![]() The opposite of eccentric…so the phase of an exercise where you raise the weight up and can squeeze the muscle the most. For example, the eccentric phase of a bicep curl is when you’re lowering down the barbell after you have curled it up. ![]() This basically refers to the ‘lowering’ phase of an exercise, or the part of an exercise where you feel the stretch more. DOMSĭelayed Onset Of Muscular Soreness (DOMS), refers to the muscle soreness you experience a day or two after a workout. GainsĪ term that is simply used for the ‘progress’ you’ve made from going to the gym, which could be strength gains, muscle gains or even fat loss gains. Exercises can have single or multiple reps. So beginning at the starting position, lifting and lowering the weight, then returning to the start position…this is classed as 1 rep. This is short for ‘repetition’.which is one complete movement of any given exercise. You generally rest between sets, unless otherwise stated. For example, a set of seated rows might include 10 repetitions of rows performed back to back before taking a break. This refers to a group of repetitions of a single exercise performed together. You might perform exercises that target the same muscle groups or opposing muscle groups. ![]() SupersetĪ superset is a technique that involves performing two different exercises immediately after one another without taking a rest in between. Here’s some common ones you may hear form time to time, but explained in layman’s terms. Whenever you’re looking up a new plan in the app, or you’ve seen/heard something from YouTube that you don’t quite understand…there’s a whole load of gym terminology out there that can make things more confusing than they should be. ![]()
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