Have you ever taken a look around your gymnasium 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 number of questions to ponder as you continue to read this, but the fact of the situation is there is a 'better ' lift to do than the majority of the lifts that you see folks performing at your gym.
As an example, 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 believed.
Their workout began with some dumbbell shoulder shrugs. That exercise targets the trapezius muscles that, if large enough, might make you appear as if you have no neck.
On the surface of things that would seem 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 amount of work done is the same as the force times the distance you are moving that force and the amount of times that you're moving that force. For example, if you were to use 30-pound dumbbells you might move that weight a sum total of 3 inches maximum. The trapezius muscles are not that big thus don't have the range that the bigger muscle groupings do.
So that 30-pound weight moved three inches, 10 times, gives us a considerable number of nine hundred. The unit of measure at this point is irrelevant.
Now lets take a look at an alternative exercise, the military press. This exercise is done with an Olympic bar pressing it from about your jaw all of the way above your head till your arms about completely 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 that the distance that bar is going to go is around twenty-four inches or 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 irrelevant. It only becomes applicable if we were to calculate 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 method to see if you are getting the most out of your workout session. Many individuals are oblivious to some of the exercises that they choose to do and just do anything that suggests itself. 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 number of questions to ponder as you continue to read this, but the fact of the situation is there is a 'better ' lift to do than the majority of the lifts that you see folks performing at your gym.
As an example, 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 believed.
Their workout began with some dumbbell shoulder shrugs. That exercise targets the trapezius muscles that, if large enough, might make you appear as if you have no neck.
On the surface of things that would seem 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 amount of work done is the same as the force times the distance you are moving that force and the amount of times that you're moving that force. For example, if you were to use 30-pound dumbbells you might move that weight a sum total of 3 inches maximum. The trapezius muscles are not that big thus don't have the range that the bigger muscle groupings do.
So that 30-pound weight moved three inches, 10 times, gives us a considerable number of nine hundred. The unit of measure at this point is irrelevant.
Now lets take a look at an alternative exercise, the military press. This exercise is done with an Olympic bar pressing it from about your jaw all of the way above your head till your arms about completely 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 that the distance that bar is going to go is around twenty-four inches or 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 irrelevant. It only becomes applicable if we were to calculate 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 method to see if you are getting the most out of your workout session. Many individuals are oblivious to some of the exercises that they choose to do and just do anything that suggests itself. 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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