Sentences with phrase «full contraction»

Pull all the way up until you hit full contraction at the top.

At the top of the motion, squeeze your shoulder blades together for full contraction, then slowly lower the bar back to the start position.

They don't have to worry about full contraction of the muscle and slow, controlled eccentric.

Hence, stretching them well, will insure full contractions during hamstrings curls.

Pick a relatively heavy weight that you can work with and achieve full contraction in the gastrocnemius.

It is relatively small muscle located at the elbow joint that locks or fully extends the arm to achieve full contraction of the triceps.

Chains are a great way to add resistance to your barbell curls and allow your biceps to reach full contraction.

Partial curls are performed by curling your arms upward, then stopping when your forearms become parallel to the floor and lowering back down, while partial peak curls are performed by curling the weight up to your shoulders, then lowering it down halfway (when the forearms are parallel to the floor) and curling up to full contraction again.

You can also perform the exercise while standing and bending forward from the hips to let the dumbbell hang straight down, as Arnold advocated, to ensure full contraction at the top of the movement.

When you tighten your gluteus maximus, it tilts your pelvis back at first, but when it reaches full contraction, it forms a hard lump of muscle that sits between the back of the pelvis and the back of the thigh.

Other than that, he advocates using weight that's heavy enough to activate the secondary working muscles to support the lift, which in turn allows the primary muscle to achieve full contraction and places even more stress on it.

Alternate the hip squeeze with counter pressure on the mother's lower back, doing each massage for one full contraction.

Curl the load until you feel a full contraction in the hamstrings.

With only the elbow bent, pull the dumbbell forward until you reach a full contraction in your arm, and then press it backward until you fully extend it.

For a full contraction in your back, squeeze your shoulder blades together when you get to the top, then extend your arms towards the floor again.

As you begin to get close to muscle failure and can not get a full contraction, proceed with doing some presses in an explosive manner and ensure you do them every rep with a full range of motion.

If you want to put extra pressure on your medial heads, throw in some reverse grip pushdowns in your workout and make sure that you always get the full contractions when you're doing any triceps exercise.

Getting Double the Workout — Begin your set with your arm fully extended with a little bend at the elbow, then take it up for a full contraction.

In these terms, the forearms are very similar to the calves — success will only come if you train them very hard and very often, preferably with specific exercises that allow for a full contraction.

To get maximum benefits, you need to focus on doing the exercises the right way: full contraction, slow negative, full stretch.

Form should always come before weight, so reduce the poundage and focus on completing a full range of motion and achieving a full contraction at the top of every rep.

Pause to get a full contraction at the bottom position and then start releasing the load upward in a controlled and slow manner to achieve a smooth movement.

The triceps must be pre-stretched in order to get a full contraction, and the way to do this is by placing your elbows above your head.

I strive for full extension and full contraction.»

You should focus on performing the reps of every exercise from full stretch to full contraction, turning to partial reps only when your strength starts to fail you.

By doing so, you're achieving the full contraction of your body's midsection.

One of the keys to developing the «six - pack» muscles of the abs and getting that washboard look is achieving a FULL contraction through body position... in this case, you'll be bent in half.

A full contraction doesn't need to have your chest touching the bar, but you should be able to bring your chin to the bar.

It's best to try and keep the hips elevated off the floor the whole time then work on the arm extension portion by itself before combining the two into a full contraction.

(There has to be some stretch in the muscle for ideal fiber alignment and therefore max - force production; in fact the closer you get to full contraction, the less force you can produce because of fiber crowding and bunching.)

Your shoulder blades must squeeze together in back at the point of full contraction (when the bar touches your torso).

By getting a full contraction on the squat, we may get the athlete to be able to recruit more muscle fibers on their second set of box jumps

To keep the ROM as wide as you can, start by letting your traps fully stretch at the bottom, then shrug upward to a full contraction.

Try swinging the weight to full contraction, then gently lowering it.

You don't need much weight to get a full contraction and using too much could cause you to lose your balance on the bench.

I like this for a full contraction, though it is optional if you can't make it all the way like this.

A full contraction starts at ground floor and reaches 5th floor, maximum contraction ability.

In this disorder, the signals in the atria become chaotic and only at irregular periods succeed in stimulating the heart muscles to full contraction.