Fitness To You Personal Training provides in-home and office personal fitness training in Westmoreland, Fayette, and surrounding counties in southwestern PA.
Losing muscle mass is one of the main reasons that our metabolisms drop as we age or remain physically inactive. The older we get, the more muscle we lose — somewhere around 10-15% every decade we age. If a muscle is not stimulated properly (microscopically torn) through exercise it will have no reason to grow (repair itself) or strengthen, and it will begin to break down. This is because it requires energy to maintain muscle mass, and the body wants to conserve energy. So, a person can weigh the same throughout his/her entire adult life, but actually continue to lose muscle mass and gain fat. This is what happens with so many people. They grow unhealthier as they age, their metabolisms slow down, yet they may not even know it because they have always weighed the same. Developing muscle will increase your metabolism, but that muscle has to be maintained if you want to keep a higher metabolism. This is why weight training has to be a part of your life if you want to remain healthy, and build and maintain a higher metabolism.
Everyone can eat a better diet. This is a hard task to accomplish though, as letting go of past habits and what modern society tells us to do can be very difficult. To accomplish your goals and improve your health, your diet must be improved. You must begin to educate yourself more about foods, those which are good and bad, and why, and how you can greatly improve your diet. It is also very beneficial to have someone helping you and pushing you to become more disciplined about what you eat.