Sentences with phrase «giving other muscle groups»

This is why you might hear a bodybuilder or weighted workout enthusiast say «today is an arms day» or «tomorrow is legs day» — they're focusing the day's work on a muscle group that's fresh, and giving other muscle groups the day off.

Not exact matches

Giving your toddler a chance to try out his muscles will improve strength and coordination, which are instrumental to the development of gross motor skills (the skills that involve using arms, legs, and other large muscle groups).

The group that received whey protein lost around 4 % more weight than the ones given maltodextrin, and they preserved more muscle tissue than the other group.

His cheating, in terms of applying force from a muscle group other than the targeted one is down to the minimum — just enough to perform a given exercise correctly.

As with any other muscle group you should give the arms a good amount of time to rest, especially since they are involved in all other upper body movements such as bench press, rows or pull ups.

A twice daily dietary supplement for 13 weeks containing whey protein, leucine, and vitamin D (20 g whey protein, 3 g total leucine, and 800 IU vitamin D) was given to older (~ 78 years) primarily independent - living sarcopenic adults and resulted in improved chair — stand test time and showed a greater gain in skeletal muscle mass than the control group (and these results were repeated in other studies).

You can work other muscle groups and avoid using your sore muscles as you give them time to recover.

Everyone feels tightness differently though, says Campbell, so this variation can help address any muscle group that's giving you more trouble than others.