Have you ever taken a look round your gymnasium to see what the people around you do?
Do you ponder whether the workout they are doing will help you accomplish your own physical goals faster?
Those are a small number of questions to ponder as you continue to read this, but the fact of the matter is there is a 'better ' lift to do than almost all of the lifts that you see people performing at your gym.
For instance, today a pair in my gym took it upon themselves to do a selection of exercises working their body from head to toe, or so they assumed.
Their workout started with some dumbbell shoulder shrugs. That exercise targets the trapezius muscles that, if massive enough, might make you appear as if you haven't got any neck.
On the surface of things that would appear to be a healthy 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 amount of work done equals the force times the distance you are moving that force and the quantity of times that you are moving that force. As an example, if one was to use 30-pound dumbbells you could move that weight a total of three inches maximum. The trapezius muscles aren't that large so do not have the range that the larger muscle groups do.
So that 30-pound weight moved three inches, 10 times, gives us a number of 9 hundred. The unit of measure at that point is unimportant.
Now lets take a look at an alternative exercise, the military press. This exercising is done with an Olympic bar pressing it from about your jaw all the way above your head until your arms about completely 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 may notice the distance that bar is going to go is around 24 inches or even more depending on your size, which was done for a sum total of 10 repetitions. So 45-pounds, times 24-inches, times ten repetitions gives us several 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 army press was twelve 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 best out of your exercise session. Many people are oblivious to a few of the exercises that they choose to do and just do anything that comes to mind. You only have so much energy when you hit the gymnasium floor, make it count and put it towards exercises which will give you the bang for you buck.
Do you ponder whether the workout they are doing will help you accomplish your own physical goals faster?
Those are a small number of questions to ponder as you continue to read this, but the fact of the matter is there is a 'better ' lift to do than almost all of the lifts that you see people performing at your gym.
For instance, today a pair in my gym took it upon themselves to do a selection of exercises working their body from head to toe, or so they assumed.
Their workout started with some dumbbell shoulder shrugs. That exercise targets the trapezius muscles that, if massive enough, might make you appear as if you haven't got any neck.
On the surface of things that would appear to be a healthy 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 amount of work done equals the force times the distance you are moving that force and the quantity of times that you are moving that force. As an example, if one was to use 30-pound dumbbells you could move that weight a total of three inches maximum. The trapezius muscles aren't that large so do not have the range that the larger muscle groups do.
So that 30-pound weight moved three inches, 10 times, gives us a number of 9 hundred. The unit of measure at that point is unimportant.
Now lets take a look at an alternative exercise, the military press. This exercising is done with an Olympic bar pressing it from about your jaw all the way above your head until your arms about completely 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 may notice the distance that bar is going to go is around 24 inches or even more depending on your size, which was done for a sum total of 10 repetitions. So 45-pounds, times 24-inches, times ten repetitions gives us several 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 army press was twelve 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 best out of your exercise session. Many people are oblivious to a few of the exercises that they choose to do and just do anything that comes to mind. You only have so much energy when you hit the gymnasium floor, make it count and put it towards exercises which will give you the bang for you buck.
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