Sentences with phrase «weak muscle groups»

This is where working with a trainer can come in handy, as there are a number of important factors we consider in program design — such as muscular endurance, progression, targeting weak muscle groups and planning periodisation.

If you want to have a well balanced physique, you need to give every muscle group the attention it deserves — and prioritize the weak muscle groups.

Schedule an additional day to hit the weak muscle groups.

It's ideal for building up some weaker muscle groups that are holding back your progress.

But for some people, this may not be enough, so one more day of training is recommended in which weaker muscle groups could be given more stimulus to catch up.

If this is the case, then you need to bring the weaker muscle groups up to par with the stronger ones.

This «feeder» method works for bodybuilding goals or for bringing up a weak muscle group that's holding back a big lift.

Not exact matches

In most people, both of these small muscle groups are relatively weak and susceptible to injury, and they're a major contributor to back pain.

It is the only muscle of the group which crosses the hip joint and is a powerful knee extensor when the hip is extended, but is weak when the hip is flexed.

Since one - arm presses give you the ability to train each side of the body individually, they can easily expose the weakest links in your shoulders and help you strengthen every muscle of this large muscle group.

By implementing this method, we hypertarget each muscle group to ensure all weak areas are addressed and nothing gets overlooked.

What you'll notice in these compensations is that they're almost always paired muscles groups, meaning that the agonist (the one responsible for the action in the compensation) is tight and the antagonist (the opposing muscle group) is weak.

Isolating muscle groups or weak spots is very hard to do with bodyweight exercises.

The group of muscles at the front of the hip (hip flexors) tends to become both short & weak.

The second advantage of using dumbbells instead of a bar is that they reduce the tendency of stronger muscle groups to compensate for weaker ones.

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.

You may not even know you have a weak spot until you attempt an exercise that relies heavily on that muscle group.

Part of the reason why one muscle group may bear excessive load is because another muscle group may be too weak or inactive to complete the movement properly.

This strengthens small muscles in charge of fine movement patterns, muscles that are often made weak when bigger muscle groups take over (much like in the case of an athlete).

Of course, you may have one particular muscle group that is weaker and needs more training to develop, but you should have a total core training.

When this happens, muscles become strong and shortened around the joints while opposing muscle groups become weak and overstretched.

This dumbbell workout targets muscle groups that are commonly weak among women, including the chest, back and core.