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Organizing Your Long-Term Weight Training
Weight Training, Each period has a different theme. For example, one month you may use weight machines, and the next month you may switch to dumbbells and barbells. Or you can change the number of sets, repetitions, and exercises you perform from one period to the next.
Weight Training – Getting Acquainted with Sets
Weight Training, Beginners should start with one set for each of the major muscle groups listed under “Previewing Weight Routine Essentials: Working all of your major muscle groups.” That’s roughly 11 sets per workout.
Putting Your Mind into Your Muscle
Studies also show that psyching up before you perform a weight training exercise can improve performance for people with at least one year of training experience. Psyching up strategies include the use of imagery, positive self-talk, affirmations, and focusing attention.
Defining Key Weight Training Jargon
Weight training has its fair share of gobbledygook. You don’t need to be fluent in the language spoken at bodybuilding competitions and physiology conferences; but to design an effective workout, you do need to know the basics to better understand your trainer or training materials. In this sec...
Common Weight Training Injuries
Accidents happen, even to careful lifters. So, here’s a primer on weight training injuries in case you do run into one. When you strain or pull a muscle, you actually overstretch or tear the tendon, the tough, cordlike tissue at the end of the muscle where the muscle tapers off and attaches to ...
Weight Lifting and The Art of Spotting
A spotter is someone who stands close by you when you’re lifting weights. This person is ready to grab your weights in case your muscles give out. The spotter can be your lifting partner that you go to the gym with or a stranger in the gym that you enlist for one or two exercises. [...]
Heeding Some Advice: Weight Lifting Safety Tips
Weight lifting is a safe activity that involves a risk of injury. You can minimize your risk of hurting yourself by following the basic common sense tips:
Safety Laws of Weight Lifting
Weight Lifting Safety - Forget what your Grandma told you. Truth is — there’s nothing inherently unsafe about weight machines or barbells. It’s what you do with these contraptions that can leave you with smashed toes, ripped hamstrings, and torn tendons.
Weight Training- Understanding Repetition’s
Weight Training, The number of repetitions, or reps, you perform matters a lot. In general, if your goal is to build the largest, strongest muscles that your genetic makeup allows, perform relatively few repetitions, about four to six (perhaps even as few as one to two).
Choosing Your Training Equipment
Choosing Your Training Equipment: In fitness magazines, health clubs, and videos or DVDs, you often hear weight equipment referred to as resistance equipment. We hate to clutter your brain with jargon right off the bat, but resistance is a word you need to know.
