Elite athletic performance and general fitness are sustained through structured hypertrophy strategies, sport-specific conditioning, and rigorous adherence to injury prevention protocols.
The multifidus muscles run the length of the spine, and they are an important component of spine stability and posture. They parallel another muscle group known as the erector spinae, and if these muscles are weak, you can subject yourself to back pain.
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Sprints are high impact, high intensity exercises. Being that they are so labor intensive, they burn a high amount of calories when you do them, and they also trigger a higher metabolism once you have wrapped up your workout. This is called the excess post-exercise oxygen consumption, or EPOC for short.
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The pituitary gland is about the size of a pea and it sits at the base of the brain behind the nose. Even though it is small, this does not take away from its importance to the body. It produces human growth hormone (HGH), which is quintessential for growth when you are an adolescent.
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Baseball is a game that involves a lot of twisting, jumping, lateral and forward-to-backward movements. If you walk on to the field to perform these tasks without a proper warmup, you run the risk of pulling a muscle.
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To become buff, you must overload your muscles with a resistance that is greater than their normal load. This can be achieved with the use of a weighted vest. A weighted vest is a fitness tool that gets wrapped around the upper body and has small slots all the way around it into which you can slide small weights.
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Fat has its way of accumulating in the most unwanted places. One of those areas is the area under the chin. Over the years, this has adequately been coined as the double chin. Unfortunately for some, there is a predisposition for this to take place and no one is exempt from the aging process.
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"Six pack" is a term used to describe a superior feat of fitness that is seen in the abdominal area. Six muscles appear in a symmetrical and uniform fashion in a tic tac toe-like formation. Having six-pack abs takes a lot of dedication, devotion and flat-out hard work.
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The obliques are the diagonal muscles on the sides of the ribcage by the stomach. If your obliques are covered by fat, you have what is referred to as "love handles." These overhangs of fat on the sides are often the butt of many jokes, but when you have them, it's no laughing matter.
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