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Have you ever taken a look around your gym to see what the people around you do?
Do you question if the workout they do will help you accomplish your own physical goals quicker?
Those are a couple of questions to ponder as you continue reading this, but the fact of the matter is there is always a 'better ' lift to do than almost all of the lifts that you see folks performing at your gym.
As an example, today a couple in my private gym took it on themselves to do a range of exercises working their body from head to toes, or that is what they thought.
Their workout started with some dumbbell shoulder shrugs. That exercise targets the trapezius muscles that, if large enough, might make you appear as if you haven't got any neck.
On the surface of things that would appear to be a healthy 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 is equal to the force times the distance you are 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 thus don't have the range that the larger muscle groups do.
So that 30-pound weight moved three inches, ten times, gives us a number of 900. The unit of measure at that point is unimportant.
Now lets take a look at an alternative exercise, the army press. This exercising is done with an Olympic bar pressing it from about your jaw all the way above your head till your arms about completely extended.
For this exercise we only used 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 go is around twenty-four inches or more depending on your size, and that was done for a sum total of 10 repetitions. So 45-pounds, times 24-inches, times ten repetitions gives us a bunch of 10,800- again the unit of measure is irrelevant. It only becomes important if we were to work out 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 best out of your workout . Many people are oblivious to a couple 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 toward exercises which will give you the bang for you buck.
Do you question if the workout they do will help you accomplish your own physical goals quicker?
Those are a couple of questions to ponder as you continue reading this, but the fact of the matter is there is always a 'better ' lift to do than almost all of the lifts that you see folks performing at your gym.
As an example, today a couple in my private gym took it on themselves to do a range of exercises working their body from head to toes, or that is what they thought.
Their workout started with some dumbbell shoulder shrugs. That exercise targets the trapezius muscles that, if large enough, might make you appear as if you haven't got any neck.
On the surface of things that would appear to be a healthy 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 is equal to the force times the distance you are 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 thus don't have the range that the larger muscle groups do.
So that 30-pound weight moved three inches, ten times, gives us a number of 900. The unit of measure at that point is unimportant.
Now lets take a look at an alternative exercise, the army press. This exercising is done with an Olympic bar pressing it from about your jaw all the way above your head till your arms about completely extended.
For this exercise we only used 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 go is around twenty-four inches or more depending on your size, and that was done for a sum total of 10 repetitions. So 45-pounds, times 24-inches, times ten repetitions gives us a bunch of 10,800- again the unit of measure is irrelevant. It only becomes important if we were to work out 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 best out of your workout . Many people are oblivious to a couple 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 toward exercises which will give you the bang for you buck.
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