DO YOU WANT TO OPTIMIZE YOUR BODY COMPOSITION ?

Do you feel fat? If so, here is another reason to make rational decision about your body composition.

Body composition components divide into two components system:

lean weight and fat weight.

The weight of the body can be viewed as a two-component system-lean weight and fat weight. Lean body weights include the weight of bones, muscle, organs, body water and other fat-free tissue. Fat is also divided into two component-essential fat and storage fat.

Essential Fat

Essential fat is fat that is thought to be essential for life and normal physiological functioning. It includes the fat in cell membranes and the fat stores in the morrow of the bones as well as in the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, spleen, intestines, skeletal muscles and central nervous. In men, essential fat accounts for approximately 3% of body weight (Behnke and Wilmore, 1974). In women, essential fat is higher approximately 12 % of the body weight.

Storage Fat

The other major fat, storage fat, consists of fat located in the dispose tissue. The storage fat includes the fatty tissues that protect the internal organs as well as the layer of subcutaneous fat is located beneath the skin surface. Most of us like to have goods body, show increase in the human with age:

• Collage age male have approximately 15% of body fat, 3% essential fat and 12% storage fat.
• Collage age female have approximately 25-27% of body fat, 12% essential and 13-15% storage fat.
  

Several studies have indicated that exercise helps maintain tissue while promoting fat loss. Total body weight and fat weight are generally reduce with endurance training programs, whereas lean body weight remains constants or increase slightly. Programs conducted at least 3 days per week. For at least 20 minutes duration. And of sufficient intensity and duration to expend at least 300 kcal per exercise session have been suggested as providing a threshold level for total body mass and fat weight reduction.