Ever taken a look round your gymnasium to see what the people around you do?
Do you wonder if the workout they are doing will help you get to your own physical goals faster?
Those are a couple of questions to ponder as you continue to read this, but the fact is there is a 'better ' lift to do than most of the lifts that you see folk performing at your gym.
For example, today a couple in my own gymnasium took it upon themselves to do a range of exercises working their body from head to toe, or that's what they believed.
Their workout started with some dumbbell shoulder shrugs. That exercise targets the trapezius muscles that, if large enough, might make you look like you haven't got any neck.
On the surface of things that would seem to be a handy exercise to do, but if you dig a bit deeper you'll find that exercise does little in the way of helping you burn even the most minute of calories.
Let us look at it mathematically. The quantity of work done equals the force times the distance you're moving that force and the amount of times that you are moving that force. As an example, if you were to use 30-pound dumbbells you may move that weight an overall total of 3 inches maximum. The trapezius muscles are not that massive therefore don't have the range the larger muscle groups do.
So that 30-pound weight moved 3 inches, 10 times, gives us a considerable number of nine hundred. The unit of measure at this point is unimportant.
Now lets look at an alternative exercise, the army press. This exercise is done with an Olympic bar pressing it from about your jaw all the way above your head until your arms about fully extended.
For this exercise we only employed the weight of the bar which is 45-pounds. If you make the motion as if you were performing the exercise you might notice the distance that bar is going to travel is around 24 inches or more dependent on your size, and it was done for a total of ten repetitions. So 45-pounds, times 24-inches, times 10 repetitions gives us several 10,800- again the unit of measure is irrelevant. It only becomes important if we were to work out that number into calories burned.
On the surface, doing the military press was 12 times more effective than doing a dumbbell shrug, and that was with only the 45-pound bar.
This is only one example of one way to see if you are getting the most out of your exercise session. Many individuals are unconcerned to a couple of the exercises that they choose to do and just do anything that suggests itself. You only have so much energy when you hit the gymnasium floor, make it count and put it toward exercises which will give you the bang for you buck.
Do you wonder if the workout they are doing will help you get to your own physical goals faster?
Those are a couple of questions to ponder as you continue to read this, but the fact is there is a 'better ' lift to do than most of the lifts that you see folk performing at your gym.
For example, today a couple in my own gymnasium took it upon themselves to do a range of exercises working their body from head to toe, or that's what they believed.
Their workout started with some dumbbell shoulder shrugs. That exercise targets the trapezius muscles that, if large enough, might make you look like you haven't got any neck.
On the surface of things that would seem to be a handy exercise to do, but if you dig a bit deeper you'll find that exercise does little in the way of helping you burn even the most minute of calories.
Let us look at it mathematically. The quantity of work done equals the force times the distance you're moving that force and the amount of times that you are moving that force. As an example, if you were to use 30-pound dumbbells you may move that weight an overall total of 3 inches maximum. The trapezius muscles are not that massive therefore don't have the range the larger muscle groups do.
So that 30-pound weight moved 3 inches, 10 times, gives us a considerable number of nine hundred. The unit of measure at this point is unimportant.
Now lets look at an alternative exercise, the army press. This exercise is done with an Olympic bar pressing it from about your jaw all the way above your head until your arms about fully extended.
For this exercise we only employed the weight of the bar which is 45-pounds. If you make the motion as if you were performing the exercise you might notice the distance that bar is going to travel is around 24 inches or more dependent on your size, and it was done for a total of ten repetitions. So 45-pounds, times 24-inches, times 10 repetitions gives us several 10,800- again the unit of measure is irrelevant. It only becomes important if we were to work out that number into calories burned.
On the surface, doing the military press was 12 times more effective than doing a dumbbell shrug, and that was with only the 45-pound bar.
This is only one example of one way to see if you are getting the most out of your exercise session. Many individuals are unconcerned to a couple of the exercises that they choose to do and just do anything that suggests itself. You only have so much energy when you hit the gymnasium floor, make it count and put it toward exercises which will give you the bang for you buck.
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