Muscle Building Blog

Patients with cancer, heart disease and other chronic illness struggle not only with complications inherent to their disease, they also experience an involuntary loss of weight and muscle mass triggered by the body's natural response to infection and inflammation. Increasing nutrition intake does not mitigate the process and there is no treatment.

Patients with cancer, heart disease and other chronic illness struggle not only with complications inherent to their disease, they also experience an involuntary loss of weight and muscle mass triggered by the body's natural response to infection and inflammation. Increasing nutrition intake does not mitigate the process and there is no treatment.

Ever notice – as you grow older – that things just seem to get heavier? Ever watch a person of advanced age struggle to hoist a carry-on bag into the overhead compartment of an aircraft?

When it comes to losing weight it is pretty much a struggle for everyone. In today’s food environment it can be hard for anyone to lose weight without knowing the proper things to do and keeping the motivation to keep going. If you lose your motivation you’re going to put back on what you lost. Portion Control When it comes to your food you’ll want to exercise portion control. When doing this you’ll want to divide your meals out to smaller meals around 5-6 rather than 3 large meals per day.

I can do this. I can do this. I can do this. I have been repeating these words to myself since my very first class this morning. I didn’t sleep enough or stretch enough yesterday and my body is feeling it today. Muscles are tight, I’m tired, and everything is a struggle. But at the first sign of resistance in lower body conditioning I starting telling myself, “I can do this.” Each time it felt too hard to keep working a muscle I repeated the thought until I made it through the set.