, energy and endurance. Rapid, shallow breathing. This type of breathing is often caused by poor
posture and weak or stiff muscles leads poor oxygen supply,
respiratory disease, sluggishness or heart disease. Simple ways to
deepen breathing and to cleanse the lungs. These exercises increase
energy and decrease tension. 1) lie flat on your back and have pillows for under your neck and knees creating a sight rise in the
stomach upon inhaling and slight fall when exhaling. 2) place hands palm down on stomach at base of rib cage. Lungs go down
that far. What fills them deeper is the pushing down of the diaphragm, creating a suction drawing air into the lungs. Air is
expelled when diaphragm pushes up. Process...oxygen fills lungs and gets into blood stream for distribution to the cells. Carbon dioxide is expelled from the blood when exhaling cleansing the
body. Continued next week.
Have a meaningful life...Jimmy O
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B&B #1

Hello and welcome everyone...let's get it on. Fitness people, listen up! Not all fitness evolves around weight lifting, treadmills, shoes
or wheels. When attaining and maintaining desired levels of speed,
muscle mass, endurance and conditioning...pay attention to proper
breathing and functional balance. Just because you can walk without falling, does not mean you have functional balance. In my
athletic summer camps, teenagers think they have balance...until
they engage in the first session. We want to train the brain to send
the correct signal to the muscles to give us the performance desired,
known as the PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT performance. Balance is attained from the inner ear and nerve endings in our feet.
Breathing exercises are critical. A 20% reduction in oxygen blood
levels may be caused by the aging process and normal breathing
habits. Poor breathing robs energy and negatively affects mental
alertness. Unless breathing is exercised, aging affects the respiratory system as follows. Stiffness and rapid shallow breathing. Continued next week.
Have a meaningful life everyone...Jimmy O
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Psy Moment

Hello and welcome everyone...my blog has covered and illustrated
various drills and exercises, plyo, iso, weight room, prep and cool
down, mental toughness, cross training, my personal training programs and most sports...also included were natural foods for
increased energy and remedies to combat pain. Getting back to new
drills...we start with breathing exercises and meditation. My reference sources are Lumosity, Dr. Oz, Johns Hopkins Inst., Mayo
Clinic and Duke Univ. Breathing exercises should be practiced at
least twice a day...benefit, expand the lungs for more oxygen capacity. More oxygen equals more energy, endurance, strength,
confidence and mental discipline. Enhances one's "performance  
rhythm." Meditation...isn't new, however it is new to the sports
world, in training prior to competing and in every day life for many
of us. The approach to proper training and competing is changing.
Our aptitude for that psychological moment is critical..."the time
when a person is most apt to react in the desired manner."
Have a meaningful life everyone...Jimmy O
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Healing Power

Hello and welcome everyone...once or twice each year I need to get
off the highway and take a side road or a back road. The drive allows me to think and get in touch with my inner self. For me it's
therapy...a healing power. During this drive I think back to my childhood, my life...reality. Yesterday, I was on one of my backroads and thought about the main pieces of one's life. We drive
or are driven by Time, Distance, Numbers, Connections and a Greater Power. Connections are much more than social friends. Connections in this context are people you can rely on to
provide you with true answers for your success. We need to minimize our mistakes. We have little Time for "do overs." As we
age, Distance and Numbers become more important. I call these
pieces the CORE 5. I live by it...it works.

Have a meaningful life everyone...Jimmy O
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ATP (recap)

 Hello and welcome everyone...let's make this simple. Muscles run on ATP, and we have three ways of making ATP.
1) The aerobic system...A) makes lots of ATP slowly. B) Burns fat
and sugar to make ATP. C) Is oxygen dependent. D) Gives endless
energy. 2) The lactate system...A) Makes less ATP but does it fast.
B) Burns only sugar to make ATP. C) Requires no oxygen. D) Yields up to seven minutes of energy. 3) The creatine-phosphate
system. A) Makes small amounts of ATP super fast. B) ATP comes
from stored ATP and creatine-p inside muscle. C) Does not need
oxygen, fat or sugar to function. D) Lasts ten seconds. Understanding the three systems will allow you to design an effective training program. It will help you understand when and
what to eat. It gives you the basis for selecting the right length and
intensity of your workouts.

Have a meaningful life everyone...Jimmy O
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ATP (3)

Hello and welcome everyone...the creatine-phosphate system. The
third and last method to build fresh ATP. REMINDER...ATP is
defined as adenosine tri phosphate...most important molecule in the
body. Carries energy necessary to facilitate all of the processes of
human metabolism. Each muscle cell contains another chemical
with hot phosphorus on the end...likened to a kitchen match. The
wooden part of the match is creatine, when it's phosphorus is in
place, it's called creatine-p. Sprinters...you need creatine-p. It
doesn't need enzymes to produce energy; it explodes as needed.
Releasing energy fast enough to rebuild ATP no matter how fast you run. This is not a slow cumbersome system...it's instantaneous.
Force yourself to learn the three energy systems, even if you're
only interested in losing weight. Next week...recap.

Have a meaningful life everyone...Jimmy O
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ATP (2)

Hello and welcome everyone...how do we ignite the correct source
of energy and at the proper time of need. When your run aerobically, as long as there is plenty of oxygen, ATP will be
manufactured from the breakdown of fat and sugar. This system can produce almost limitless amounts of ATP if you need energy
for endurance exercise, count on the aerobic system. Lactate System...in contrast, when you run anaerobically, the lack of oxygen not only turns off fat burning, it also blocks pyruvate from
entering the Krebs cycle. Pyruvate builds up and is converted to
lactic acid, or lactate. The only ATP produced comes from the burning of sugar halfway, so the amount of energy produced is
limited. The beauty of this system is that it doesn't have to wait for oxygen, so ATP is produced very fast. If you need fresh ATP in a
hurry, the lactate system will kick in to burn lots of sugar molecules
quickly. You will get quick energy...but it won't last. Creatine-
Phosphate...third method to build fresh ATP. will continue in part
three, next week.
Have a meaningful life everyone...Jimmy O
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