POWER WORKOUT! Cellular Power

The Power of the Cell

This is part three of my how to “power workout from beginner to advanced” series. This is an overview of the things that happen within a cell that are important when it comes to exercise. It’s not going to cover everything but just the things that are of concern to what I’m writing.

Now for ATP and how Vitamin B3 in the form of Nicotinic Acid (NOT Nicotinimide) and CoQ10):

A Word About Steroids

I don’t believe in them and have never used any. Science has proven that the body reacts to steroids much as it does toward a drug that artificially unbalances it, but causing the body to stop producing the thing that’s introduced to it artificially and making it imbalanced. Testosterone contains both anabolic and systolic steroids. Simply put, systolic steroids make the body hairy, anabolic steroids make the muscles grow stronger and also increase their aggression (there are other effects as well).  When someone suddenly stops taking anabolic steroids their hormone levels literally go flat line – like mowing a lawn – and go straight across. Normal steroid levels have peaks and valleys. It takes several months for levels to repair, and they may not go back to normal, but always remain lower than before fooling around with “the juice”.

Different Types of Cells

Muscles, tendons, heart, liver, kidney, nerve… all working together to produce the highest efficiency and best rate of speed, power and endurance. That’s why each day’s workout will be different and your speed or number of miles or total repetitions aren’t so important. If 2 or 3 of your systems aren’t up to par, if your diet hasn’t fully replenished every nutrient to optimum levels, if any number of things are wrong you’re not going to be at 100% – and nobody is every single day.

You have fast twitch “power” muscle cells and slow twitch “endurance” muscle cells within the same muscle. Each of us have different percentages of each within our own bodies various muscles, and we vary from our friends and family and strangers percentages of these cells – and total number of these cells as well!

Lactic Acid Tires Out Your Cells – Mitochondria

The mitochondria are the workhorses of the cell. Each cell has a mitochondria to bring oxygen from the cell membrane to the cell nucleus, and to ferry lactic acid (cellular waste) and carbon dioxide back to the cell membrane to be removed into the blood. The more and longer you work out, the greater the number of mitochondria produced by the working cells up to a limit of three per cell. This takes some time to occur. Olympic level athletes commonly have 3 mitochondria per cell.

This site isn’t going to go into Royal Jelly from bees helping you to increase your endurance running 20 miles a day (it will) or what Dr Oz explains about CoQ10

Page in Progress – More on Cellular Power at the chemical level – stay tuned!

Nex Section: Post Workout Muscle Recovery Time