The technique is performed by slowing the rep down to from 5 seconds until 10 seconds, instead of what
most traditional weight training methods involve doing 2 seconds up and 2 seconds down.
Just look at any boxer or mixed martial artist and it's easy to see that jumping rope, a fundamental exercise in boxing and MMA, develops lean, mean fighting machines (in combination
with traditional weight training).
«Although some of our program is derived from ballet training, we also include the most effective aspects
of traditional weight training, yoga, and Pilates to create a well - balanced program appropriate for every fitness background,» she says.
It doesn't help that some unscrupulous folks in the fitness industry promote the idea that
traditional weight training leads to a «bulky» body in an effort to steer consumers to their fad programs.
The best example for this is sled training, which lacks a lengthening, eccentric muscle motion that's mainly responsible for tissue damage, thereby resulting with lower creatine kinase (the key marker of muscle damage) levels than
traditional weight training.
Similar to
traditional weight training, effective kettlebell training requires a balanced approach and an emphasis on the basic compound drill that provide the most bang for the buck.
As you start to advance you'll be using variations of those basics that requires more joint ranges of motion and ultimately loading your connective tissue (tendons and ligaments etc) more than
traditional weight training as you use more isometric (static) hold in Calisthenics.
In
the traditional weight training, forced sets are also known as assisted sets.
Blast fat fast with circuit training, a form of high - intensity interval training (HIIT) that burns significantly more calories than
traditional weight training.
You can choose to integrate some of these alternative training techniques with your weight training routines on the same day, as alternative workouts on separate days of the week, or even as separate training cycles where you try some of these techniques for several weeks at a time before cycling back to
a traditional weight training workout.