Body Building Glossary You Should Know
December 31, 2008
Your first few days at the gym can be confusing and you can end up quitting it altogether, mainly because you do not manage to follow what they are saying there. Yeah, everybody knows that you are not dumb but you need to be an insider to know the gym jargon.
Here is a glossary of the terms used; this should help you out.
The glossary
Aerobic: This exercise is low intensity but longer duration. It will improve efficiency of oxygen consumption by body and is used to burn calories and reduce fat.
Anabolic: if you lift weights at a high intensity then anabolism is triggered, where simple substances are converted into complex materials.
Anaerobic: These are high intensity, shorter duration exercises, which improve strength.
Barbell: This is the bar, which holds plates of different weights and which is used for strength training.
Biceps: This is the large muscle at the front of the upper arm.
Cardio: This is an aerobic exercise, which mostly burns calories and fat and makes the heart strong.
Concentric Contraction: This is also called positive movement. It involves contracting the muscle against gravity.
Cycle: This refers to when intensity and volume of workouts are varied deliberately. It also concerns variation in dosages of steroids or such stuff.
Definition: When body is low in fat and the muscles are clearly defined.
Deltoids: This is a muscle, which covers the shoulder joint and enables raising the arm.
Dumbbell: This is a smaller version of barbell and it holds few plates and only one hand to hold it.
Eccentric contraction: This is the negative movement. This involves lengthening a muscle, when under tension.
Forced reps: Repetition of an exercise with the help of someone who bears part of the load.
Glutes: This refers to the group of three large muscles of each buttock, which move the thigh.
Hamstrings or Hams: This muscle group at the back of the upper leg helps to flex the knee joint, abduct the leg and extend the thigh.
HIT or High Intensity Training: This method involves short, intense workouts.
Intensity: This is the degree of difficulty of any given exercise.
Isolation: This involves working on a single muscle instead of a muscle group.
Isometric contraction: This is keeping a muscle under tension without eccentric or concentric motion.
Lactic acid: During intense exercise, the muscles produce this waste, which causes pain and soreness.
One Rep Max (1RM): This is the heaviest weight that a person can complete one full repetition.
Pump: After an intense exercise the muscles are filled with blood, this feeling is pump.
Quadriceps: This is the large muscle at the front of each thigh.
Range of Motion (ROM): This is the limit of motion of joints and muscle with reference to an exercise.
Workout: This is a combination of exercises, which are performed with short periods of rest in between.
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