Sentences with phrase «weight against gravity»

Offering more than 60 different exercises, the TG 1100 works by making you lift a percentage of your body weight against gravity, making the resistance smooth and fluid.

And Tiktaalik's lungs, which evolved from the air bladders fish use for respiration and buoyancy control, are housed in a sturdy overlapping rib cage, the better to buttress the animal's weight against gravity.

This creates that key difference in air pressure that supports the plane's weight against gravity.

We are products of our environment, our bodies are actually the result of the need to lift free weights against gravity - that is what they are specifically designed and specialized to do.

When you are lowering the weights towards the floor move slowly and control the weights against gravity.

Not exact matches

Fuel composes nearly 90 percent of a rocket's weight, and taking off against the pull of Earth's gravity requires an amount of thrust many times greater than what's required on the moon.

In the first few weeks of life just moving the weight of the head, arms and legs against gravity is an important motor milestone.

The energy released supports the stars against the crushing weight of their own gravity and, as a handy byproduct, provides the warmth and light necessary for life on any orbiting planets.

Both aliens are short, about 1 foot (30 centimeters) tall, with thick limbs to support their weight against the immense gravity.

Doing an inverted push - up — either with your legs elevated or in a handstand position (with feet against a wall)-- can mimic lifting a weight thanks to the added challenge of gravity, says Theodore.

When performing the side laterals the medial deltoid heads are fighting against gravity getting the weight upwards.

The skin of the sole of the foot, as well as all the free nerve endings in the richly - innervated plantar fascia, send a lot of data to your brain regarding your weight distribution which in turn allows our bodies to resists against gravity efficiently.

Since that time all living creatures have been doing one thing: lifting their body weights and free weight objects against the force of gravity.

So working extension reinforces our neutral spine posture, strengthening against the effects of gravity, weight, and laziness.

Any exercise bearing weights can build bone and muscle because such activities force the body to work against gravity.

Weight bearing exercise is anything that works against gravity.

the positive or concentric phase, in which the weight moves AGAINST the force of gravity (in other words, «lifting» the weight)

He says that although body does not know what kind of resistance it is working against -LCB- weather its free weight s or machines -RCB- you will see your biggest muscle gains by overcoming the pull of gravity and working in multiple planes -LCB- unlike machines which work only in one plane -RCB-.

For example, doing a single arm shoulder press forces the body to remain tall and straight against the gravity force of an offload weight.

The weight due to gravity stays the same over the whole of the rep, while inertia works against us while we are accelerating the barbell in the first part of the concentric phase, and then helps us out (called momentum) in the later part.

Don't just lower the weight as you would in a typical rep.. You must ACTIVELY FIGHT GRAVITY by pushing (or pulling, depending on the exercise) as hard as you can against the weight.

To sustain this V - shape, your muscles must hold the weight of your torso and legs up against the pull of gravity.

The best exercise for your bones is the weight - bearing kind, which forces you to work against gravity.

Working against the iM is its weight: At just under 3,000 pounds, 137 hp is a somewhat meager amount of power to battle the forces of gravity.