Sentences with phrase «muscle activity as»

There may be adaptations that would limit the increases in muscle activity as subjects become more accustomed to the motion of the flexible bar.»

Burning fat is a more effective long - term fuel but is more complex to process and isn't as readily accessible for quick bursts of muscle activity as is a fuel like glucose.

It was developed by monitoring normal brain and muscle activity as the monkey moved its own arms.

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As the activity of the sympathetic nervous system decreases, the parasympathetic nervous system kicks in, keeping cortisol levels, heart rate, muscle tension, digestive function, secretion and other processes back toward homeostasis.

Instead, he says anaerobic activities, such as weight training and sprinting, are the most effective for building lean muscle mass, which will increase your metabolism and decrease fat.

However, as an athlete, you'll most likely require more protein than someone who lives a sedentary lifestyle, simply because your body demands more of your muscles through activity, training, and recovery.

Let me first give a very simple description of plyometric activity: It's basically defined as movement that enables a muscle to reach maximum strength in as short time as possible.

These benefits include becoming skilled in utilizing different muscle groups as well as providing «active» rest for a body that may become over-worked from a singular activity.

Although current science is not complete, it appears that, as with adults, the total amount of physical activity is more important for achieving health benefits than is any one component (frequency, intensity, or duration) or specific mix of activities (aerobic, muscle - strengthening, bone strengthening).

This activity should include aerobic activity as well as age - appropriate muscle - and bone - strengthening activities.

These stress ball balloons are a fun activity for your child to make themselves, and are great for learning emotions as well as giving finger muscles a good workout!

There are some kids who find it less fun to engage in tummy time activity which is largely recommended by pediatrics as it strengthens the arm and back muscles.

More fun developing the hand muscles over on 123 Homeschool me which has some maths ideas as well as a free printable to help with the activity.

Making an activity more active can help her brain process the information in more than one way — as verbal or visual information and as a muscle memory.

As long as you're right next to her to prevent falls, crawling up and down carpeted stairs is a safe activity that helps strengthen large muscles and increase coordinatioAs long as you're right next to her to prevent falls, crawling up and down carpeted stairs is a safe activity that helps strengthen large muscles and increase coordinatioas you're right next to her to prevent falls, crawling up and down carpeted stairs is a safe activity that helps strengthen large muscles and increase coordination.

Your babies develop primary senses in the first few months followed by regaining motor strength and muscle power with simple activities such as sitting, crawling and rolling - over.

Window activities are also great for strengthening shoulder and arm muscles, developing gross motor skills as well as fine tuning fine motor skills.

There is no need to limit a cat's normal activity during pregnancy.Cats are fairly good at determining what they can and can't do as a pregnancy progresses, and they should get normal exercise during this time to maintain muscle tone and good health.

Playdough Playdough is still a wonderful preschool fine motor activity as it continues to build strength in the little muscles in the hands.

Many of us do a number of activities throughout the average day that can contribute to muscle pain and tension, and it seems as though the neck is a regular trouble spot.

The Munchkin bounce about baby door bouncer is great fun for babies, watch your baby develop their leg muscles as they bounce around in the well - supported washable saddle for hours of entertaining activity.

Bouncing will be a favorite activity over the next couple of months, as your baby's leg muscles continue to develop while he masters rolling over, sitting, and crawling.

We can now work from the standpoint that activating AMPK, both medicinally as well as through physical activity, will enhance the effectiveness of insulin in the muscles of these people.»

The current increased the activity of normal beta waves, a kind of brain wave that is usually active during sustained muscle activities, such as holding a book.

Sometimes called the rest and digest system, the parasympathetic system conserves energy as it slows the heart rate, increases intestinal and gland activity, and relaxes sphincter muscles in the gastrointestinal tract.

Perchance to Dream In 1953 Nathaniel Kleitman of the University of Chicago and his graduate student Eugene Aserinsky discovered that slumber, which had been considered a single continuous period of downtime, contains recurring periods in which the sleeper's eyes move about, heartbeat and breathing become irregular, most voluntary muscles are paralyzed and brain activity (as measured by electroencephalography) is heightened.

Jones says the data gleaned from the three physical tests was as conclusive and as informative as the lengthy recordings of muscle activity.

In a study of 92 primary / elementary school aged children, Mr Coussens measured more than 30 different sleep parameters, such as muscle movements, breathing, eye activity and changes in the brain's processing.

Although the electrical activity of muscles, he explained, is normally considered as artifact noise that needs to be filtered out to attain clean EEG signals that are of interest, they are still informative about how facial muscles move, such as during a wink.

Germ - free mice still have the same amount of growth hormone as other mice, but the activity of IGF - 1 in their blood, liver, and muscles is lower, Leulier's team found.

«Under no circumstances should it be concluded from our work that consumption of marijuana can be a way to cure diabetes,» Prof. Dobrzyn warns and explains: «The concentration of glucose in the blood is determined by the balance between the activities of alpha and beta cells of the pancreas and insulin target tissues such as skeletal muscle and adipose tissue.

The development of wearable devices such as those monitoring a person's health or physical performance, like heart rate or muscle activity, is currently underway with some products already on the market.

Furthermore, the scientists proved the device's mechanical durability through repeated bending and stretching, exceeding 10,000 times, of a conductor attached on the forefinger; they also established its reliability as an electrode for electromyogram recordings when its readings of the electrical activity of muscles were comparable to those obtained through conventional gel electrodes.

Now, as part of a joint international project, a team of young researchers at the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at MedUni Vienna has succeeded in identifying the mechanisms the spinal cord uses to control this muscle activity.

In skeletal muscle, fast - twitch glycolytic fibers use glycogen as the main energy source for anaerobic metabolism, serving to sustain brief periods of high - intensity activity.

Neurologically, the primary features seen most often and most evidently in infants were alterations in motor activity, reflected in body tone, posture and motility or movement; severe hypertonia (abnormal muscle tension and contraction); abnormal neurobehaviors, such as poor or delayed response to visual stimuli, and excitability.

«Using statistical methods, we were able to identify a small number of basic patterns that underlie muscle activities in the legs and control periodic activation or deactivation of muscles to produce cyclical movements, such as those associated with walking.

Furthermore, the team revealed the evidence that the genes related to muscle strength as well as energy metabolism and sensory nerves, including olfactory receptor activity and visual perception, appeared to be undergoing rapid evolution in the tiger.

More than 30,000 Americans live with ALS, a condition that destroys motor neuron cells that control essential muscle activity, such as speaking, walking, breathing and swallowing.

Evaluation of 66 patients with JDM, recruited from the UK JDM Cohort and Biomarker Study and actively treated with anti-TNF agents, showed significant improvements in muscle and skin involvement, as well as in overall disease activity.

The contractile activity of smooth muscle cells in the walls of cerebral arteries determines the degree of constriction they experience (known as arterial tone) and thereby controls blood flow.

For those children where treatments have failed, prolonged disease activity has been shown to be associated with increased mortality and complications, such as scarring, pain due to trapped nerves, and shortening of the muscles causing joints to stay bent.

Electrodes embedded in the armband detect activity in a user's muscles as they contract or relax in the course of moving the hand and arm.

The peripheral nervous system of vertebrate animals includes three kinds of nerve cells: sensory neurons, which transmit impulses from sensory receptor structures to the brain; motor neurons, which innervate the striated, or skeletal, muscles, and autonomic neurons, which regulate the functional activity of the circulatory system, the organs, the glands and the smooth muscles (such as those of the intestine).

As a result, there has been considerable effort directed at developing strategies to modulate myostatin activity in clinical settings where enhancing muscle growth may be beneficial.

I have presented data showing that FLRG, like follistatin, can promote muscle growth when expressed as a transgene in skeletal muscle and that both of these molecules appear to act by blocking not only myostatin but also other ligands with similar activity to myostatin.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which strikes in 1 out of 5,000 newborn boys, results from a genetic deficiency in dystrophin, a protein involved in repairing muscle fibers affected by daily movement and activities such as exercise.

It is the flip - side of myostatin, as increased follistatin blocks the activity of myostatin: either increased follistatin or reduced myostatin produce similar outcomes in animal studies, with treated individuals demonstrating increased muscle mass.

Women recently postmenopause have similar or improved benefits from physical activity, in terms of muscle and blood vessel function, as those premenopause.

A drug known as SR9009, which is currently under development at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), increases the level of metabolic activity in skeletal muscles of mice.