Created by: paul01234
Number of Blossarys: 51
English (EN) Lying flat on your back with your knees in the air and bending over partially so that the back arches. Builds the abdominal muscles very effectively and is comparably more difficult than sit-ups.
The indicator of how much the body needs oxygen, alongside shortness of breath. A higher heart rate is a good indicator that one is doing aerobic exercises with more intensity.
The formal indicator of intensity is how much oxygen is consumed by the body during an exercise; thereby indicating how much fat and energy is burned during the exercise itself.
An exercise in which muscles are free to contract and shorten without changing their tension. Useful because it does not overexert the cardiovascular system, something that its counterpart, isometric ...
Jumping, raising your hands by tracing arcs at your side, and splitting your feet apart, all at the same time, and then doing the reverse. A very tiring activity.
To grasp weights and to lift them against the force of gravity. Gets exponentially more difficult the more mass, and therefore, the more weight the weights have. Used to build muscles.
Any form of activity that relies on moving skeletal muscles. Typing on a computer counts but it will not be enough to lose fat – one would need to raise the intensity.
