Not exact matches
In the article «The
effects of stair climbing on arterial stiffness, blood pressure, and
leg strength in postmenopausal women with stage 2 hypertension,» results are provided from a study involving Korean postmenopausal women who
trained four days a week, climbing 192 steps two to five times a day.
Exercising large muscle groups like your back and
legs, with relatively heavy weight creates a similar result, even though full body
training will greatly accentuate the
effect.
Ex =
effect of proteins in
leg muscles that were
trained.
Rest =
effect of proteins in
leg muscles that were not
trained.
As it turns out, for most persons the muscle mass of the
legs, with large muscles, like Gluteus Maximus (gluts), is ideal for reaching the optimum
training effect with high intensity
training (HIT).
Weight
training: The basic exercises that include the largest muscle groups or even call into play the entire body as a unit (squats, front squats, split squats, deadlifts, stiff
legged deadlifts, overhead presses, all kinds of rows and core - activation exercises) will have a much greater metabolism stimulating
effect than isolation exercises (concentration curls, calf raises, etc)
These results suggest that Alpine skiing combined with rational strength
training involves no special risk for the physical development of young people, has a positive
effect on the power and the percentage of muscle mass in the
legs, and helps to have a higher bone density in the lumbar spine (L2 - L4).
Test of transfer (long - term): to date, only one study has compared the long - term
effects of
training with single -
leg and two -
leg strength
training exercises on COD ability (Speirs et al. 2015) and they found no differences between groups.
Interestingly, in the Holten study they used the same subject to test one -
legged strength
training effect as compared to the contralateral control
leg, to reduce the variation seen in these measures [48].
Holten et al. [48] investigated a number of important biochemical muscle adaptations in both diabetic and non-diabetic individuals in response to 4 weeks of one -
legged low - intensity strength
training and reported possible mechanisms leading to a
training effect including increased protein content of GLUT4, insulin receptor, glycogen synthase and protein - kinase B (PKB) without an increase in muscle mass.
On this basis, some coaches have proposed that the exercise could provide a similar
leg training effect for reduced spinal loading.
But one organization is
training its own team to battle PTSD's
effects on veterans by leading them away from the unending battle with a little help from some four -
legged friends.