EXERCISE SCIENCE for BEGINNERS (some fun) . PROGRESSIVE RESISTANCE TRAINING. Find something heavy. Lift it. Keep lifting it. When it’s not heavy any more, find something heavier and lift that. Repeat. . BEEP TEST. 2 to 10 minutes of pain. Picture a mouse doing laps of a shoe box. . BMI. An out-dated equation involving your weight and height. . LACTATE THRESHOLD. The point when you feel like your legs (or some other muscle group) might actually explode. . ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE. What some bloke (or girl) saw. Allegedly. . DUMBBELL. A weight with a handle. . KETTLEBELL. See above. . TREADMILL. An expensive machine for running on the spot. . ANATOMY. Where all your bits are in relation to each other. . PHYSIOLOGY. How all your bits work together. . ELBOW FLEXION. Picking up your beer. Or coffee. . ELBOW EXTENSION. Putting it back down. . FLEXIBILITY. How bendy you are. Or aren’t. . INTERNAL ROTATION (of the shoulder). Scratching your lower back. . EXTERNAL ROTATION (of the shoulder). Scratching the back of your head. . VO2 MAX TEST. Intense pain on a treadmill. Or bike. How much oxygen you can transport and use during incremental exercise. . BIOLOGICAL AGE. How ‘old’ your body is (from a functional perspective). . MESOMORPH. The Rock. Arnie. Sly. Pink. . ECTOMORPH. Mick Jagger. Nicole Kidman. . ENDOMORPH. John Candy (RIP). Mellissa McCarthy. . MUSCULAR POWER. How hard you can punch me in the face. . MUSCULAR ENDURANCE. How many times you can punch me in the face in ten three-minute rounds. . STRENGTH. Your ability to push me around the ring. . MAINTENANCE TRAINING. Doing (essentially) the same workout over and over - what most people do. . PROGRESSIVE TRAINING. What they should do. :)
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 03:14:00 +0000
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