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During the last few years the Economy has been on a down swing. Jobs can be hard to come by, especially good career oriented work. But while the economy comes crushing down, the need for health care workers has not.

In health care there is a variety of different professions one can enter into. People choose to be LVN’s, CNA’s, physician assistants, sometimes even doctors. But one profession often times goes unnoticed, And that is surgical Technicians.

Surgical Technicians are medical professionals that are in charge of assisting the surgeons during a procedure. Their responsibilities during a procedure include sterilizing the surgical area, and keeping it sterilized. They also are in charge of sterilizing the tools that are used during the operation and being well versed in their usage and functions. During the procedure a surgical technician is in charge of handing the surgeon each and every tool they ask for. Whether it be the scalpel, the clamps, or suction, the surgical technician needs to be ready to hand the tool to the surgeon quickly. They tend to have added responsibilities depending on which surgeon they are assisting but for the most part those are their main responsibilities.

Unlike other medical professions, the surgical technician schooling is relatively fast and painless. The schooling teaches sterilization, the tools and techniques used for surgery, and clinical lab hours. It can easily be completed in under a year, and more often then not the training center provides job placement.

What really surprises people is how much surgical technicians make. Often times they start out at around eighteen to twenty dollars an hour. However the surgical technician makes most of his or her money by being on call. The surgical Technician is paid for every hour they are on call ina given week. And they can easily be on call for an entire week straight. This means that 24/7 a surgical technician is getting paid for his or her time.

Now that doesn’t come across at first as a lot of money, however imagine being paid every hour of every day for weeks on end. The amount of money the surgical technician makes quickly adds up, and quite simply put, it is not uncommon fo them to clear 100K a year after a few years of employment.

Best of all, while a surgical technician is on call they are simply required to be fifteen minutes from the hospital. So the surgical technician is being paid while they are at home cooking dinner, while they are working out at the gym, while they are playing with their children, they are paid for simply living their lives.

When interviewing a surgical technician last week he explained that he had been on call for the last two weeks. During those two weeks he was only called in twice. He was paid for almost 650 hours while lounging at home playing with his kids!!

The career of Surgical Technicians is often not referenced when deciding which medical profession to go into. However it is quite simply one of the most laid back and rewarding careers a person can choose for themselves.

Did you know that you can carry out more than a standard ChinUp with your Chin Up Bar? The result is can get better use out of your ChinUp bar, exercising a greater number of muscle areas and giving you a far better overall toned an muscular physique.

ChinUp

Chin ups should be carried out by griping the Pull Up Bar with your grip facing inwards (this is called a supinated grip). You should lift yourself up to the point your chin is raised above the bar, prefrebly until you can touch the bar with your pecs. If you can’t do this at the beginning you can do negative chin ups where you use a chair to put yourself in the completed position and lower yourself down. You can do assisted chin ups; where a resistance band, box or assistant helps you with the final small push to the top.  Finally you could try kip chin ups; where a swinging motion of the lower body can be used to aid you in the exercise. Once you can do chin ups you can start adding ballast to make the exercise more difficult.

Muscles Used: Lats

Pull Ups

Pull ups should be conducted in an identical way as chin ups but with the palms facing away from you (pronated grip). By changing your hand position, and the movement this restricts you to a lower stress is placed on using the bicep muscle which will force the other muscles to be exercised more.

Targets: Latissimus dorsi

Hanging Leg Raises

Leg raises are conducted by dangling from the Pull Up bar and raising the lower body up in a straight line to make an L shape or 90 degree angle.

Muscles Used: Stomach

Incline Press Ups

We all know that a press up is an easier alternative to bench press, but when you don’t have access to get to a gym a push up is better than not completing your chest routine.

With some of the newer generation over the door Pull-Up bars such as the Medicarn Chin Up Bar these can be placed on the ground and the frame used for conducting incline push ups, instead of just doing normal press ups. By conducting the exercise on an incline a higher focus is placed on the upper chest muscles which will give a fuller and better look throughout the body instead of just focusing on the lower pec muscles.

Muscles Used: Pectoralis major muscle

Decline Push Ups

In an identical way as you have just used the bar to perform incline press ups you can also put your feet on it to conduct decline push ups; which will focus on the lower chest area instead of the upper.

Muscles: Chest

Our first task is to redefine functional training.  It has become such a buzz word, and is so over-used, that it’s become almost worthless.  It’s generally thought of now as a fancy series of physioball and stretch band exercises.  But my view is totally different. 

In my view, functionality is merely the capacity to apply your training to the demands of your life and sporting activities.  In what way does your exercise program make you more likely to fully embrace your life or excel in your sporting activities?  Functional exercise is about being able to get down on the floor to play with your children without any aches, pains or heavy breathing.  Functionality is the ability to take that jump shot without worrying about throwing out your back.  So when it comes down to it, I don’t even think of myself as a fan of “functional training.”  I think that exercise must use whatever tools work best to get the most out of everyday life, hobbies and sport.

Training must be based around movement not muscle.  Coach Scott Sonnon of Circular Strength Training teaches us about Flow.  You find your flow when you learn to get out of your own way and are able to express yourself through your movement.  In order to do that, you must rid yourself of all the restrictive forces stopping you.  Restrictive forces include tightness, alarm, compressed joints and emotional roadblocks.  You then move on to building the driving forces required for great performance.  Among these are strength, proper patterns of movement, mobility, etc.  When you discover Flow, your natural movement, the other things come.  Health, performance, fat loss and strength grow from movement.

Throughout the ages, our forefathers were full of health and vitality precicely because they were in perpetual motion.  They didn’t “exercise” to get fit.  We live in a very different time, we have to simulate functional movement to compensate for a sedentary society.  The closer we can come to stimulating our bodies through “real world” movement, the more healthy we will be and the more natural our bodies will look.  That is were the notion of the Functional Physique came from.

There will always be room for conventional exercise equipment and methods.  It’s a necessary component of overall exercise programming, especially in the beginning.  When it comes down to it, lifting heavy things in straight lines was a part of our history too. 

However, I also think we need to take a lesson from the physical practicies that came before this age of weight machines and cardio contraptions.  Throughout the ages, strength, mobility, endurance, beautiful physiques and vibrant health were an integral part of primal forms of movement and activity. 

Modern trainees can take a page from history by including things like bodyweight exercise, Clubbells®, kettlebells, sandbags, gym rings, TRX, and more into their exercise programs.   These methods permit us to integrate strength and conditioning into a more functional forms.  And to me, that’s functional training.  That’s something that can be used to help me in my daily activities, in my leisure activities and in my sports endeavors.

Bodybuilding training is one of the most popular types of exercise for people today because it provides a number of different benefits to the body.  Many experts have been telling people about the benefits of bodybuilding weight training for years and the sale of programs showing proper bodybuilding techniques can reach millions each year.  Knowing the benefits that bodybuilding training provides to the body may make more people interested in exercising on a regular basis.

Ways That Bodybuilding Training Benefits The Body

One of the biggest benefits of bodybuilding training is the way that it increases the overall strength of the body.  When the training is done properly, many of the muscles in the body are affected and the tendons holding the muscles to the bones increase their strength.  People that undergo bodybuilding training have a lower risk of muscle injury because the muscles of the body are used to wrenching maneuvers and are flexible enough to withstand most of the sudden movement that generally cause harm to the muscles and tendons.

Bodybuilding Training

Bodybuilding training increases the strength of the muscles by constantly working and reworking the muscles in the body.  The routines that are used for bodybuilding training dramatically increase the size and capacity of the muscles in a shorter period of time than with regular strength training and people that use bodybuilding training as a way to regain lost strength and rebuild their muscles can see results in a matter of months.  There are a number of personal trainers around the county that specialize in this type of training and will be willing to train the person for a reasonable fee.

Bodybuilding training can increase the amount of blood flow through the body through the different exercises, which can reduce or eliminate the chances of developing a number of different health issues.An increased rate of blood flow can remove waste from the body more quickly and move much more oxygen from the lungs to the brain and other parts of the body in higher amounts in a shorter period of time.  The blood nourishes the muscles of the body faster, increasing the strength of the muscles in a dramatic way.

Bodybuilding training is one of the few types of exercise that provides benefits to the entire body, as long as the exercises are done with some frequency and for the correct amount of time.Doing the training exercises on a more frequent basis will provide more benefits and faster results, but doing the bodybuilding training exercises at least two times every week can result in improved health and muscle mass.

The benefits associated with these bodybuilding training exercises are more than enough reason for any person that is interested in body building training to complete the motions of the training exercises on a regular basis.