Have you ever taken a look round your gym to see what the people around you do?
Do you wonder if the workout they are doing will help you get to your own physical goals faster?
Those are a couple of questions to contemplate as you continue reading this, but the fact is there is almost always a 'better ' lift to do than most of the lifts that you see folks performing at your gym.
For example, today a pair in my private gym took it on themselves to do a selection of exercises working their body from head to toe, or that's 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 have no neck.
On the surface of things that would appear to be a healthy 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 equals the force times the distance that you are moving that force and the amount of times that you are moving that force. For example, if one was to use 30-pound dumbbells you may move that weight an overall total of three inches maximum. The trapezius muscles aren't that large so do not have the range the larger muscle groups do.
So that 30-pound weight moved 3 inches, ten times, gives us a bunch of 900. The unit of measure at this point is irrelevant.
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 jaw all the way above your head until your arms about fully 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 the distance that bar is going to go is around 24 inches or even more depending on your size, which was done for a sum total of ten repetitions. So 45-pounds, times 24-inches, times ten repetitions gives us several 10,800- again the unit of measure is irrelevant. It only becomes relevant if we were to calculate 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 one way to see if you're getting the best from your workout . Many of us are oblivious to some of the exercises that they opt 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 toward exercises that will give you the bang for you buck.
Do you wonder if the workout they are doing will help you get to your own physical goals faster?
Those are a couple of questions to contemplate as you continue reading this, but the fact is there is almost always a 'better ' lift to do than most of the lifts that you see folks performing at your gym.
For example, today a pair in my private gym took it on themselves to do a selection of exercises working their body from head to toe, or that's 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 have no neck.
On the surface of things that would appear to be a healthy 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 equals the force times the distance that you are moving that force and the amount of times that you are moving that force. For example, if one was to use 30-pound dumbbells you may move that weight an overall total of three inches maximum. The trapezius muscles aren't that large so do not have the range the larger muscle groups do.
So that 30-pound weight moved 3 inches, ten times, gives us a bunch of 900. The unit of measure at this point is irrelevant.
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 jaw all the way above your head until your arms about fully 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 the distance that bar is going to go is around 24 inches or even more depending on your size, which was done for a sum total of ten repetitions. So 45-pounds, times 24-inches, times ten repetitions gives us several 10,800- again the unit of measure is irrelevant. It only becomes relevant if we were to calculate 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 one way to see if you're getting the best from your workout . Many of us are oblivious to some of the exercises that they opt 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 toward exercises that will give you the bang for you buck.
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