Sentences with phrase «opposite of the muscle group»

During this stretching technique, a low grade muscular contraction of the antagonist muscle (in this case, the muscle group opposite of the muscle group targeted to receive the stretch) is held for 6 to 15 seconds.

Not exact matches

The exercise and diet group saw gains in mobility and muscle strength and decreases in fat mass three months after the intervention, while those three measures moved in the opposite, undesirable, direction for the other group of men.

Also, for example, when you do a pushing exercise, make sure to immediately follow it with a pulling exercise, so that you can use the time when the previously used muscle group is resting to hit the opposite set of muscles.

When you work the opposite muscle group, almost all the same muscles are engaged, but this time the roles are changed as the antagonist muscle group takes most of the load.

Supersetting antagonising is the pairing of two opposite muscle groups such as chest and back, triceps and biceps and quads and hamstrings.

Training opposite muscle groups optimizes the number of contracting muscles fibers, which in turn increases the weights being lifted and helps with anabolic hormone production.

There are a few reasons of why everyone should try opposite muscle group training at least once:

For example, a lot of the pushing moves or arms in front of you moves have an opposing pulling move that would work the opposite muscle group.

TRX Giant Sets is a 30 minute long workout designed in sets targeting the same or opposite muscles groups and performed in a rapid succession of one another.

Isolation lifts are the opposite of compound lifts which use two or more muscle groups to perform the lift.

While this occurs, we generally underdevelop the muscle groups that are opposite of these muscles.