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The Power of your Metabolism
The MetabolismSEDENTARY LIFESTYLE
Our current lifestyle includes a large variety of technological advances that do not require our physical activity. Nowadays, we are surrounded by cell phones, microwaves, televisions, computers, vacuum cleaners and numerous other kinds of equipment, that require very little physical effort to operate.
The present tendency is to move our bodies less and use more of our mind and senses. We are often sports spectators as opposed to actually playing sports ourselves. The daily “rush” seems to leave little time for exercising, walking, swimming or any other type of body movement. In general, we even use our cars to drive to the next corner to get some necessity when we could have walked a little. On the other hand, we sometimes fear for our security and “walking to the corner store” may not be the best option depending on the neighborhood.
Even children today spend a good part of their time and energy playing electronic games, when years ago they played and sweated with enthusiasm. Watching television has turned into a main activity as much for children as it has for adults. We live lives of little or no physical activity; a sedentary life.
It has been proven that physical activity increases the metabolism and a sedentary life decreases it. The human body is a living organism that learns and adapts to existing conditions. When we stop using our muscles they become flaccid. When we use them they grow and strengthen. Our body adapts to our lifestyle.
Now, even though the former is true, I’m not going to ask you to start doing exercises if you feel your metabolism is very slow. It’s not the time to criticize you because of your lack of desire to exercise your body.
The years that I’ve spent helping people with “slow metabolism” have taught me to observe what works and what doesn’t work. The fact that you have a slow metabolism, proven by your difficulties in losing weight, does not mean that it is time to start doing exercise or buying a membership to a gym. Exercise is a great help and is vital in being able to recover the maximum possible of your metabolism, but everything in life has its appropriate time and exercise is not an exception to this rule.
Logic tells us that to be able to do exercise, a person needs to expend energy. But people with slow metabolism have very little energy! That’s exactly what having a “slow metabolism” means, it is having too little energy because your metabolism is what produces the body’s energy. People that suffer from slow metabolism are always tired and feel weak. It is illogical to ask a weak and tired person to spend whatever little available energy they have to go to the gym and exercise. It’s like trying to go on a spending spree with no money available in your checking account. In order to spend some energy in exercise you must first have it available.
When a person with slow metabolism that is also overweight or obese gets into an exercise routine, they put themselves at risk of failing in their attempt because it is forcing their body to a point that is further than the limit of their capacity. 70 % of people with new gym memberships stop going within just a few weeks of having started and paid their annual membership fee. They are weak, tired people that really don’t have the necessary energy to do exercise for very long without collapsing from exhaustion. They are people that have a slow metabolism.
The solution to this problem is to apply the CORRECT SEQUENCE. In life, things have a sequence; they have an order. The correct sequence of actions is: improve your nutrition and metabolism to obtain more energy and then use this new energy in an exercise routine that increases your metabolism even more. In other words, it is depositing enough money in your checking account so that later you can go write checks to spend the money. Using checks without having available funds in your bank account leads to “bounced checks”. In the same way, doing exercise without first having enough energy makes us fail in the attempt due to the lack of energy to continue.
Within a few days of having incorporated a diet plan that includes more proteins (meat, cheese, eggs) and less refined carbohydrates (bread, flour, rice, potatoes, sweets) you will feel a considerable increase of energy. Also, by drinking more water and taking a high potency vitamin and mineral supplements you will create a surplus of body energy that you can then use to start doing light exercises which will increases your metabolism even more. If someone starts eating a good breakfast and then adds to it the organic coconut oil supplement, not only will they have more energy to put into exercise, they will also feel the desire to move their body. The additional energy that a proper diet creates makes people feel “light” and makes them have the desire to move their bodies.
Many people fail in their attempts in doing exercise simply because they forget that in order to spend energy they have to have energy available in the first place.
The other most common cause of failure in a new exercise routine is the situation of LACK OF A GRADIENT. A “gradient” is a level, grade or power for something. For example, stairs are “gradients” in a staircase. The different temperatures of a thermometer are “gradients” of temperature. Gradients are important in life. First you crawl, then you walk and then you finally run. These are different gradients of actions of different intensities and they are necessary.
When overweight or obese people decide to start exercising, they are making the right decision. But they are going to be even more right and more successful with their knowledge and application of these factors. The first goal is to obtain more energy from their metabolism through food and some natural supplements that help increase energy levels. The second goal is to choose an APPROPRIATE GRADIENT for the level of exercise. If a person expects to be able to run a marathon after having spent the last 20 years of their life working in front of a computer at the office and while lacking energy, they most definitely are going to add another failure to their list of previous failures.
The key is to start exercising after you have obtained more energy from your metabolism and to start doing exercise slowly on an appropriate intensity gradient, like walking, swimming or another type of exercise that isn’t incredibly straining to a body that has been more accustomed to a sedentary lifestyle. For example, if you initially do exercises that cause a lot of muscular pain, the gradient is too intense for your body. If someone decides to walk and walks so fast that they have trouble breathing they are walking too quickly for their current respiratory ability. Exercising on the right gradient doesn’t cause severe muscular pain or trouble breathing. More people fail because they select an improper exercise gradient that is too intense for their “out of shape” body than for any other reason. The “desperation” or “rush” that we have when we start a new workout routine is always the root cause of the eventual failure.
The way in which exercise gives results is by increasing the gradient little by little. Say we start with 15 minutes a day, 4 days a week. The following week we go up to 20 minutes of exercise, and keep on increasing little by little, to give your body the opportunity to get used to the routine. In no time you will have improved your physical condition, but by using GRADIENTS.
Any exercise is good when it comes to increasing your metabolism. My favorite, without having to buy any kind of special equipment, is walking. I recommend that people initially only walk until they come to a slight sweat. It is at this point where the metabolism has been increased enough to create the heat that caused the sweat. The metabolism generates heat and the heat provokes sweat. The point where your body starts to sweat is the point where you have already succeeded in increasing your metabolism with exercise.
However, I should mention that there is an exercise that in my experience works better than all others in boosting your metabolism. It is an exercise in which you bounce on a small trampoline to the rhythm of music.
I have never seen an exercise help people lose weight more quickly than bouncing on a small trampoline. I spent many years researching different kinds of exercise that could help overweight or obese people, taking into consideration that these people don’t have large amounts of energy or strength. I saw that some exercises are definitely not appropriate for overweight people because they are exercises like jogging, which can cause damage on the knees or weight lifting, which can hurt the back. Other exercises have the main disadvantage of being boring, like walking on a treadmill or lifting weights. Some require a lot of space, or specialized equipment like exercise bikes or swimming pools.
Bouncing on a small trampoline is a low impact exercise that any overweight or obese person can do. It doesn’t require much strength because the trampoline absorbs the resistance of the bounce. According to the studies I’ve seen, trampolines have the main benefit of exercising the ENTIRE body due to the bouncing motion and of going against and then in favor of gravity while also stimulating and exercising all of the cells of the body without exception.
This type of exercise works out ALL of the cells in your body. The body’s cells, with their coordinated actions, are the ones that generate the metabolism or the energy of the body. When all of them are exercised, they are stimulated to increase the metabolism.
My experience is that doing this exercise for just 15 minutes made my body keep on sweating for more than an hour (1) after having stopped, which indicated to me that I had successfully and noticeably increased my metabolism. After three weeks of doing the bouncing exercise for just 15 minutes, 3 days a week, I had to go to a tailor to have all of my clothes adjusted and that made it obvious that this exercise really reduces a good amount of the body’s fat.
There is a scientific reason as to why exercising on the trampoline seems to be much more effective than other exercises in helping people increase their metabolism and lose weight. It has to do with the design of the body. The 
human body eliminates toxins and fats through what is called the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system is composed of tiny ducts. These ducts are so small that blood doesn’t fit in them. An off-white liquid flows through the lymphatic system that is called lymph. The body disposes and gets rid of the toxins of the cells and the fats in this liquid, the lymph. We could say that the lymphatic system is the body’s drainage system. It is the system that the body uses to eliminate what isn’t needed anymore from what is left over from the reactions inside the cells. The lymphatic system doesn’t have a pump that pushes this liquid, the lymph, like in the case of the blood’s circulatory system where our heart serves as a pressure pump. The lymph moves with gravity and with the help of the body’s movements. The bouncing movement on the small trampoline that moves with and against gravity moves the lymph fluid and extracts the body’s toxins from the cells and also the fat. This is why this type of exercise in particular helps a lot in increasing your metabolism and decreasing the fat in your body.
What I liked the most about bouncing on the trampoline was that it was enjoyable; I didn’t find myself bored like I did with other types of exercise. Bouncing to the music without feeling an impact on my knees and bouncing to the rhythm, the 15 minutes of exercise went much faster than any other exercise that I had done before.
There are various books written in reference to this bouncing exercise, as well as studies done by NASA that show its effectiveness is superior to other exercises like jogging or running on a treadmill. NASA uses trampolines to exercise the astronauts when they return from space missions because it helps them regain their balance and recuperate their muscles after a prolonged period of being in space without gravity.
Physical exercise, of any kind, has an added benefit that will help you. Physical exercise significantly lowers the effects of daily stress. When we are stressed, our body produces a lot of cortisol and this hormone doesn’t only make us fat in the abdomen and hips, it also doesn’t allow us to sleep well. Cortisol is a hormone that causes insomnia and sleeping problems. The combination of an abundance of stress, a large amount of cortisol and lack of good sleep is one of the main obstacles in losing weight. People that don’t sleep well also don’t lose weight because they have levels of cortisol that are too high. When we exercise, the body gets rid of a good amount of the cortisol that is accumulated from the stress experienced during the day through the liver and that’s why after doing exercise we always sleep much better and wake up feeling rested.
So, if you want to improve your metabolism you have to exercise. Nevertheless, make sure that you first increase your energy production level by improving your diet before going and spending energy that you don’t have. After you have acquired more energy to invest in your exercises make sure you start on an appropriate exercise gradient so that you are successful in your attempt and feel good about yourself.
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