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Our training will genuinely strengthen and condition all internal tissue, resulting in the body having the characteristics of a very strong elastic band. This is essential in a sport where the athlete needs to deliver powerful strokes and movements at high speeds, react and change direction in split seconds and sustain a high level of intensity over a number of hours of competition. While generating increased power and speed, these exercises also condition the body to allow complete power transfer without injury risk.
Historically, the exercises of Yang Mian™ are all based upon an understanding of the body and are specific in dealing with:
1. The Respiratory System
2. The Cardiovascular System
3. The Muscular System
4. Endurance and Fatigue
5. Sysnergistic Co-ordination for Maximum Performance.
During the several weeks of exercise beginning with 60 minutes a day, endurance can be increased by greater than 30% with similar improvements in the strength of the muscles involved.
Weight lifting, on the other hand, produces muscle hypertrophy. This involves an increase in the number of contractile elements in each muscle cell so that the cells of the muscles enlarge. However the vascularity of the muscles does not increase as much as the metabolising mass. Therefore, though strong, the muscles are not as efficient in sustaining aerobic exercise as they could become.
Yang Mian™ enables work to be carried on for much longer periods and can achieve a steady state at higher levels of muscular activity. Larger amounts of oxygen are therefore utilised. All of this is done at a much lower heart rate. Increased vascularity of muscles permits a greater blood flow through them. Increased venous return produces a greater perfusion of the lungs. Therefore less energy is expended in all activities.
Because Yang Mian™ contributes to increased cardiac output, the lungs are fully and evenly perfused with blood permitting extremely efficient gas exchange hence the very positive effects on ventilation and perfusion.
As the organs most directly involved in exercise, muscles experience the greatest changes. Oxygen consumption can shoot up many times the requirement at rest. Blood flow is increased to achieve this.
The relaxed but vigorous circular movement developed by the Yang Mian™ System enhances greater hydrostatic pressure in the circulatory system of the involved limbs. This causes increased activity in the continuous motion of random molecular pathways. Probability favours the movement of molecules from regions where they are most concentrated to regions where they are less concentrated. The velocity of the molecules depends upon their temperature and their mass. The higher the temperature the greater the thermal energy and the faster the molecules move. This, in turn, causes ions and small molecules of blood plasma to leave the blood at the capillary sites and enter the tissues oxygenating the cells.
Yang Mian™ movements allow the muscle fibres to relax which increases the diameter of the blood vessels, and effect known as vasodilation. Hence, by consciously relaxing any movement until the last possible instant increased blood and oxygen availability is facilitated.
During exercise when skeletal muscle is rapidly metabolising, the blood
to the muscles must be increased therefore relaxation until the last moment
maximises circulation. The body's circulation requirements:
A muscle at rest requires 1200 ml/minute of blood flow
A muscle during strenuous exercise requires 12500 ml/minute blood flow
The Yang Mian™ use of relaxed yet vigorous circular movement increases the power of the hands and forearms by providing a stronger concentration of oxygen to create greater cellular energy production. Capillaries serve every cell within the body so each cell accomplishes energy individually. The real respiratory process takes place in the cells. The lungs merely make oxygen available to the body.
The actual exchange between the blood and the cells takes place within the capillaries. Blood is returned to the heart through the veins. As blood flows through the capillaries some of its liquid component called plasma is forced out into the tissues through the permeable walls of these tiny blood vessels (a process of hydrostatic pressure). Once it leaves the blood this fluid is known as interstitial fluid. It keeps the cells moist and serves as the medium in which materials are delivered to the cells.
The path of the process is as follows:
extra interstitial fluid > lymph vessels > lymph > filtered through
lymph nodes > eventually returned to the blood (washed blood components).
This provides cleaner blood by lymph node washing and returning to the vascular system. The lymph nodes also produce cells needed for the bodies' defence against invading microorganisms. By employing Yang Mian™'s vigorous circular movements, you are exposing more of the plasma to these cells.
The techniques are all economical, effective and multi-functionary. Although the approach is simple it brings about quite complex and far-reaching achievements.
The Yang Mian™ exercises:
1. Can be done alone
2. Require no equipment
3. Require no gymnasiums
4. Improve explosive momentum
5. Reduce risks of injury
6. Increase well being.
(Note: the body is trained to use oxygen correctly whilst moving. This increases the body's potential output of energy.)
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