Sure you can can add weight, or some other kind
of external resistance, and that is recommended as you improve.
As you build strength, slowly and gradually
add external resistance such as a pair of small dumbbells to continue progressing.
There are different modes of power training like body weight or
external resistance such as dumbbell or kettle bell medicine balls.
And resistance training, building muscle strength
using external resistance, has been shown to not only improve memory and executive function in older adults, but to also maintain connective brain tissue.
When working with added weight, i.e. using with
call external resistance, it's easy to up the progressive overload and thus the intensity of your training by simply adding more iron.
Pneumatic resistance do a similar job to elastic bands and / or chains added to the barbell, by providing a
constant external resistance with air pressure.
Comparing the effect of
external resistance type, Vinstrup et al. (2015) explored erector spinae muscle activity during a machine trunk rotation exercise and a standing torso twist exercise with elastic resistance.
Zatsiorsky, who is constantly quoted by strength coaches, defines strength as ability to overcome or
counteract external resistance through muscular action (Zatsiorsky, 1995).
Comparing the
effect external resistance type, Saeterbakken et al. (2014) explored erector spinae muscle activity during the back squat with 6RM loads using either a barbell or a combination of a barbell and elastic resistance (where elastic resistance comprised between 25 — 40 % total load, depending on the phase of the lift).
«Working without added
external resistance allows you to master movement fundamentals adaptable to your body and progress when applicable.»
Speed Strength is the ability to quickly execute an unloaded movement or a movement against a relatively
small external resistance.
Al Kavadlo: After many years training with barbells, dumbbells, kettlebells and various strength training machines, I gradually began losing interest in
moving external resistance.
However, NASA gave Stephen Colbert a consolation honour: it would name the astronauts» new ISS treadmill, COLBERT (an acronym for: Combined Operational Load
Bearing External Resistance Treadmill).
During vertical pulling exercises, the latissimus dorsi muscle activity does not appear to be affected by grip width, stability at the hand, or type
of external resistance used.
Since there is little inertia, the lifter quickly reaches the
constant external resistance and must exert force against this through the whole exercise ROM.
Power can be trained with different training modes, whether it is bodyweight or
external resistance such as barbells, dumbbells, kettle bells, medicine balls or resistance bands.
From there, they examined how the cutoff voltage used for switching flow paths,
external resistance and salt concentrations influenced peak and average power production.
These training modes could be body weight or
external resistance, such as a barbell, dumbbell or a kettle bell, it could also be a medicine ball, a training machine, cables or bands.
Most of the times, when people talk about training to failure, they mean training to concentric failure, which is the point, where the weight or
external resistance can't be lifted anymore / the concentric phase of the lift can't be executed anymore.
This external resistance stimulates skeletal muscle to react and adapt to the stressor.
The external resistance, in weight training, may be weights, elastic bands, resistance machines and even one's own body weight.
Resistance training, as defined by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) «is a form of physical activity that is designed to improve muscular fitness by exercising a muscle or muscle group against
an external resistance.»
Muscle strengthening exercises, more frequently referred to as weight or resistance training these days, are exercises that involve the use of
external resistance to progressively increase your ability to exert or resist force.
In the negative phase, the muscles are stretched, and
the external resistance is higher than the muscle power, so the muscles only slow the motion.
Elastic bands or chains can be used to alter
the external resistance provided by free weights, and make it more like a constant external resistance.
External resistance can either stay constant, reduce, or remain the same over the exercise ROM.
External load type is the way in which
the external resistance changes over an exercise range of motion (ROM).
However, some recent studies have found that the two types of
external resistance may provide similar levels of test - re-test reliability.
Additionally, greater
external resistance (thicker bands) led to greater rectus abdominis muscle activity and greater external oblique muscle activity.
Accommodating resistance, provided by adding bands and chains to a plate - loaded barbell or machine, involves aspects of constant loads and constant
external resistance.
The set angular velocity can be zero, in which case
the external resistance is isometric, or non-zero, in which case the external resistance is isokinetic.
Assessing the effect of
external resistance, Saeterbakken et al. (2014) explored muscle activity of the abdominals during the back squat with either a barbell or a combination of a barbell and elastic resistance (where elastic resistance comprised between 25 — 40 % total load, depending on the phase of the lift), using 6RM.
In addition, split squat variations can be performed with a range of different types of
external resistance, including barbells (e.g. McCurdy et al. 2010), dumbbells, or even elastic resistance bands looped under the front foot and over the shoulder (e.g. as lunges performed as described in Jakobsen et al. 2012).
The landmine rotation is a great exercise to develop deep «cuts» in the obliques, but also train the core with
external resistance to stimulate new muscle growth.
Changing from a barbell to dumbbells involves altering the stability of
the external resistance directly, while changing from a bench to a Swiss ball involves altering the stability of the surface upon which the lifter is resting.
Though often softened in children's books, the path to peace is an arduous one, fraught with personal turmoil and
external resistance.
In this era of great change and uncertainty, Sui's oeuvre is imbued with interpretations of «force,» pressures that are rooted internally and conflicts of
external resistance.