Train, The Right Way!

By Tyron Thompson


Ever taken a look round your gymnasium to see what the people around you are doing?

Do you wonder if the workout they are doing will help you reach your own physical goals faster?

Those are a number of inquiries to ponder as you keep reading this, but the fact of the matter is there is a 'better ' lift to do than the majority of the lifts that you see folks performing at your gym.

As an example, today a couple in my private gym took it upon themselves to do a variety of exercises working their body from top to bottom, or so they believed.

Their workout started with some dumbbell shoulder shrugs. That exercise targets the trapezius muscles that, if massive enough, might make you look like you haven't got any neck.

On the surface of things that would appear to be a handy exercise to do, but if you dig a bit deeper you will 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 is equal to the force times the distance that you are moving that force and the quantity of times that you are moving that force. As an example, if you were going to use 30-pound dumbbells you may move that weight a sum total of three inches maximum. The trapezius muscles aren't that big so don't have the range that the bigger muscles do.

So that 30-pound weight moved 3 inches, ten times, gives us a bunch of 9 hundred. The unit of measure at that point is unimportant.

Now let's have a look at an alternative exercise, the military press. This exercise is done with an Olympic bar pressing it from about your chin all the way above your head till your arms about absolutely extended.

For this exercise we only used the weight of the bar which is 45-pounds. If you make the motion as if you were performing the exercise you may notice the distance that bar is going to travel is around 24 inches or even more dependent on your size, and it was done for a sum total of 10 repetitions. So 45-pounds, times 24-inches, times ten repetitions gives us a bunch of 10,800- again the unit of measure is irrelevant. It only becomes relevant 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 a way to see if you're getting the best from your workout session. Many people are insensible to some of the exercises that they opt to do and just do anything that is evoked. You only have so much energy when you hit the gym floor, make it count and put it toward exercises that will give you the bang for you buck.




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