Sports Medicine Without muscle training, the body falls silent

Muscles as the communication center: Why strength training is important for the body
Regular exercise can help to significantly reduce the risk of many diseases. In addition, physical fitness keeps the heart and brain young. In recent years, the strength training was particularly popular. It is not superficially about the optical results that are achieved. The effects on our organ system are much more important, explains an expert.
Regular exercise is healthy
Exercise is healthy: Regular exercise can, among other things, help to reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension or heart attack. In addition, according to experts, regular physical activity reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's and some types of cancer. More and more people are practicing their - often daily - training sessions that help them stay fit and healthy until old age. The strengthening of the muscles plays a very important role here. Already with a little more muscle power you can stay young and dynamic. An expert has interesting information on the subject.

Without muscle training the body falls silent. Image: zorgz - fotolia

Optical results during strength training are secondary
For years is reported about a booming fitness industry in Germany and other countries. While it used to be so-called "bodybuilders" who trained in the gym, today there are "normal" young and old people. However, the optical results that are achieved play only a pleasant supporting role in strength training. Much more important are the effects on our organ system. Marco Toigo on the Swiss Internet portal "20min.ch" explained. The expert deals with the mechanisms of muscle building and dismantling in the context of his university research work. In addition to his research activities, he is a lecturer in muscular and sports physiology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH).

Muscles as a communication center
As Toigo explains, muscles perform many vital functions that are critical to our health. For example, they also function as the communication center in our body. In addition to muscle power itself, chemical factors (so-called myokines) are among the means of communication. These hormone-like messengers are released during the production of muscle by the muscle of this and get through the bloodstream to other target organs, where they unfold their effect. According to Toigo, muscles communicate with the brain, liver, pancreas, adipose tissue, and bones, among others. The muscle is therefore a gland which sends different signals to other body organs as a function of their stress, which in turn depend on these muscle signals to maintain their natural function.

Supplementary muscle training essential for your health
As it says on "20min.ch" on, not only the muscles, but also virtually all organ systems in the body are supplied with life-vital signals by the training. According to the expert, among other things, this is the causal explanation of why muscle training is healthy and why muscle atrophy can make you sick in the long run. The Internet portal writes that it becomes clear from these considerations that strength training as a supplement to the many other forms of exercise and sport is fundamental to our health. (Ad)