Essential to Any Physical Transformation Program Posts 003 and 004 explained how the body produces the energy that drives exercise by combining oxygen from the bloodstream with glucose, the type of sugar the body burns as its fuel. Now, other things being equal, at some point this combining of oxygen with glucose would exhaust the […]
Post 003 explained how eating sufficient amounts of protein at breakfast, lunch, and dinner helps your body produce a sustained level of energy throughout the day. It also explained how your body burns glucose, a particular form of sugar, to produce the energy it uses to fuel all muscle contraction, including that which drives exercise. […]
When deconditioned individuals – fully deconditioned individuals in particular – think about beginning an exercise program, they typically harbor a silent fear. This fear is: “How will I ever be able to exercise if I don’t even have the energy to get up off the couch?” Some folks try to avoid confronting this fear by […]
The principle of accommodation is fundamental to all exercise that aims to increase the body’s level of fitness, strength, endurance, or muscularity. This principle holds that when the body is stressed to a certain degree through exercise, and is then allowed to recuperate properly, the body accommodates the level of stress imposed on it by […]
Regardless of what drew you to these pages, you’re undoubtedly interested in transforming your body in one way or another to make it more perfect, however you define that. This desire is universal, and is something so valuable and precious that it deserves to be celebrated, encouraged, refined, amplified, and acted on. Why? It’s because […]
Welcome to yourhealthblog.org! I’m Jock Scarsborough, a Ph.D. Economist and former competitive bodybuilder who’s devoted his life to health, fitness, nutrition, and exercise. Over the course of my life, I’ve learned many, many things about living a healthy, happy, and long life. While the knowledge I’ve amassed would greatly benefit others, very little of it […]