Maximize Your Workout

By Philip Sergey


Ever taken a look around your gymnasium to see what the people around you do?

Do you wonder if the workout they do will help you get to your own physical goals quicker?

Those are a number of questions to contemplate as you continue reading this, but the fact of the situation is there is a 'better ' lift to do than the majority of the lifts that you see people performing at your gymnasium.

As an example, today a pair in my private gym took it on themselves to do a range of exercises working their body from top to bottom, or that is what they believed.

Their workout began with some dumbbell shoulder shrugs. That exercise targets the trapezius muscles that, if big enough, might make you look like you have no neck.

On the surface of things that would appear to be a handy exercise to do, but if you dig a little deeper you will find that exercise does little in the way of helping you burn even the most minute of calories.

Let us look at it mathematically. The quantity of work done is equal to the force times the distance you are moving that force and the quantity of times that you're moving that force. For example, if you were to use 30-pound dumbbells you may move that weight a total of 3 inches maximum. The trapezius muscles are not that large so do not have the range the bigger muscle groups do.

So that 30-pound weight moved three inches, ten times, gives us a number of 900. The unit of measure at that point is irrelevant.

Now let's have a look at an alternative exercise, the army press. This exercising is done with an Olympic bar pressing it from about your chin all the way above your head until your arms about absolutely extended.

For this exercise we only employed the weight of the bar which is 45-pounds. If you make the motion as if you were performing the exercise you might notice that the distance that bar is going to travel is around twenty-four inches or even more depending on your size, which was done for a sum total of 10 repetitions. So 45-pounds, times 24-inches, times ten repetitions gives us a number of 10,800- again the unit of measure is unimportant. It only becomes important if we were to work out that number into calories burned.

On the surface, doing the military press was twelve times more effective than doing a dumbbell shrug, and that was with only the 45-pound bar.

This is just one example of a method to see if you're getting the best from your workout . Many people are oblivious to a couple of the exercises that they decide to do and just do anything that is evoked. You only have so much energy when you hit the gymnasium floor, make it count and put it toward exercises that will give you the bang for you buck.




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