Addressing the One Critical Factor That Makes ALL the Difference for Enhanced Strength Training – Part 1!
I just recently wrote a very long article on strength training for another website and I thought I would share it with you. Why? Because it has a great deal to do with human performance since it centers on cardiovascular performance.
Whether you are a competitive athlete or just living and breathing, your human performance and how well you function is highly dependent upon the one critical factor most people never pay attention to. That critical factor is the health of your endothelial cells and their ability to properly produce nitric oxide.
While this article was written to help athletes improve their strength training, performance, and recovery it also applies to those whose only exercise is pushing the buttons on their remote control. Here is the first part of this groundbreaking article on strength training:
“The field of strength training is both very broad and extremely dynamic. Broad because of the types of activities athletes engage in to improve their strength and conditioning. These activities could include general strength and conditioning programs for overall fitness to very unique and specific programs tailored to their particular sport. It could include resistance training, interval training, speed and agility training, plyometrics, injury prevention, and a wide range of other worthwhile methods to achieve the goal of increased muscular strength and endurance.
The area of strength training is also extremely dynamic because science continues to unlock the complex association between biochemistry, nutrition, physiology, anatomy, and other scientific disciplines that can help to enhance athletic performance through improved strength training. Research and science that can be used to enhance general health and physical fitness as well as enhanced physical performance during athletic events.
‘Whether you are a professional athlete or just a fitness enthusiast, the following information about Strength Training will be eye opening!’
That’s a bold statement but if you continue to read the rest of this article you will see an area of anatomy, biochemistry, and nutrition seldom addressed in the textbooks written on strength training. Yet these three components have Nobel Prize winning science and cutting edge vascular research that hasn’t yet been properly applied to strength training. Whether you’re a recreational athlete or a professional athlete, this sound scientific information has resulted in clinical proof and application for improved cardiovascular health. It now has the potential to take your strength training program to a whole new level.
One Common Element Found in Strength Training, Performance, and Recovery!
While there are a wide variety of training programs and techniques to prepare you and your body for your athletic performance, when you break it all down there are just 3 components to improved strength training. These components are:
Training
Performance
Recovery
However, when you look at these 3 components, central to everything is your cardiovascular system. While your heart is vitally important to this system it’s not the organ that will make the ultimate difference. That organ is the endothelium that lines all of your cardiovascular system including your heart!
Most people in strength training have never even heard of this organ. One of the best books on strength training is Conditioning for Strength and Human Performance by T. Jeff Chandler and Lee E. Brown. In 476 pages of excellent information, with a specific chapter on “The Cardiorespiratory System”, there was not one mention of this organ. Even the Index has no listing for the endothelium.
Yet this organ and the critical functions that it performs are central to the health of your cardiovascular system. It is the key component in your body’s ability to deliver needed oxygen and nutrients to fuel your muscles as well as effectively remove waste products that can limit your strength training workout and overall results.
The rest of this article will help show you how important this little known, but critically important organ is to strength training. It all centers on the endothelium’s ability to properly produce a simple molecule called nitric oxide and all the impact nitric oxide can have on training, performance, and recovery.”
Intrigued? I hope so!
If you’re an athlete of any kind I’m going to help you understand how you can take your strength training program to a whole new level. In Part 2 I’ll explain some sports science and why you need to pay attention to the health of your endothelial cells and their ability to properly produce nitric oxide.
Together we can work to save a million lives!
Dan Hammer
Dan Hammer has a background in biology, chemistry, and exercise physiology. He used to run one of the largest health club operations in the Chicagoland area and has been helping people with their wellness issues for more than 25 years.
