Questions? Ready to start your project? Contact Us

10.11.2022

Improve Your Health

A woman bench pressing.

Many of the proteins produced in our bodies are produced by skeletal muscle. We often only associate skeletal muscle with the locomotion of our bodies, yet the muscular system and its mechanical activity is much more complex. Skeletal muscle in actuality is the largest organ in the body.

Muscle fiber contractions are required for breathing, posture, movement and the application of force and as importantly the secretion of proteins. Through its secretions muscles communicate with the liver, pancreas, bones, adipose tissue, its own cells and even the brain.

Cytokines are a broad range of small proteins that transmit various signals for cell survival, proliferation, differentiation, and functional activity. Those expressed by skeletal muscle are classified as ‘myokines’. Myokines released by muscle fibers exert paracrine (cell producing signals to induce changes in nearby cells), endocrine (cell communication through the circulatory system), and autocrine effects (signaling through hormones or chemicals to the receptors of the same cell).

Many proteins are dependent upon the muscle’s contraction. A physically limited lifestyle and excessive sedentary behavior alters myokine response and becomes a cause for many chronic diseases. Many participate in aerobic fitness, flexibility, mobility training, yoga, walking and high intensity movements – which are all constructive components of fitness. Discounting none of the aforementioned activities, one should include weight training throughout their entire lives as the benefits of skeletal muscle retention and its contractions are essential in living a longer healthier lifestyle.

Get and keep Strong.


Releasing Proteins for a Healthy Lifestyle

related

A Pulling Machine

A tremendously popular exercise to train the latissimus dorsi and associated muscles is the pulldown movement. Coaches, athletes, trainers and gym enthusiasts all use a variety of grips to target areas of the back that they want or need to...

Manual Training Has Rules

In 1979 Manual Resistance was introduced at the National  Strength and Conditioning Convention. Weight training’s ability to enhance athletic performance had become accepted and coaches were beginning to be hired by major sports programs. Facilities everywhere were extremely limited or...

Powerful Hands

The hand is a complex anatomical system. This appendage is composed of twenty seven bones and fifteen joints. Having 30 degrees of rotational and translational freedom it’s able to grasp and apply force to objects of multivarious shapes and sizes....