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 get to your own physical goals quicker?
Those are a couple of questions to ponder as you keep reading this, but the fact of the situation is there is always a 'better ' lift to do than almost all of the lifts that you see folk performing at your gymnasium.
For example, today a couple in my private gymnasium took it upon themselves to do a selection of exercises working their body from head to toes, or that is what they assumed.
Their workout started with some dumbbell shoulder shrugs. That exercise targets the trapezius muscles that, if large enough, might make you appear like you haven't got any neck.
On the surface of things that would seem to be a handy exercise to do, but if you dig a bit 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 equals the force times the distance you're moving that force and the amount of times you are moving that force. As an example, if one was to use 30-pound dumbbells you may move that weight an overall total of 3 inches maximum. The trapezius muscles aren't that massive therefore don't have the range that the larger muscle groups do.
So that 30-pound weight moved 3 inches, 10 times, gives us a number of 9 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 chin all the way above your head till 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 24 inches or more dependent on your size, and that was done for a total of ten repetitions. So 45-pounds, times 24-inches, times ten repetitions gives us a bunch of 10,800- again the unit of measure is unimportant. It only becomes relevant if we were to work out that number into calories burned.
On the surface, doing the army press was twelve times better than doing a dumbbell shrug, and that was with only the 45-pound bar.
This is just one example of a way to see if you are getting the best out of your exercise session. Many people are unconcerned to a few of the exercises that they choose to do and just do anything that is evoked. 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 get to your own physical goals quicker?
Those are a couple of questions to ponder as you keep reading this, but the fact of the situation is there is always a 'better ' lift to do than almost all of the lifts that you see folk performing at your gymnasium.
For example, today a couple in my private gymnasium took it upon themselves to do a selection of exercises working their body from head to toes, or that is what they assumed.
Their workout started with some dumbbell shoulder shrugs. That exercise targets the trapezius muscles that, if large enough, might make you appear like you haven't got any neck.
On the surface of things that would seem to be a handy exercise to do, but if you dig a bit 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 equals the force times the distance you're moving that force and the amount of times you are moving that force. As an example, if one was to use 30-pound dumbbells you may move that weight an overall total of 3 inches maximum. The trapezius muscles aren't that massive therefore don't have the range that the larger muscle groups do.
So that 30-pound weight moved 3 inches, 10 times, gives us a number of 9 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 chin all the way above your head till 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 24 inches or more dependent on your size, and that was done for a total of ten repetitions. So 45-pounds, times 24-inches, times ten repetitions gives us a bunch of 10,800- again the unit of measure is unimportant. It only becomes relevant if we were to work out that number into calories burned.
On the surface, doing the army press was twelve times better than doing a dumbbell shrug, and that was with only the 45-pound bar.
This is just one example of a way to see if you are getting the best out of your exercise session. Many people are unconcerned to a few of the exercises that they choose to do and just do anything that is evoked. 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.
