The Internet has long been haunted by a photograph of the sinewy legs of Pavel Polyansky, a professional cyclist and participant in the 2017 Tour de France, who rode almost 3,000 kilometers over 16 stages of the competition.
Source: menshealth.com
Well, with a cyclist, everything is clear: riding a bicycle an incredible distance in a short time - it’s not just your veins that pop out. But this happens quite often among ordinary people. What is the reason? Does this mean that a person is strong?
The answer to the question was kindly given to us by Doug McGuff, author of the book “ Body By Science“. And he didn’t just give an answer, but put everything on the shelves.
Where do swollen veins come from?
Doug explains it this way:
Arteries are vessels that go from the heart directly to the muscles and organs. We consider only the muscles. During exercise, they need oxygen and beneficial nutrients. That is why they are located very close to the muscle fibers, hidden between them. All substances from the arteries are immediately absorbed by the working muscles.
Veins are vessels that excrete “ devastated“blood from the muscles to the heart. Therefore, their muscles supposedly push out“ out. The blood is pumped out quickly to capture the new enriched portion. This creates high pressure in the veins, due to which they are not only closer to the surface, but also swell.
Source: menshealth.com
So is the one with sinewy arms strong?
Doug explains the presence of veins in the arms and throughout the body due to the tiny fat content in the human body. Like, he’s thin, his fat layer is negligible, and all these veins are visible. But another factor plays an important role in this - active lifestyle of a person.
The more sports, the more swollen the veins will be. Moreover, this is possible even in a state of complete calm, since for a long time after training the body can be in a state of actively burning calories and pumping muscles with blood for the purpose of their growth and “ healing microtraumas“, so necessary for muscle growth.
Source: aliexpress.com
Why are the veins swollen in those who do not exercise?
The Internet has long been haunted by a photograph of the sinewy legs of Pavel Polyansky, a professional cyclist and participant in the 2017 Tour de France, who rode almost 3,000 kilometers over 16 stages of the competition.
Source: menshealth.com
Well, with a cyclist, everything is clear: riding a bicycle an incredible distance in a short time - it’s not just your veins that pop out. But this happens quite often among ordinary people. What is the reason? Does this mean that a person is strong?
The answer to the question was kindly given to us by Doug McGuff, author of the book “ Body By Science“. And he didn’t just give an answer, but put everything on the shelves.
Where do swollen veins come from?
Doug explains it this way:
Arteries are vessels that go from the heart directly to the muscles and organs. We consider only the muscles. During exercise, they need oxygen and beneficial nutrients. That is why they are located very close to the muscle fibers, hidden between them. All substances from the arteries are immediately absorbed by the working muscles.
Veins are vessels that excrete “ devastated“blood from the muscles to the heart. Therefore, their muscles supposedly push out“ out. The blood is pumped out quickly to capture the new enriched portion. This creates high pressure in the veins, due to which they are not only closer to the surface, but also swell.
Source: menshealth.com
So is the one with sinewy arms strong?
Doug explains the presence of veins in the arms and throughout the body due to the tiny fat content in the human body. Like, he’s thin, his fat layer is negligible, and all these veins are visible. But another factor plays an important role in this - active lifestyle of a person.
The more sports, the more swollen the veins will be. Moreover, this is possible even in a state of complete calm, since for a long time after training the body can be in a state of actively burning calories and pumping muscles with blood for the purpose of their growth and “ healing microtraumas“, so necessary for muscle growth.
Source: aliexpress.com
Why are the veins swollen in those who do not exercise?
Of course, I’m sorry that a lot has been written, but it’s clearer this way (the gist)
How to gain powerful and light muscles
An acrobat must be very strong and, at the same time, very light. The truth is simple and clear. But it seems to carry a contradiction: to be strong you need big muscles, and big muscles weigh a lot... Worse than that: in order to pump up big muscles, you need to eat a lot, and at the same time you also grow fat, with which you need to somehow parallel fight.
This is where some people’s definition of “wiry” comes to mind. This one doesn't have huge muscles, but has amazing strength. He doesn't have to be thin, but he does have to be as strong as possible with minimal weight.
If anyone is interested in how to gain light, but powerful (and plus: fast and flexible) muscles, read on...
Muscle
Any muscle in our body is a bundle of fibers (consisting of elongated cells capable of contraction). Without delving into cytology, we realize that a bundle of hundreds of fibers can be equal in efficiency to a bundle of twenty fibers. How? It’s very simple: in a well-regulated bundle of twenty fibers, they all contract simultaneously and equally strongly, whereas in a bundle of hundreds, the fibers can contract unevenly, with different strengths, some dead, some fat... they rather interfere with each other than work together. This means that we need synchronized muscles free of dirt and fat. This time.
The muscle is attached to the bone by a tendon. I don’t know the details, but there is a mechanism that limits the action of the muscle if the tendon is overloaded. Of course, this mechanism does not always work, but in real life cases of tendon separation from the bone are very rare. More often than not, muscles tear due to sudden overloads. These are two... I don’t know any reliable ways to strengthen tendons, but I’ll tell you the main considerations.
The Miracle of Fasting
Our mothers, and especially our grandmothers, constantly repeat: “We must eat, we must eat...” And we eat. In those countries where people can read this text, there is no shortage of food. Blind from selfless love for their children, mothers and grandmothers raise hundred-kilogram boys and girls, putting them first on an unhealthy diet, and then on even more unhealthy treatment with pills.
You can’t be so rude about the nutrition process. In addition to external nutrition, the body also has mechanisms for internal energy consumption.
As soon as food stops coming in from the outside (through the mouth), the body begins to slowly begin consuming reserves. He, of course, doesn’t like it, so he feels hungry. Indeed, every cell in our body is constantly “chewing” something and getting rid of “digestive” products. But this does not mean that we should behave like single-celled organisms.
A complex organism begins to “search” inside itself for some kind of snack... It is an extremely smart machine, so it will never devour vital organs and substances.
First of all, fats (as a natural reserve) and all kinds of dirt are burned. Toxins, snot, tumors, inflamed and cancer cells - this is what falls under the radar of a hungry body in the first place. Therefore, fasting heals. Maybe for some it will be a revelation, but healing is cleansing.
Then the muscles will be devoured. Firstly, unnecessary muscles, clogged with fat, waste and half-dead fibers. Only then will high-quality, working muscles be eaten.
Then - some internal organs: liver, kidneys, digestive system (it’s not needed anyway, because the internal consumption of “food” is the work of tissues, blood and lymph, and not the stomach and intestines).
Organs such as the heart, nervous system, and brain are inviolable. Even if a person dies from prolonged starvation, his heart and brain lose only a few percent in weight...
All these mechanisms are launched, of course, not in turn, as written, but almost all at the same time. But at different stages of fasting (in time) they prevail approximately in the order described.
I will only add that normally working muscles in an averagely developed person will begin to “fade away” only after two weeks of fasting.
How to get stronger from fasting
I repeat once again that our body is not a fool, however. Somehow he understands that the heart and brain are something that cannot be gobbled up, because they are necessary for life itself. He also does not start working on healthy muscles right away. And in general, he will turn to those who work last.
Everyone, after all, remembers that the strongest, most agile and healthy in “our yard” were half-starved active hooligans, and not well-fed mother’s boys. So, why not introduce this practice into your training?
Almost every week I set aside one day to fast. I only drink clean water. And this day coincides with the training day. And in this workout I push my body to the maximum.
What's happening. Since you are not allowed to eat outside, and the muscles work like crazy, the internal nutrition mechanisms turn on very quickly and very efficiently. If in the passive mode of hunger the body switches to internal batteries only after two or three days, then in the active mode this happens much faster. Moreover, when the body is already accustomed to the fact that such a shake-up happens once a week. But who knows: maybe this stupid man kills a mammoth once a week, and then runs away from the wolf pack with a piece of meat on his shoulders? And while he is running, his “running” muscles must be in good shape, otherwise - death.
I believe that the body “thinks” in approximately these categories...
Fasting has made a huge difference to my body over the past few months. This can be seen both externally and in the results.
In addition and at the same time:
During a hunger strike it is easier to jump;
During a hunger strike, flexibility objectively improves;
During a hunger strike, clarity of thinking objectively improves.
After you have exhausted yourself with fasted training, external food will go exactly to those muscles that worked during the fast. Otherwise, next time it will be hard again, and the body doesn’t like that.
Even if you go too far with active hunger, that is, to the point of devouring working muscles, then after you end the hunger strike, these muscles will be supplied with resources with a serious reserve. (In my first year, I spent a whole week starving to cure a terrible runny nose and at the same time went to physical education, where we ran 8 kilometers. And nothing. I just became even better at running...)
The conclusion is this: “hungry training” sharpens the body’s “attention” to hard-working muscles. It becomes cleaner, more optimal in composition and action, and connects to high-speed resource supply channels.
What stops you from starving?
I think the idea is clear, and many will immediately turn to this simple method to become stronger, healthier and, in general, more cheerful. But I would ask you to read on, because there are two very important points.
The first moment is entering the hunger strike. When a person is over twenty, it happens that refusing to eat in the middle of the day leads to dizziness, headaches, unpleasant sounds and sensations in the intestines. And the person decides: “No, I feel bad from starvation... I’d rather eat...” And mushrooms and toxins are to blame for this. Do you agree to obey the command of mushrooms and waste?
In search of internal resources, the body begins to flush out toxins from all crevices. And slag is dirt and all kinds of toxic muck. This nasty stuff gets into the blood, reaches the brain, and then we begin to feel the same thing that we feel when we smoke for the first time, drink vodka or snort acetone in a painted entrance: it hurts or feels dizzy, nauseous... in general, it’s flattening. So, if you are flattened, then it is better not to do acrobatics - you will get better. But you shouldn’t give up on hunger either. It’s still better to get rid of the dirt. There are two options: either go to bed or go for a walk in the fresh air. Next week fast again for a day. After a few sessions, the flattening will stop, and your health will noticeably improve.
Well, mushrooms in the intestines are a common occurrence. They live among waste, feed on waste and require food. If, during fasting, the intestines become bad, it means that the mushrooms also began to starve, and the body began to devour them. With all the nonsense about “bloat” and “well, how can you not eat?” It's not related.
How to break a hunger strike
And this is the second important point...
Firstly, fasting must be fasting: a small bun eaten in the middle of the day (which, of course, no one will notice) will be doused in the stomach with an excessive amount of digestive juices, but will not be digested itself (since it is a carbohydrate), and even the process of ulceration will accelerate. If you are starving, fast cleanly; if you eat, eat fully.
Secondly, during hunger you can drink. Drink only clean water, not some Coca-Cola.
Thirdly, immediately after fasting, you should under no circumstances overeat! This is harmful and even dangerous. First, drink more water (a couple of glasses). Then we eat some sour fruit (apple, orange) and/or drink kefir (yogurt). Crush a handful of nuts. In principle, we can finish it. If it’s not enough, we continue with everyday food, but in half portions.
It's simple, but it's very important to follow.
In general, this is the method of nutrition that is best suited for a full life, if you need it...
results
Of course, I'm not some certified nutritionist or award-winning acrobats trainer. But my personal experience, the experience of family and friends, a lot of books I’ve read, and just common sense - force me to tell everyone who can read about the described technique.
Jumping ability and strength increase. Health is getting better. Speed, stretching, mental clarity... - the results are immediate. Try a fasted workout on Saturday and you'll feel like superman on Tuesday - I promise ;).
P.S.: I remember I also wanted to say something about tendons... The thought is this: tendons develop well when they work almost to the limit of their capabilities. If you lift a small dumbbell in a rocking chair, you can build up a large, beautiful, enduring muscle. But this will not make the tendon particularly strong, because there is almost no load on it. And if you jerk yourself on the horizontal bar as sharply as possible, you will pump up small but fierce biceps with the strongest tendons. And these tendons will be as strong as necessary to withstand the maximum jerk of these biceps.
That is, whatever one may say, the body will increase the resource of the tendon only as long as it seems to it that the tendon is working at its limit. The further the tendon's strength limit, the slower it strengthens.
WIRY
WIRY
WIRY, sinewy, sinewy; sinewy, sinewy, sinewy.
1. With a large number of hard veins and tendons. You can't chew the stringy meat right away.
2. Lean, with prominent, protruding veins. “Thousands of sinewy, black, gnarled, calloused hands.” D.Bedny. Wiry neck.
Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary. D.N. Ushakov. 1935-1940.
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See what "wiry" is in other dictionaries:
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- (foreign) persistent in the pursuit of a goal (a hint of strong, hardy veins when stretching them). Wed. Bryntsev considered Rypin one of the “wiry” ones, that is, one of the people who would certainly achieve their goal and be in position. Boborykin. From the new ones. 3, 5… Michelson's Large Explanatory and Phraseological Dictionary (original spelling)
WINNY, oh, oh; ist. 1. Abundant with veins and tendons. Stringy meat. 2. Lean and with protruding veins. J. old man. Veiny hands. | noun wiry, and, female Ozhegov's explanatory dictionary. S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova. 1949 1992 … Ozhegov's Explanatory Dictionary
wiry- I live/leafy see vein I II lived/steep aya, oh; leaf, a, o. see also wiry 1) with noticeably protruding veins I 1) Thick arms. Neck. 2) Lean, lean... Dictionary of many expressions
- (foreign) persistent in the pursuit of a goal (a hint of strong, hardy veins when pulling them out) Cf. Bryntsev considered Rypin to be one of the sinewy ones, i.e. from persons who will certainly achieve their goal and will be in position. Boborykin. From the new ones. 3, 5… Michelson's Large Explanatory and Phraseological Dictionary
Adj. 1. ratio with noun vein I 2., connected to it 2. Having noticeably protruding veins [vein I 2.]. 3. Having a lot of veins I 2., tendons (about meat). 4. transfer Lean, muscular. 5. transfer decomposition Strong, tough, resilient... Modern explanatory dictionary of the Russian language by Efremova
Wiry, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy, sinewy,... ... Word forms
wiry- muddy... Russian spelling dictionary
wiry - … Spelling dictionary of the Russian language
Aya, oh; leaf, a, o. 1. With noticeably protruding veins (1.Zh.; 1 digit). Those hands. Neck. 2. Lean, lean. Tall old man. He looks lean and wiry. 3. Unlock Strong, tough, resilient. J., how easy it is to lift weights! What are you... encyclopedic Dictionary
Books
- Earthly Wanderer, Vladimir Chernobaev. Vladimir Chernobaev has not been working in literature for very long. Less than ten years. But, like a taciturn, wiry and stubborn Russian plowman, he raised a noticeable piece of arable land, atom and virgin soil. Fate…
- How Black Bill Hid, O. Henry. One of the most famous humorists in world literature, O. Henry created a unique panorama of American life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, conveying contrasts and paradoxes in grotesque situations...