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BEST REASON TO BE A SUSPECT - EXERCISE PRESCRIPTION FOR THE SUSPECTED HEALTHY

Learn what to emphasize while exercising to improve aerobic fitness, and the difference between aerobic power and aerobic endurance.

Exercise Prescription

Moran Sciamama-Saghiv

Oct 13, 20235 min read

EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS TO HEALTH BENEFITS; OH BABY, WHAT A WORKOUT - PART II

Meaningful health benefits await an expecting mother and her baby if they exercise before and during the pregnancy.

Parenting

Moran Sciamama-Saghiv

Oct 6, 20235 min read

BLINDLY KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON - PROPRIOCEPTION!

Proprioception reduces the need to direct your eye sight at all of your body parts all the time, in order to know what to do next.

Introductory Posts

Moran Sciamama-Saghiv

Oct 6, 20234 min read

DOOMS DAY OR D.O.M.S. DAY?

I am ex-military. "No pain, no gain", and "pain is a weakness leaving the body" are phrases I have heard before more than once.

Introductory Posts

Moran Sciamama-Saghiv

Oct 4, 20233 min read

INTRO TO EXERCISE PRESCRIPTION

Exercise professionals such as person trainers, prescribe exercise as the last step of a long process of learning their client profoundly.

Exercise Prescription

Moran Sciamama-Saghiv

Oct 4, 20234 min read

DON'T KNOW SQUAT??? - HAPPY TO EXPLAIN!

Squats offer an amazing opportunity to take advantage of one of the most unique skeletal muscular contractions combinations.

Introductory Posts

Moran Sciamama-Saghiv

Oct 3, 20234 min read

BRIDGING THE DIFFERENCES

The cross bridges created between myosin and actin in the sarcomere, hold the key to understanding muscle fiber force production.

Introductory Posts

Moran Sciamama-Saghiv

Sep 28, 20233 min read

THE SARCOMERE SIMPLIFIED

The sarcomere is the smallest contractile unit of a muscle. They are capable of producing force.

Introductory Posts

Moran Sciamama-Saghiv

Sep 28, 20234 min read

LET'S GET THOSE MUSCLES IN SHAPE!

One of the most basic principles and rules of nature, function, movement, and motion analysis, is that structure determines function.

Introductory Posts

Moran Sciamama-Saghiv

Sep 28, 20234 min read

RESPIRATORY ADAPTATIONS TO CHRONIC (PROLONGED) EXERCISE

Ultimate functional capacity of the lungs is represented by minute ventilation (L/min). It is the outcome tidal volume and respiratory rate.

Exercise

Moran Sciamama-Saghiv

Sep 27, 20235 min read

ENERGY EXPENDITURE EXPLAINED

Knowing how much oxygen a person. consumes allows us to know how much energy they invested in an exercise. It is called energy expenditure.

Metabolism

Moran Sciamama-Saghiv

Sep 24, 20233 min read

"BURNING" FAT EXPLAINED

Burning fat originates from the knowledge that when fat reacts with oxygen, a combustion reaction occurs, releasing light or heat energy.

Metabolism

Moran Sciamama-Saghiv

Sep 24, 20235 min read

MUSCULAR FITNESS COMPONENTS - WEIGHT LIFTING

Weight lifting workouts are mostly an anaerobic activity. The term "muscular" is used to indicate weight lifting as an anaerobic workout.

Biomechanics & Motion Analysis

Moran Sciamama-Saghiv

Sep 21, 20232 min read

MUSCLE WORK DYNAMICS

Skeletal muscles develop force, that is used to pull on a tendon, that in turn, pulls on a bone, resulting in skeletal movement.

Exercise Physiology

Moran Sciamama-Saghiv

Sep 21, 20232 min read

SKELETAL MUSCLE FIBERS TYPES EXPLAINED

As part of it principles structure, skeletal muscles are arranged in groups of muscle fibers surrounded by fascia.

Weight Lifting

Moran Sciamama-Saghiv

Sep 20, 20234 min read

LEVERS OF THE BODY

A lever can be defined as a simple tool to lift weights or loads (overcome mechanical resistance).

Introductory Posts

Moran Sciamama-Saghiv

Sep 17, 20234 min read

THE ROLES OF SKELETAL MUSCLES IN MOVEMENT

Skeletal muscles create gross or skeletal movement by pulling on a tendon, that in turn pulls on the bone.

Biomechanics & Motion Analysis

Moran Sciamama-Saghiv

Sep 17, 20233 min read

THE REPETITION MAXIMUM SCALE

The Repetition Maximum (RM) Scale is used to estimate the intensity of weight lifting workouts.

Introductory Posts

Moran Sciamama-Saghiv

Sep 17, 20233 min read

THE RULES OF NATURE

The rules of nature; an introduction to how your brain thinks.

Exercise

Moran Sciamama-Saghiv

Sep 10, 20234 min read