Weight training

I decided to focus my attention on rehabilitation and began a rigorous weight-training program to improve my knee strength. The weight room is a great environment to not only build strength, but it serves as a sanctuary helping me keep my mind off of football. While working out and rehabilitating my knees, I enjoy listening to music for motivation. I found that other students also found solace in the weight room for training and rehabilitation. It was then that I decided to organize a club, a…

So, you are still a hold-out. Despite all that is written positively about weight training for seniors, you still feel it will be of little use to you. You haven’t trained in years, or perhaps ever, so why start now, you say. Well, if I didn’t convince you in my previous columns, give me one more chance. Recently, the Mayo Clinic conducted a fitness test on 72 healthy but inactive men and women volunteers. Part of the group was under 30 while the rest was over 64. Baseline measures were…

Most agree that weight training is beneficial and has many positive outcomes for those who do it, however, done wrong, it can be more detrimental to one’s health than no exercise at all. Working out can be a very complex activity and will injure inexperienced participants that exercise without knowing what they are doing. Often, it’s the young men that try to impress someone by lifting more than they can handle and end up pulling a muscle or throwing their back out. Back in the day, exercise was…

Designing a weight gain plan to create muscle is not hard in case you have all of the items into the problem. The thing is, most of the people have no idea of what those items are. Therefore today we will talk about the way to build a great weight gain plan that will have you increasing about two lbs in one week or even more. Whenever 2 lbs a week doesn 't sound like a whole lot to you, consider this: Your body can only naturally produce two pounds of muscle mass each week without the need for…

The drop-set training system is a technique in which the participant performs a resistance training exercise to muscle failure, reduces the weight, and then continues with the exercise for an additional number of repetitions. Within one set, the participant “drops” weight several times (Clark, 2014). This method of training is considered an advanced technique done by many experienced bodybuilders (Id). The extent of weight drop does not appear to be agreed upon. The Clark text (Id) mentions…

As almost every person finds a role-model during their life, I found mine in the odd place of an overcrowded weight-training room. Cindy Henry has worked at St. Francis as a personal trainer for teenagers involved in a variety of sports. Her physique is very broad due to her frequent participation in national weightlifting competitions. A blonde bob cut long enough to be slicked into a short mohawk is her preferred look, along with loose fitness pants with an Athletic Republic shirt, gum in her…

A Strength Training Program is Much Different Than A Bodybuilding Program. In order to setup a proper strength training routine, you need to understand how a muscle gets stronger. If you fail to understand the physiology behind getting stronger, you will put together a sub-optimal strength training program. My goal in this short article is to explain the differences between bodybuilding and gaining strength. How a Bodybuilding Program Works. Bodybuilding involves breaking down a muscle. This…

seriously knows the meaning of intensity. It is the trainer against the weights with only two possible outcomes: complete the lift or fail. As the trainer makes there way to the bar they began to prepare themselves for there final bench press, the real deal, the pump to the iron, the best of the set, and they know what needs to happen to complete this exercise. The trainer’s adrenaline is rushing as they begin to prepare to un-rack the weight, slowly lower the bar to their chest, and extend…

Strength today is thought of having big biceps, six-pack abs and the ability to outmuscle anything when encountered with a problem. When the word strength comes up in conversation, people think that it means physical fitness. The definition of strength, however, goes far deeper than just the physical aspects. Strength is taking the time to study for the ACT and passing with an excellent score. Strength is willingly taking the blow for someone else’s mistake. Strength is holding back tears for…

Overview YD strength training center is a commercial facility founded by Dr.Zheng YuanDian, PT, DPT, PhD, MPH, MBA, SCS, CCS, CSCS*D, RCEP, FATPA, FNSCA, FACSM where we welcome people from all levels who wants to improve their strength by doing weightlifting, powerlifting or any other kinds of resistance training. This is a training-camp like facility rather than a traditional fitness room; this means we do not have any cardio machine or weight machine. When more and more traditional fitness…