Muscles can strengthen bones and joints. Muscle tension is the key factor to protect joint stability. Lack of muscle strength will increase the risk of joint deformation, joint degeneration, lumbar disc herniation or prolapse. Chronic diseases and joint aging are directly related to insufficient muscle strength.
Compared with fat, muscle has a higher metabolic rate. Maintaining certain muscles can promote metabolism and reduce the risk of chronic diseases related to metabolic disorders, such as atherosclerosis, dyslipidemia and diabetes. Similarly, people with sufficient muscle content will age more slowly and younger than those with insufficient muscle at the same age.
Muscle is the target organ of most endocrine hormones, which can improve the effect of hormones. This also includes various sex hormones. Studies have shown that strengthening the muscles in the body can improve sexual ability. In my opinion, people often say that "kidney deficiency" is closely related to muscle deficiency in the body.
In a word, the muscle content in the body has important health significance. When people pay attention to reducing fat, don't forget to take measures to increase the muscle content in the body.
The production of muscles in the body follows the principle of "use is life, and use is retreat". In other words, muscles are all exercised. If you don't exercise, eating any food or health care products will not increase muscle content out of thin air. The so-called exercise here mainly refers to "exertion". Regardless of exercise (such as push-ups, running, swimming, pulling equipment, dumbbells, etc. Daily activities (such as moving things, going upstairs, climbing mountains, etc.). ), even housework (such as cleaning the floor, washing clothes by hand, holding children, etc. ), as long as you need to exert yourself during the activity, it will help to increase muscle content or muscle strength. On the contrary, activities that do not require exertion, such as walking and yoga, do not stimulate muscle production or increase strength.
So, how can we know whether the muscle content or strength in our body is enough? The simple way to judge is whether you can do push-ups for 20~30 times in a row (if you can't, it means that the upper limb muscles are unqualified); Can you do 20~30 sit-ups continuously (if not, it means that the trunk muscles are unqualified); Can you do 40 steps in a row soon (if not, it means that the lower limb muscles are unqualified-except for heart disease). The above judgment method is quoted from Zhao Zhixin's book "It is better to seek medical treatment than to exercise".
A more accurate way to measure whether muscle strength is enough is to measure it with a grip. Although the grip is only held by hand, it can reflect the muscle strength of the whole body.