OnFitness Magazine - September/October 2014 - 18

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SCIENCE
Sweat is
fat crying...

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DEPARTMENT OF

WEIGHTS &
MEASURES

AB SLIP-UPS: You're eating the wrong foods. Sensible eating
is important for ﬂat abs. You could do a thousand crunches a day,
but if you're overeating, your toned abs will be hidden under fat.
So eat fewer reﬁned carbohydrates, use portion control and work
on cutting out the alcohol and added sugars. Instead, ﬁll up on
lean protein like ﬁsh, poultry, legumes, low fat dairy, lean meats,
vegetables and fruits.

BUT IT ALSO PROVIDES BENEFITS.
Fat grip
attachment

Gluing back
together
damaged
organs?
Nanoparticles in a
water solution -
applied directly to
injured living tissue to
"glue" it back together
- yes, that's what Ludwik Leibler and his
team are developing.
So far it's worked on
rats. It closes deep
wounds after being
applied, within seconds. The "glue" has
also repaired organs
that were troublesome
to suture. The solution
can also be attached to
a beating heart, which
means it can potentially deliver drugs.
The solution is applied
to a surface. The
nanoparticles bind to
the tissue's molecular
network. Connections
form between the
solution and the tissue. Adhesion takes
place.
This is a major breakthrough and can pave
the way for emergency
room doctors using a
brush to stroke on the
solution to wounds,
closing them within
seconds, leaving an
almost invisible scar.
In one of the rat experiments, a deep gash in
a liver was closed by
the "glue," stopping
the bleeding, without
any adverse effects.

Fat grip attachments ﬁt virtually all barbells, dumbbells, chin-up bars and cable attachments in seconds,
making the bar a lot thicker. Most attachments are made of solid rubber.

Fat in your
workout
A FAT BAR is a weight lifting bar

that's thicker than the standard bar
- noticeably bigger in diameter. If
your gym actually has one of these
smart training tools, check it out.
If your gym doesn't have a fat bar,
you can buy one online.
Because the diameter of the
bar is greater, this compromises
the trainee's grip. As a result, the
trainee is forced to grip harder
and use the gripping muscles
more forcefully.
It's easy to understand. Next
time you pick a barbell off the

ﬂoor, imagine that the bar is too
thick for you to get your ﬁngers
all the way around it. This
makes it harder to handle.
Imagine training regularly
with this increased diameter -
this not-so-efﬁcient handhold. It
will force the adaptation of a
stronger grip, stronger forearms.
Imagine doing a clean and
snatch with a fatter bar. Or deadlifts or bent-over rows.
If one's forearms, wrists and
hands are stronger, they'll be
able to perform pulling motions
with standard barbells using
heavier loads. In fact, if you normally do six sets of deadlifts in a
session, you only need to do two

or three with a fat bar or attachable grips, to reap beneﬁts.
Fat bar training includes
pushing motions. The fat bar
offers rewards for pushing exercises as well, such as the bench
press and overhead press.
An ideal situation is if the
trainee has a partner for spotting, especially with the bench
press. Because the grip is compromised, it's easier for the
trainee to "drop" the barbell
when going for heaviest loads
and low reps.
One need not spend too
much time pushing with a fat
bar, however. One or two sets
for each exercise will do.

Medical and health experts
simply recommend that overweight people get more exercise
and eat a lot less junk food.

Smaller portions of healthier
food can be a lot cheaper than
gigantic amounts of junk food.
Fast walking, running up
and down staircases, even pedaling a used stationary bike purchased off of eBay, are all very
cheap approaches to exercise.
People can do pushups and
other bodyweight exercises like
squat jumps without paying a
personal trainer or for a gym
membership.
A set of tension bands can be
purchased online for less than
the cheapest carton of brandname cigarettes.

Why is this?
A REPORT IN A RECENT American Journal of Preventive Medicine says that poorer individuals
in all age brackets are less likely
to follow smart strategies for
weight loss when compared to
people with more money.
Before you assume that the
obvious explanation is that
poorer people cannot afford a
personal trainer or to have packaged "diet" foods delivered to
their door, these weight loss tactics aren't what's recommended
by the medical establishment.

BUILDING YOUR BACK

Bench twist
Lie face-down on an exercise bench with your torso hanging off one end, your
hips touching the top edge of the bench so you can easily bend at the waist.
Keeping your body perfectly straight, extend arms out as if you were ﬂying, then
slowly turn your torso to the left, pause, feel the stretch, then slowly turn it to
the right. Alternative method: instead of extending your arms outwards, hold a
weight plate in crossed hands tight against your chest.

The ﬁrst one is that it releases
excess heat. Sweat is a response to
regulate temperature and prevent
overheating of your body. The
body is cooled when sweat evaporates from the skin.
Sweating also rids the body of
toxins. Though the health research
community can't agree on whether
or not saunas actually help detoxify the body, what they do seem to
agree on is that this practice is safe,
as long as you replenish the lost
ﬂuids.
Sweating opens the skin's pores
- as anyone who's ever had a professional facial extraction treatment knows. Pores become
unclogged when they get opened
up. But you don't want to allow
sweat to remain on the skin; it
needs to be cleaned off.

It has long
been an axiom
that the little
things are
inﬁnitely
the most
important.

Suicide
grip

Grip force
when bench
pressing
SQUEEZE THE BAR GOOD AND
HARD. Don't let it just rest in

your palms. Don't try funky
"suicide grips," thinking you
can lift more this way. Get a
solid, tight grip around the
bar. Just because you're not
pulling resistance towards
you doesn't mean you
shouldn't use a forceful grip.

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