Sentences with phrase «contractions against a resistance»

-- muscle - building exercises (or a system of muscle - building exercises) involving muscular contractions against resistance without movement (the muscles contracts but the length of the muscle does not change)

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By definition, training for strength involves using resistance against muscle contraction to build muscle strength, endurance and size.

Your third exercise you select a peak - contraction exercise, which challenges the muscle to contract against resistance.

Now reduce the stretch ever so slightly and begin to contract the target muscles against the resistance being used, increase the contraction from the fourth second until it reaches its peak at 10 seconds and then instantly relax the muscles.

Proprioceptive neuromusclar facilitation, or PNF for short, «uses the nervous system by involving a contraction against light resistance, followed by release of the muscle,» says Campbell.