Have you ever taken a look round your gym to see what the people around you are doing?
Do you question if the workout they do will help you get to your own physical goals faster?
Those are a couple of inquiries to ponder as you continue reading this, but the fact is there is always a 'better ' lift to do than almost all of the lifts that you see people performing at your gymnasium.
For instance, today a couple in my gymnasium took it upon themselves to do a variety of exercises working their body from head to toe, or that is what they thought.
Their workout began with some dumbbell shoulder shrugs. That exercise targets the trapezius muscles that, if big enough, might make you appear like you have no neck.
On the surface of things that would appear to be a handy exercise to do, but if you dig slightly deeper you'll 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 amount of work done is equal to the force times the distance that you are moving that force and the amount of times you are moving that force. For example, if you were going to use 30-pound dumbbells you may move that weight a total of 3 inches maximum. The trapezius muscles are not that large thus don't have the range that the bigger muscles do.
So that 30-pound weight moved 3 inches, ten times, gives us a number of nine hundred. The unit of measure at that point is irrelevant.
Now lets take a look at an alternative exercise, the military press. This exercising is done with an Olympic bar pressing it from about your jaw all of the way above your head until your arms about fully 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 could notice the distance that bar is going to go is around twenty-four inches or more depending on your size, and it was done for a total of ten repetitions. So 45-pounds, times 24-inches, times 10 repetitions gives us several 10,800- again the unit of measure is irrelevant. It only becomes relevant if we were to calculate that number into calories burned.
On the surface, doing the military press was 12 times more effective than doing a dumbbell shrug, and that was with only the 45-pound bar.
This is just one example of one way to see if you are getting the best from your exercise session. Many of us are insensible to a few 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 towards exercises which will give you the bang for you buck.
Do you question if the workout they do will help you get to your own physical goals faster?
Those are a couple of inquiries to ponder as you continue reading this, but the fact is there is always a 'better ' lift to do than almost all of the lifts that you see people performing at your gymnasium.
For instance, today a couple in my gymnasium took it upon themselves to do a variety of exercises working their body from head to toe, or that is what they thought.
Their workout began with some dumbbell shoulder shrugs. That exercise targets the trapezius muscles that, if big enough, might make you appear like you have no neck.
On the surface of things that would appear to be a handy exercise to do, but if you dig slightly deeper you'll 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 amount of work done is equal to the force times the distance that you are moving that force and the amount of times you are moving that force. For example, if you were going to use 30-pound dumbbells you may move that weight a total of 3 inches maximum. The trapezius muscles are not that large thus don't have the range that the bigger muscles do.
So that 30-pound weight moved 3 inches, ten times, gives us a number of nine hundred. The unit of measure at that point is irrelevant.
Now lets take a look at an alternative exercise, the military press. This exercising is done with an Olympic bar pressing it from about your jaw all of the way above your head until your arms about fully 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 could notice the distance that bar is going to go is around twenty-four inches or more depending on your size, and it was done for a total of ten repetitions. So 45-pounds, times 24-inches, times 10 repetitions gives us several 10,800- again the unit of measure is irrelevant. It only becomes relevant if we were to calculate that number into calories burned.
On the surface, doing the military press was 12 times more effective than doing a dumbbell shrug, and that was with only the 45-pound bar.
This is just one example of one way to see if you are getting the best from your exercise session. Many of us are insensible to a few 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 towards exercises which will give you the bang for you buck.
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