Posts Tagged ‘Repetitions’
This week, my gym is flooded with new faces. It’s that post-New Years craze that sends everyone to the gyms to try and fulfill that elusive but always primary goal of the New Year: lose weight and get into shape. I watched one new member make her way around through the jungle of strength training equipment last night. She moved from machine to machine doing one set here, two sets there, five repetitions here, twenty there. No rhyme or reason to it, no paper and pencil in hand, it just appeared a
Abdominal Fitness – The Information You Should Know About
Saturday, October 10th, 2009
Find stimulating ways to exercise and also make sure you do them in a safe manner. For an increased challenge, pushups can be done with your feet elevated or with one of your arms placed at a different height than the other. Additional forms of relatively strenuous push-ups include doing them on your fingertips or clapping your hands in between repetitions. On the other hand, if you find regular pushups too difficult, let your knees touch the floor or do them while leaning against a wall. Simila
Help! I’ve Fallen and I can’t Get UP!
Friday, September 25th, 2009
Sep.25, 2009 Health and Fitness Tags : balance, Brakes, Broken Hips, disability, Exact Scenario, exercise, falls, Feet, Fingers, fitness, Hamstrings, Importan, Knees, Leg Strength, Muscles, Older Adults, Period Of Time, Quadriceps, Repetitions, strength, Stretching Exercises, Strong Legs, Time Flexibility, Toilet Related Posts:Are You Well Balanced? Do You Fall Easily?How to Develop Practical StrengthQuestioning Warm-Ups: Solving an Often Overlooked Aspect of Training (Part 1)Core Training B
Optimize Your Exercise: Maximizing the Time Spent Working Out
Friday, September 18th, 2009
Sep.19, 2009 Health and Fitness Tags : Ala, American Council On Exercise, Blood Flow, Cla, diet, Diet And Exercise, Diet Exercise, drink, Elasticity, fat-loss, Flexibility, green tea, Habit, Heart Rate, Home 1, Humor, Hydrate, kidney, liver, Maximum Workout, Metabolism, Muscles, obese, Regions, Repetitions, Setbacks, Survey, Time 3, Twins, Water, Water Water, weight loss, Workout Intensity Related Posts:Remembering The Titanic: Top Ten Weight Loss Mistakes Others Make But We Can AvoidWhat Cow
Some Steps To Building Muscle
Monday, August 31st, 2009
how to get ripped abs Repetitions are the basic building blocks of any strength or muscle building program but it is something that many lifters take for granted. How often do you see people at the gym speed through their reps, breathe haphazardly or fail to complete each rep correctly from a technical perspective? There is much more to the simple rep than meets the eye. The first thing to note is that a repetition consists of three elements – namely lower, pause and lift. The speed at whic