Sentences with phrase «uses isometric holds»

And the second part, seated underhand pass, uses isometric holds to promote core strength and stability.

Not exact matches

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The isometric hold challenges you to use every inch of your abdominals, from your rectus abdominis to your obliques, to stay stabilized.

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.

Because it is a static hold that uses isometric contraction to maintain the position it is possible to become very proficient at this exercise in a very short period of time and I recommend it to anyone trying to develop good core strength before moving on to other exercise such as the Lalanne push up or the dragon flag.

The barre is used as a prop to balance while focusing on isometric strength training (holding your body still while you contract a specific set of muscles), combined with high reps of small range - of - motion movements.

Class begins with a warm - up in the centre floor, followed by upper body work using light weights, high repetitions and isometric holds.

A bent arm hang is a little more difficult, since it involves supporting your bodyweight with a 90 degree hold, using all muscles in the arms as one unit in an isometric stance.

Planking exercise was used as the control condition because of the similarities in isometric holds between foam rolling and planking.