Boost your body up!

   There are a lot of methods to stimulate body’s general metabolism, and reasonable use of them can help you to reach specific goals. We want to offer you a few simple ways of stimulating the general anabolic processes in your body. All of them listed here take no special equipment and can be done at home. Please note that anabolism is important not only for those people who want to increase muscle mass, but for everyone who is involved  in training, including  training for a fat loss, because it is the key for recovering as well, which will lead you to improved sport results and life quality in general.

Here they are:

   Running. Runningis one of the strongest anabolism stimulants. During the running the level of adrenaline goes up which in turn causes the increased secretion of somatotropic hormone. Synthesis of cAMP (Cyclic adenosine monophosphate) increases also, this result in increased cell sensitivity to insulin and somatotropine.

   At the same time, running depletes blood sugar storage, and body starts to produce more growth [somatotropic] hormone. Regular running lowers the level of thyroid hormones, which slows protein catabolism and makes your body use energy more economically. As a result, running increases anabolic and recovery rates, being a good non-specific general health-improving remedy. You need to be careful when increasing your training load, otherwise running too long may result in suppressing immune system.

   Short-term fasting. Short-term fasting – no longer than 24 hours – stimulates production of somatotropic hormone, and it’s level stays high for a while even after starvation has finished. The next day body recovers all weight loss occurred during the fasting period, and the day after super-compensates it. It is recommended to start first day of eating (recovering day) with low-protein food to prevent over-stimulation of nervous system which can cause insomnia. Interesting fact: 24 hours of fasting were included into 7-10 day training cycle in Soviet weight lifting Olympic team. Bodybuilders are familiar with the similar effect as well, gaining more mass straight after a competition, when the strictest of dieting is over.

   Short-term cold stress. Adaptation to cold stress helps to increase protein synthesis and strength. It tones up the parasympathetic nervous system with increased synthesis of acetylcholine. At the same time adrenaline and noradrenalin level of thyroid hormones decreases. All of these factors give a boost to anabolic processes.  

   Periodicity plays a key role in adaptation to cold stress training. It is very important to do it no more than once a day. The duration of exposure to cold must be strictly limited as well and last from a few seconds up to 3 minutes. Long tern even moderate cold stress affects body metabolism negatively. Cold shower would  be probably the easiest way to do it.

   Interrupted hypoxia. It is well known, that short impact of moderate hypoxia can be used for organism’s adaptive reserve accretion, different kinds of diseases healing and prevention. Lowered oxygen volume in breathed air can be used in professional sport training also. Motor activities in the conditions of interval hypoxia are the new non-medicamentous method of health-improvement and diseases prophylaxis in sport and clinical medicines.

 Practical using of moderate hypoxia is possible not only with the specially constructed equipment. One of the simplest exercise is holding your breathing as long as possible 5 times with 1-3 minutes break in between and repeat exercise 3 times a day. Moderate hypoxia using in sport training allows gaining high results in shortened terms.