Muscle

MUSCLE THE MAGNIFICENT

Muscles are magnificent as are our whole bodies. So as I am talking a lot about fitness and working out to tone my muscles and make them stronger. I thought it was only right to touch on the subject of the muscle itself.

I say touch on the subject because muscle like any other part of our body is worthy of a thousand books and the subject would still supply more information. We don’t want to go to in depth just a little light reading.

We have throughout our bodies three types of muscle they are skeletal, smooth and cardio muscles. Skeletal muscle is a voluntary muscle that we use to move our bodies and we can consciously control these muscles like when we walk we are consciously moving all the muscles it takes for us to walk. Cardio and smooth muscles are involuntary muscles that contract and work without us realizing. Cardio muscle is found in the heart and smooth muscle is found in our other internal organs.

It just gives us an insight to how important our muscles are, because without them we just couldn’t exist. This also makes me realise that there are also a lot more muscles in our bodies than the ones we can see. Muscles are magnificent, they carry on regardless, they take the fuel we put in our bodies and use it to keep us functioning, they repair themselves and if we work them hard on a regular basis they will grow bigger and stronger.

Skeletal muscle is the muscle that we are working when we lift those weights or go running. These are the muscles we can sculpt if we were bodybuilding and these are the muscles I am working out for to tone up and make stronger.

So do muscles get the respect they deserve ? Probably not, why because we never really give them a second thought unless we happen to pull one and then we moan about the pain that particular muscle is giving us.

Yes its time to start loving our muscles and giving them a regular workout to keep them strong and in peak condition, they love it. With strong healthy muscles we can only benefit because our bodies will function more efficiently and keep us going long into old age.

So look after them, they are magnificent.