Sentences with phrase «uses other muscle groups»

You want to use an isolation exercise because any exercise that uses any other muscle groups will skew the results.

This is a great chest exercise but it also uses other muscle groups such as your triceps and deltoids (shoulders), your core will also be working to keep you from dipping your back.

The further you roll it out, the more you train your abs and use other muscles groups.

It works the hamstrings very strongly, using other muscle groups to push the hams hard.

Not exact matches

In addition to the abdominals, other muscle groups used include those in the back, chest, shoulders, and neck.

There is no central program design theory other than to use exercises involving large muscle groups for maximal reps, weight, and speed.

Giving your toddler a chance to try out his muscles will improve strength and coordination, which are instrumental to the development of gross motor skills (the skills that involve using arms, legs, and other large muscle groups).

Fine motor skills are those that require the ability to use and coordinate small muscle groups and are important for writing, shoe - tying, buttoning, and zipping, among other things.

These and other activities use large muscle groups and require coordination and strength.

These poses stretch the main muscle groups used during most activities and are trouble spots for most athletes but remember to adapt the yoga practice to the athlete and not the other way around.

When we get more tense, we tend to not to engage that as well and invoke other muscle groups, which we can also use, but the diaphragm is the main one we should focus on and be mindful of.

You'll use your core to stabilise yourself, so you'll strengthen and tone your midsection, with the ancillary benefit of honing other muscle groups.

This type of supersets refers to performing two exercises that work opposing muscle groups (while one contracts, the other relaxes), such as chest and back or biceps and triceps, which allows using a higher rep range or heavier weights.

If any of these muscle groups are weak or do not activate, or if the athlete has poor technique, other muscles must be used to support the movement.

In this article, Mark Rippetoe makes the great point that using your muscles in the way they were intended (the back muscles are meant to protect your spine), gradually increasing weight overtime, while using other related muscle groups so that no one muscle or joint is stressed beyond its capacity, is the safest way to get stronger.

Physical therapy programs to strengthen core muscle groups that support the low back, improve mobility and flexibility, and promote proper positioning and posture are often used in combinations with other interventions.

This is because exercises like squats and deadlifts use more muscle groups under a heavy load than almost any other weight bearing exercises known to man.

Similar to the pre-exhaust, again using the same muscle group, but this time you work the other way around so you would do a compound exercise first followed by an isolated exercise.

Compounds lifts incorporate any exercise that uses more than one muscle group or joint action within its movement, however, there are bigger or more popular ones than others.

Aim to complete these exercises at least 2 times per week, but ensure you leave a day between to rest to allow your muscles to recover, you can still work other muscle groups that you have not used.

This is a flawed theory as building strong muscular abs requires exactly the same methodology as other muscle groups and therefore you need to train them using the same 3 - 4 sets of 3 - 4 exercises of 6 - 10 repetitions.

Machines on the other hand, are used for isolating specific muscle groups.

Specifically, he highlights rowing's use of the «posterior chain», a huge group of muscles on the posterior side of the body (that includes muscles that support the spine and back and the hamstring muscles among others), in being particularly effective in helping achieve a variety of training objectives.

Although I had no trouble using the Grid on all the major muscle groups I use a traditional foam roller on, it was a tight fit across my upper back and shoulders, and I suspect others will have similar issues.

You can work other muscle groups and avoid using your sore muscles as you give them time to recover.

When starting up, begin with the assisted version to build strength and promote muscular development (perform other much easier exercises that build all the necessary muscle groups that are used during pull - up).

When you do a movement with a machine it will usually isolate that one muscle group that you are exercising, if you use free weights it will bring other muscles into play.

And if you are able to bench more weight, you increase the strain placed on your chest and your other primary muscle groups being used — which leads to great upper - body development.

Training commonly uses the technique of progressively increasing the force output of the muscle through incremental increases of weight, elastic tension or other resistance, and uses a variety of exercises and types of training equipment to target specific muscle groups.

Although traditionally only deadlift and lunges are used for training the hip extensors (medial and lateral hamstrings, gluteus maximus, and adductor magnus), there is evidence that some exercises emphasize each of these muscle groups to a different extent, and also that some exercises target different regions within each of the muscles more than others.

DO NOT USE IN ANY OTHER MUSCLE GROUP.