Perhaps you already wear a nursing uniform as an RN, and LPN, or a Certified Nursing Assistant, but you are looking for more professional challenges and responsibility as well as the increased potential earnings of such a position. You need to know what the additional educational requirements you will need in order to reach higher levels of the nursing profession are and whether the investment required by further schooling will actually pay off in the end? The fact is that due to health care reform and an aging population, the supply of nurses at the present time is considerably less than the demand of medical institutions to fill their available positions and the demand for nursing professionals will continue to grow and grow in the next decades. The insurance industry has shifted the medical career landscape by making nurses, rather than doctors, primary medical care providers for most Americans. It is now normal for patients to seek out primary care nurses for routine checkups, examinations, referrals, and even their emergency care. There has never been a more opportune time to evaluate your current skill level and position yourself strategically in a high-specialty nursing career through advanced training.

At the present time many top nursing schools are expanding accelerated nursing bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in order to train existing workers in nurses uniforms for advanced careers or medical specialties. There are convenient night and weekend classes available from some of these schools, and others provide online programs. Advanced Practice Nurses (APN’s) are in special demand, and this career option is popular since it brings a higher level of responsibility, autonomy, and patient contact than other nursing specialties. APN’s can work either independently or as part of a health care team. APN’s require either a master’s degree or a combination of bachelor’s degree with specific work experience; state or national certification are also required.

There are four principal areas of advanced practical nursing uniforms: Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) provide consultations and care directly to patients. They usually focus on a specific area of medical health care, such as geriatrics, women’s health, or stress management. CNS salaries can exceed $50,000 a year. Nurse Practitioners (NP) focus on preventative medicine, health maintenance, and patient education. NP specialties include family practice, pediatrics, mental health, and gerontology. There is a high demand for NP’s at the present time - particular bilingual nurse practitioners - and their salaries can top $70,000. Certified Nurse Midwives (CNM) focus upon women’s healthcare issues such as family planning, pregnancy and childbirth, neonatal care; and gynecological and obstetrical conditions. Annual CNM salaries can be as high as $90,000. Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA) administer anesthesia and take responsibility for related care before, during, and following surgeries. CRNA salaries can easily top $110,000 per year.

Do you wonder why a doctor practices medicine even after all that training? Medicine in context of sports, movements, and exercise is a very new concept. The field of sports medicine is defined as a medical subspecialty responsible for continuous care, enhancement of health and fitness, and prevention of injury and illness to an individual engaged in physical exercise and sports. In the spectrum of science, sports medicine was never a prime concern. It was not until the last couple of generations that exercise was looked to prolong life and can improve your body’s day to day function. Gears of concern changed and Sports Medicine became into mainstream media. You are active and take this science for granted. But years ago exercise was looked down upon and the body’s signs of physical work offered only signs of serfdom and lower class citizens. To follow, you will have a brief history of the movement science we now refer to as sports medicine.

At the beginning of recorded time, humans have been doing the right things. As far back as the Primitive Era (2500 B.C), the Chinese were using exercise to overcome and prevent disease in efforts of prolonging life. In the days of the Greek Era 9500 B.C. athletics were a large part of life and entertainment. Greek physicians began involving themselves with athletics. Herodicus (480 B.C.) is recognized as the first “Teacher of Athletic Medicine”. Hippocrates (460 B.C.) is responsible for the development of medicine. He spent much time preparing athletes for competition and treating their injuries. Aristotle (340 B.C.) was another popular physician. Athletics were more than a sport, the Greeks built physical activity and training into their daily lives and education systems as a tool to thwart invasion from other countries.

The science briefly took off during the Roman Era (150 A.D). A Greek physician, named Clautius Galen moved to Rome and became the team physician to the gladiators! This may have been the first team coach of sorts in time. He optimized his unique position and gave four great contributions. The first was that muscles contract and shorten. Second, nerves carry a stimulus from the brain to the muscles. Thirdly, he noted that arteries take a substance (found to be Oxygen) from the lungs outwards to the tissues. Galen inevitably developed therapeutic rehabilitation exercises for his gladiators after injury. The Dark Era (1500 A.D.) offered little scientific developments. Humans heavily concerned themselves with warfare in those days. Supposedly many physicians were turning society off of exercise habits and routines. Ironically the physicians of the time mistranslated the Greek texts to mean that vigorous exercise and sports were not advisable.

When science began looking at exercise again, it became known as the Modern Era (1600-Present Day). During the 1600’s William Harvey discovered and described the flow and circulation of blood. Other medical writers of the day claimed that exercise could “preserve health”. In the 1800’s, the science finally became quantified. An English physiologist, Edward Smith, was the first to quantify the amount of work output. He actually built a large treadmill to hold 10 prisoners for work force and then used wind resistance to adjust the power levels. In Scandinavia, a large movement began and separated itself from conventional medical fields. It was named Gymnastics. The new field organized the use of exercise to improve and develop physical and mental attributes.

America in the 1900-2000 years showed many improvements and discoveries. From 1900-1920, A.V. Hill, an English physiologist, won the Noble Prize for work in muscle physiology. He is considered to be the “First Exercise Physiologist.” Two pioneer men studied under Hill. These two men established the Harvard Fatigue Lab. This is where it all started to boom. This is the very first exercise physiology lab in the US and it was literally in the basement of the Harvard Business School. Bruce Dill was one of the two founders and acclaimed as the first American Exercise Physiologist. He is highly published on exercise and physical chemistry, mainly on hemoglobin. The second founder, Joseph Wolfe, went on to create the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) in 1954.

The Harvard Fatigue Lab truly set a new science in motion. During the 1940-1960’s, the Army Research Lab in Natick, Massachusetts began tests. They eventually established progressive research on body composition, the body’s response to heat and cold during exercise, and much more. The 1960- 1980 years became the beginning of a fitness boom within mainstream media and society. This sudden resurgence of fitness and exercise lead Ken Cooper to coin the term and popular group training style, Aerobics. Research began into exercise effects from altitude, heart disease, nutrition, and surgical techniques and materials. All of which play vital roles in athletics and rehabilitation.

The present day is anyone’s guess. Things may be discovered that will shake the foundations of exercise science. Just these last few years, the food pyramid was completely redesigned to include different aspects of activity levels and body types within society. Recent advances with laptop computers and processing speeds, biochemical analyzers, and gas analyzers that sense your breathing exchange while moving. If your athletic curiosity demanded, you can now find out the ratio of muscle fiber types by essentially using a thick needle and pulling out a small cylinder of muscle tissue. Surprisingly it is a painful and invasive quick prick. This is named NMR spectroscopy and imaging. We, in the industry are always practicing. We always adapt routine not only to maximize results but also to adapt to the ever-changing new science. The future is limitless with the human body.

Author : ROB NIX, Sport Skills Specialist

Many people don’t know about pro-anabolics and how they can help with lean mass gain. Bodybuilders and weight lifters are all after the same one thing. That is, a lean hard body. Getting these serious results is definitely not an easy task. There is so much to a human body that it is very difficult to decide what works. For some, it seems easy and no one really knows if it is their genetics, pro hormones, pro steroids, or even illegal steroids.

One thing that has come from the Eastern Europeans is pro-anabolic agents. Until recently, these agents were a huge secret, only being used by Communist athletes. When Communism began to fall, the secrets started coming out. One compound turned out to be Ecdysterone – a very powerful pro-anabolic. Some of the newly found data regarding this pro-hormone show that athletes who took large doses of the Ecdysterone made extreme gains in muscle size, endurance, and strength.

So, is this Ecdysterone and other pro-anabolics the missing link to real muscle growth? Researchers found that actually protein synthesis and anti-catabolic activities is what really helps build lean muscle mass. When the two work together, you can get phenomenal results. Anti-catabolism is the halting of cellular breakdown in the body. Doing this makes it easier to build new muscle mass. Protein synthesis is the process in which cells build protein. Obviously, if you can find a way to combine these two processes, halting the breakdown of protein cells and building more protein cells, you have a better chance of building lean muscles. There are three ingredients that play a huge part in these processes. They are the Ecdysterone we talked about earlier, Methoxy, and Ipriflabone. These three make a pro-anabolic that is used for maximizing muscle building, faster recovery and significant gains in lean muscle mass.

There are other pro-anabolics as well. One of these is a Spirostane compound. It also increases the protein synthesis rate within the cells. Another compound is made with Spirosten. This one supports optimal gains in both mass and strength. It limits the amounts of estrogen in the cells but allows only the amount needed to feed the protein synthesis. A third ingredient works with pro-anabolics and is an herbal extract that enhances libido and is a nerve stimulant. It is called Ptychopetalum Olacoide. It is combined with the pro-anabolics to intensify training.

There are 5 quick and simple ways to jump start the process of anabolism and get you on your way to lean muscle mass. The first tip is to emphasize the negative. When working out, you want to overload muscles in the negative phase. This is when the muscles are stretched and lengthened, not contracted. Eating fish that contain higher amounts of fat and omega 3 fatty acids make muscles more sensitive to insulin and fuel glycogen storage and amino acid entry into the muscles. Increasing sodium can actually help as well as discontinuing any aerobic exercise which interferes with gaining muscle mass. The fifth way is to do some tough power lifting. The equation is: more strength equals more tension on the muscle equals more growth. The harder you lift with more weight, the more growth you’ll get. Also, don’t forget to rest! Your body does need that too.

Using these simple ways to kick start anabolism and using pro-anabolics can really help you gain the lean muscle mass you want. Bad Ass Mass by ALR is a pro-anabolic that is designed to support this serious lean mass gain and can help you get that lead, rock-hard body you’ve always wanted.