Sentences with phrase «low number of repetitions»

To accomplish this you should concentrate on several things: Compound exercises, heavy weights, lower number of repetitions AND probably the most important rule — weight progression.

When you strength train with very heavy weights for low numbers of repetitions, you build incredibly DENSE, tight muscle.

Not exact matches

Whether HIIT workouts at lower intensities also benefit from a low number of sprint repetitions is not yet known.

A powerbuilding routine incorporates number of repetitions, high enough to produce hypertrophy, but still low enough to produce strength gains too.

What this means is that while exercising, the person should lower the number or repetitions being lifted, lift slowly and increase the amount of weight that is being lifted.

As you inhale, lower the arm back down to the starting position and repeat for the number of desired repetitions, then switch arms and perform the exercise with the right arm.

You can cut short the number of repetitions, but never half - ass a rep.. If you can only do five or six pull ups, bring a chair over to the bar, hop up above the bar and lower yourself down.

By using a lighter weight, higher repetitions, and varying the repetition duration, you can maintain the stimulus for a prolonged period of time and theoretically, you should be able to expend more energy than just pumping out a lower number of reps with high volume training.

But, due to the nature of the lift, a fast explosive movement, followed by an inter-serial rest, combined with a low number of total repetitions, the time under tension is quite low to maximize muscular growth.

Most often, you will do more exercises within one Strength training workout and the total number of repetitions per exercise would be lower.