Have you ever taken a look around your gym to see what the people around you do?
Do you wonder if the workout they do will help you accomplish your own physical goals faster?
Those are a number of questions to ponder as you continue to read this, but the fact is there is always a 'better ' lift to do than the majority of the lifts that you see people performing at your gym.
As an example, today a couple in my own gym took it on themselves to do a selection of exercises working their body from head to toe, or that's what they believed.
Their workout started with some dumbbell shoulder shrugs. That exercise targets the trapezius muscles that, if big enough, might make you appear like you haven't got any neck.
On the surface of things that would appear to be a handy exercise to do, but if you dig a bit 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 equals the force times the distance you're moving that force and the quantity of times that you're moving that force. As an example, if you were going to use 30-pound dumbbells you might move that weight a total of 3 inches maximum. The trapezius muscles aren't that large so do not have the range the larger muscle groupings do.
So that 30-pound weight moved three inches, 10 times, gives us a considerable number of 9 hundred. The unit of measure at this point is unimportant.
Now let's have a look at an alternative exercise, the military 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 completely extended.
For this exercise we only utilised the weight of the bar which is 45-pounds. If you make the motion as if you were performing the exercise you might notice the distance that bar is going to go is around twenty-four inches or even 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 a number of 10,800- again the unit of measure is irrelevant. It only becomes applicable if we were to work out that number into calories burned.
On the surface, doing the army press was 12 times better than doing a dumbbell shrug, and that was with only the 45-pound bar.
This is one example of a way to see if you're getting the best from your workout session. Many of us are oblivious to a couple of the exercises that they opt to do and just do anything that suggests itself. You only have so much energy when you hit the gym floor, make it count and put it towards exercises that may give you the bang for you buck.
Do you wonder if the workout they do will help you accomplish your own physical goals faster?
Those are a number of questions to ponder as you continue to read this, but the fact is there is always a 'better ' lift to do than the majority of the lifts that you see people performing at your gym.
As an example, today a couple in my own gym took it on themselves to do a selection of exercises working their body from head to toe, or that's what they believed.
Their workout started with some dumbbell shoulder shrugs. That exercise targets the trapezius muscles that, if big enough, might make you appear like you haven't got any neck.
On the surface of things that would appear to be a handy exercise to do, but if you dig a bit 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 equals the force times the distance you're moving that force and the quantity of times that you're moving that force. As an example, if you were going to use 30-pound dumbbells you might move that weight a total of 3 inches maximum. The trapezius muscles aren't that large so do not have the range the larger muscle groupings do.
So that 30-pound weight moved three inches, 10 times, gives us a considerable number of 9 hundred. The unit of measure at this point is unimportant.
Now let's have a look at an alternative exercise, the military 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 completely extended.
For this exercise we only utilised the weight of the bar which is 45-pounds. If you make the motion as if you were performing the exercise you might notice the distance that bar is going to go is around twenty-four inches or even 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 a number of 10,800- again the unit of measure is irrelevant. It only becomes applicable if we were to work out that number into calories burned.
On the surface, doing the army press was 12 times better than doing a dumbbell shrug, and that was with only the 45-pound bar.
This is one example of a way to see if you're getting the best from your workout session. Many of us are oblivious to a couple of the exercises that they opt to do and just do anything that suggests itself. You only have so much energy when you hit the gym floor, make it count and put it towards exercises that may give you the bang for you buck.
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