Sentences with phrase «lot more muscle groups»

In turn, this activates a lot more muscle groups, which has the effect of burning more calories.

In all the exercises above, a lot more muscle groups are involved instead of just the abdominals.

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Exercises which involve multiple groups of muscle and that get the heart pumping, expend a lot more calories than isolation movements like sit - ups or crunches.

The lack of a control group makes the task of determining the effect of creatine on muscle strength and mass in regards to taking it before or after exercising a lot more difficult.

However, if you think you are really up to the arduous task of achieving a great body, the training of four or five days weekly is the more optimal regimen since it will allow you to have a lot shorter and harder training sessions and get enough training volume per week for each of the bigger muscle groups.

Additionally, when training all muscle groups in the same workout session our bodies burn a lot more calories and we can put increased metabolic demands on the body, thus promoting greater fat loss.

It's not really a surprise that this is the way a lot of people approach strength training, as you could quickly be led to believe from reading muscle magazines and fitness blogs that «more is better» and that you should do a wide range of exercises every workout, «confuse the muscle» by regularly changing your workout routine, and completely exhaust each major muscle group with 20 + sets once a week.