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Let’s not forget the obvious reasons. When lifting heavier weight, technique and form are often sacrificed. You may have difficulty breathing and recruiting muscles that aren’t supposed to be engaged in order to lift this weight. Bench pressing is the best example. If someone is lifting too much weight they must arch their back and lift the hips. Most people don’t have any issues lifting the weight as long as they can do so. This is until it starts to hurt. If the weight cannot be moved at the same speed as it can in, and vice versa then the weight is too heavy. It is too heavy if you need to use momentum or rocks to move it. This brings me to the next benefit.

Full contraction

What is a complete contraction? As a muscle activation technology specialist, your job is to make sure that my clients’ muscles contract more effectively. Your muscle can contract fully, which increases blood flow and allows you to build specific muscles. You can push or pull a lighter weight through the full range. Let’s take the bicep curl as an example. Let’s assume that you start with your arms at your sides and a dumbbell in your other hand. Let’s assume that your end position is one where you have the dumbbell in each hand and your palm facing up. As the weight increases, your ability to bring your arm back up and down becomes less effective. You are losing 20% of the strength that you could be building if you stop mid-motion, or at 80%. You can recruit new muscle groups as you fatigue and compensate by leaning to one end or rocking to the other to lift the weight.

Full range of motion

You will be able to move your entire body if you get a full contraction. Many of us who train regularly in a gym know that we can pull or push through certain exercises and not others. These exercises are the best time to either lift a lighter weight or force yourself through the range of motion. This is best illustrated by the dumbbell or row. The row is meant to be a back- and posterior-shoulder exercise. If the weight is too heavy, the majority of the rowing will be done with long heads of triceps or teres major. Many people don’t even manage to raise their arms enough to engage the correct muscles. How can you tell if you’re working the correct muscles and possibly have reached your full range of motion? You will see that your spine is close to the medial border of the scapula if your form is correct. Keep your head up, which you should do with a row, and you’ll feel the cervical muscles engage. They also assist with retraction. If the resistance is not felt in the posterior shoulder, your weight may be too high and you aren’t exercising through all of the motions.

This post was written by Darryl Johnson, Co-Owner of Apex performance. At https://theapexperf.com/ we are a community of highly trained experts looking to provide performance enhancement and a permanent lifestyle change for our clients in a fun and interactive environment. Members can take advantage of one-on-one training, small group classes, and specialized courses for a wide variety of athletics, sports training, and body goals!

Aging is not a disease and needs no cure, but wouldn’t it be wonderful to delay the process? Delaying the effects of aging may not only give you more years but more enjoyment of those years, and that can be a valuable thing to some.

The aches, pains, and conditions related to aging, such as dementia or osteoarthritis, are caused by cellular damage that occurs over time. Even our cells are not immune to wear and tear. Stem cell therapy may offer an opportunity to age more gracefully and perhaps slow the process of getting older.

What Causes Cells to Age?

It is normal for cells to get sick and die. However, when a cell dies, it puts a chain of events in motion, leading to inflammation and disease. Environmental factors such as lifestyle, exposure to toxins and pollutants, stress, and genetics all affect how quickly our cells age. Staying active, avoiding unhealthy foods, and managing stress can help protect cell health and delay aging. Recent studies on stem cell therapy suggest the use of mesenchymal stem cells may also offer hope in the fight against the effects of time.

Stem Cell Therapy – A New Alternative for Age Management

On a cellular level, aging begins as early as our twenties. In time, cell loss and damage can lead to a host of problems, including:

• Fatigue
• Pain
• Loss of bladder or bowel control
• Poor sleep
• Wrinkles and decreased elasticity in the skin
• Vision and hearing impairment
• Cognitive decline

It’s common to think of these issues as normal, but regenerative medicine therapies, including stem cell therapy, may be changing that perception.

Anti-aging stem cell therapies use stem cells to help manage the physical effects of aging. Because stem cells can duplicate themselves into any other cell found in the human body, doctors can utilize stem cell therapy to help potentially stop further tissue degeneration or manage areas where effects of aging have occurred.

The goal is not simply to live longer but to enhance one’s quality of life on a cellular level. By potentially reducing inflammation, mesenchymal stem cell therapies have the potential to minimize the types of debilitating issues that impact aging and help you maintain the active lifestyle you love.

This post was written by a medical professional at Stemedix Inc. At Stemedix we provide access to Regenerative Medicine for hair, also known as Stem cells for hair loss. Regenerative medicine has the natural potential to help improve symptoms sometimes lost from the progression of many conditions.

Toothpaste, the popular liquid you brush your teeth with and the products made from it, have one more advantage over those in the past: toothpaste tablets. A tablet is simply a little piece of plastic or other porous material that can be squeezed or broken open and used as a regular toothbrush. The liquid is still effective, of course, but there’s no messy tubing to deal with, no need to go to the bathroom a few times to take a mouthful. In short, toothpaste tablets are accessible, chew-proof alternatives to their predecessors.

So, how to use them? In recent years, toothpaste tablets have gained notoriety for their environmentally friendly benefits. Manufacturers can now make products with small amounts of green ingredients, including recycled paper, recycled plastics, and soybeans (that come from animals). The problem with green elements, though, is that they don’t biodegrade; they break down. And, while toothpaste has long been made with oils obtained from plants such as mint and coconut oil, those oils tend to break down fairly quickly, making them a poor choice for long-term use in toothpaste tablets.

Instead, manufacturers of toothpaste tablets have begun to engineer toothpaste with entirely biodegradable ingredients, meaning that they will break down without causing any environmental harm. So now, instead of throwing those plastic toothpaste tubes into the trash, your next step is to break open one of these eco-friendly devices and squeeze a few drops of mint extract or some other mild antiseptic into the garbage. After a few weeks, all that toxic gunk that was sitting in your waste will have been reduced to nothing.

With recent advancements in manufacturing technology, toothpaste tablets can be manufactured in a way that doesn’t require toxic packaging. Instead, toothpaste with all-natural ingredients, such as mint extract or aloe vera gel, is often packaged in glass or acrylic cases. These cases are attractive to the eye, and because they don’t contain any plastic, they’re recyclable. Not only is this recycling going on in the most environmentally responsible way possible, but it’s also creating a safer environment for everyone.

One of the easiest ways to ensure that toothpaste tablets and other products are entirely toothpaste-tastic without creating a dangerous mess or using harmful packaging is to buy them from a company committed to using only all-natural ingredients.

At first glance, the concept of toothpaste tablets that are simply powdered or granular in form may seem counterintuitive. After all, isn’t toothpaste supposed to clean your teeth? However, to understand how organics can help, you must know how bacteria form and get trapped in our mouths. Think about how disgusting a bacterial condition plaque (and bad breath) can be and how difficult it is to prevent it once it becomes established. The active wow ingredient is called “thy essence wakame,” which has been shown to help prevent plaque and keep bad breath from coming back.

Toothpaste in tablet or granular form offers many benefits. Still, perhaps the most important is that it can’t cause tooth decay or other dental health issues like regular toothpaste does. Tooth decay, in particular, is a growing problem in the United States, with more children suffering from it as they get older. As a parent, it can be hard to know what to do for your child. If you’re thinking about giving them an extra dose of toothpaste to brush with, think again. You want to provide them with healthy, all-natural toothpaste since tooth decay is caused by eating food that has gone bad, not just the sugar found in regular toothpaste.

With the extra toothpaste, your kids will enjoy additional protection from cavities as well. A third of all cavities develop in children exposed to high levels of fluoride throughout their daily lives. Although the Environmental Protection Agency limits the amount of fluoride in liquid or paste form, toothpaste is still a perfect candidate to add fluoride to your child’s mouth consistently. Toothpaste in tablet or granular form has fluoride to protect your kids’ teeth for years to come, and while it might not make a big difference in the box, it could make a big difference in their health.