Ever taken a look around your gym to see what the people around you do?
Do you ponder whether the workout they are doing will help you accomplish your own physical goals quicker?
Those are a small number of questions to contemplate as you continue reading this, but the fact is there is always a 'better ' lift to do than most of the lifts that you see folk performing at your gymnasium.
For example, today a couple in my gym took it on themselves to do a range of exercises working their body from head to toe, or that is what they assumed.
Their workout began with some dumbbell shoulder shrugs. That exercise targets the trapezius muscles that, if massive enough, might make you look like you haven't got any neck.
On the surface of things that would seem to be a healthy 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 amount of work done is equal to the force times the distance you are moving that force and the quantity of times that you are moving that force. As an 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 big therefore don't have the range that the larger muscle groupings do.
So that 30-pound weight moved 3 inches, ten times, gives us a bunch of 900. The unit of measure at that point is unimportant.
Now let's have a look at an alternative exercise, the military press. This exercise is done with an Olympic bar pressing it from about your chin all 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 might notice that the distance that bar is going to travel is around twenty-four inches or more dependent on your size, and that was done for a sum total of ten 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 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 only one example of a way to see if you're getting the most out of your workout session. Many of us are unconcerned to a couple of the exercises that they choose to do and just do anything that comes to mind. You only have so much energy when you hit the gymnasium floor, make it count and put it towards exercises that will give you the bang for you buck.
Do you ponder whether the workout they are doing will help you accomplish your own physical goals quicker?
Those are a small number of questions to contemplate as you continue reading this, but the fact is there is always a 'better ' lift to do than most of the lifts that you see folk performing at your gymnasium.
For example, today a couple in my gym took it on themselves to do a range of exercises working their body from head to toe, or that is what they assumed.
Their workout began with some dumbbell shoulder shrugs. That exercise targets the trapezius muscles that, if massive enough, might make you look like you haven't got any neck.
On the surface of things that would seem to be a healthy 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 amount of work done is equal to the force times the distance you are moving that force and the quantity of times that you are moving that force. As an 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 big therefore don't have the range that the larger muscle groupings do.
So that 30-pound weight moved 3 inches, ten times, gives us a bunch of 900. The unit of measure at that point is unimportant.
Now let's have a look at an alternative exercise, the military press. This exercise is done with an Olympic bar pressing it from about your chin all 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 might notice that the distance that bar is going to travel is around twenty-four inches or more dependent on your size, and that was done for a sum total of ten 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 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 only one example of a way to see if you're getting the most out of your workout session. Many of us are unconcerned to a couple of the exercises that they choose to do and just do anything that comes to mind. You only have so much energy when you hit the gymnasium floor, make it count and put it towards exercises that will give you the bang for you buck.
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