In the Japanese prewar education, there were only two body postures, attention and ease. Having a good posture in public was strictly trained at home and school from a little child, as bad posture was hated as the worst habit. For example, traditional sports with the word “do (or path)” like kendo or judo require you a good posture. Dance, drum, and geisha manners also teach good posture as well as greeting. Thus, Japanese people used to have high basal metabolism.
We can increase muscle anytime by paying attention to our posture, even when we are in a train or sitting on a chair. Exercises without oxygen are called muscle training. Muscle training, like short-term dumbbell training, only raises your pulse to around 120 and makes your heart pounding a little. It also does not last any more than 20 minutes. However, the profit of this muscle training is that it keeps sending a signal to increase muscle for 2 or 3 days after training, even though energy consumption during the training is not very large. Lactic acid, accumulated in the muscles used in the anaerobic exercise, stimulates the brain and tells it to increase muscle since you don’t have enough muscle. Then, growth hormone is secreted to increase muscle, which requires a lot of energy in the process. Since to synthesize muscle needs a lot of extra energy, it burns fat well. Anaerobic exercise is also a hard term to understand. Anaerobic exercise is an exercise that we do without oxygen, in the situation that our body does not have any oxygen by exhaling. It includes lifting dumbbells or squatting. If you burden the muscle in this situation for 5 seconds, the muscle will have enough lactic acid.
As having lactic acid is important for a muscle to grow, you can tell if your muscle has lactic acid by feeling muscle pain. If you feel muscle pain in your thighs, arms, or around your belly, take a proper rest. Your body needs 3 or 4 days to grow new muscle. It??s important to stop exercising and sleep enough during the resting days, as new muscle cells are produced when you are sleeping.
You can do the anaerobic exercises, or exercises without breathing, easily even on a carpet at home. Even sit-ups become a good muscle-building exercise if you do it after you exhale all the air and stop breathing. Once you grow your muscles, your energy consumption increases 10% or even 20% with more muscles, both when you are up and asleep. So, you don’t have to believe in the assumption that you must exercise everyday. This is how you can increase muscle easily and get a body that is hard to gain weight easily.
