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Design a Weight Training Routine: Your Playbook
INTRODUCTION Have you ever stood in the gym and felt overwhelmed by the next steps in your quest to build muscle and strength? You’re not alone if it feels like cracking a complex code to create a weight training routine that works. Common questions can bounce around in your head, such as: How many sets? What reps? Which exercises actually work? How often should I even train? […]
Best Biceps Exercises: Long and Short Head EMG Study
Abstract This EMG study examines the effectiveness of five popular biceps exercises—inclined curl, hammer curl, dumbbell curl, preacher curl, and wide-grip cable curl—in selectively activating the long and short heads of the biceps brachii using electromyography (EMG). Despite widespread beliefs about certain exercises targeting specific biceps heads, empirical evidence is often lacking. This research aimed to distinguish between anecdotal claims and scientific fact by analyzing […]
Assessing Readiness: The Hidden Dangers of Drop Jump Tests in Injury Recovery
Assessing Readiness: The Hidden Dangers of Drop Jump Tests in Injury Recovery By Mike Croskery and Heather Grandy, BEng, MASc, Article Summary: This study revealed greater limb asymmetry in an anterior cruciate ligament repair (ACLR) athlete during single-leg drop jumps at 30 cm heights, emphasizing the potential value of proper drop heights for Return to Play assessments (RTP). Differences in Reactive Strength Ratio (RSR), jump […]
Learn How the Hip Stabilizers and Leg Muscles Activate During a Variety of Unilateral Strength Exercises
Check out my article on using EMG and inertial analysis to investigate how the hip stabilizers and leg muscles activate during a wide variety of unilateral movements compared to a bilateral squat. Click on the link below to read more on this topic as featured on Simplifaster.com Examining Unilateral and Bilateral Strength Training Exercises
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Motivating the Adolescent Athlete
Motivation is necessary for developing and performing athletic skills. It is what drives the athlete to successfully acquire a skill through long and arduous practices. Adolescents are influenced by their peers, parents, and the social factors that surround them. Positive reinforcement and encouragement both help youth athletes become motivated to practice and perform well.
1995 Training Review: 1940s-90s Bodybuilding & Legends
Bodybuilding is a unique sport which involves the assessment of a competitor’s overall muscle symmetry, muscularity, and presentation skills in comparison to the other athletes in an appropriate weight or height class. Each contest consists of three rounds. The first round assesses the competitors overall symmetry and muscularity. The second round is the free posing round where the athletes present to the judges a posing routine that emphasizes his or her best body parts as well as their level of conditioning. Round three is the comparison round in which the athletes are compared against one another through a number of compulsory poses. Throughout all three of these rounds the judges are evaluating muscular definition, muscle shape, presentation, muscular symmetry, and other aesthetic qualities of the individual athletes.
Lactic Acid and Fat Burning: Optimize Workouts for Max Fat Loss
You’ve just finished your aerobic workout, you’re breathing hard and heavy, and your legs are weak and are burning like their on fire. ‘That fat is going to be burned up like crazy’ you think to yourself. What you might not know is that you may have just sabotaged your fat-burning quest because of the high lactic acid levels you have generated from your hard workout.
Assessing Readiness: The Hidden Dangers of Drop Jump Tests in Injury Recovery
Assessing Readiness: The Hidden Dangers of Drop Jump Tests in Injury Recovery By Mike Croskery and Heather Grandy, BEng, MASc, Article Summary: This study revealed greater limb asymmetry in an anterior cruciate ligament repair (ACLR) athlete during single-leg drop jumps at 30 cm heights, emphasizing the potential value of proper drop heights for Return to Play assessments (RTP). Differences in Reactive Strength Ratio (RSR), jump […]