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Muscle fitness can mean you have muscles that can lift heavier objects (strength) or muscles that will work longer before becoming exhausted (endurance). As you increase your muscle fitness, you will notice that you can carry heavy items longer before becoming too tired to continue. Having stronger muscles also protects your joints.

One part of muscle fitness is strengthening the muscles of your trunk. This strengthening is called core stabilization. It can help you have better posture and balance, and help protect you from injury.

Here are some benefits of strength training.

Increase in:

Muscular strength and endurance , lean body mass (muscles) , calories burned (metabolism), bone mineral density, overall stability and balance

Decrease in:

Blood sugar, body fat, psychological stress, body aches and fatigue

&nbsp;Muscles become stronger through a 3-step process:

1) Stress of the muscle 2) Recovery (rest) 3) Repeated stress

&nbsp;When you exercise against resistance, you stress your muscles slightly but not to the point of serious damage or injury. When you rest, your body rebuilds the muscles and the connective tissues between them (joints, tendons, and ligaments) in a way that prepares them for the next time they will be stressed. When you stress the same muscles again, the process is repeated, and the muscles gradually become stronger.

As you build muscle strength and endurance, you will notice that you can do more and more of each exercise. Some people will see a change in the way their muscles look, but others will not see a change for a long while. A more important sign of progress is how many repetitions and sets of an exercise you can do, or how much easier it feels to do them. This means your muscle fitness has improved.

To build and maintain muscles is about general health, to be able to do more, walk longer, run further, lift more without exhaustion.

When working your muscles, the bones also benefit, they get stronger as well.

As you can see, the body needs to work to become stronger, it benefits all parts of it.

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	<li>Read the files about functions of muscles and skeleton.</li>
	<li>Define a fitness plan (new or already in use) for the next month, and describe which large muscle groups and bones are strengthened through this. Also describe which parts of the body will need other exercises to strengthen these.</li>
	<li>Discuss your findings with at least two others, and decide if you want to revise anything.</li>
	<li>Send your descriptions to your tutor for possible comments.&nbsp;</li>
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<div>Files: 
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<div>F1. From Skin to Skeleton - Your Anatomy,&nbsp;from&nbsp;Humana People to People: Capacity Building 
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<div>F2. Skeleton and Muscles, from Tropisms, ISET/OWU, 2011</div>

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