enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Super Slow - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Slow

    Super Slow is a form of strengthening physical exercise (resistance training) popularized by Ken Hutchins. [1] Super Slow is Hutchins' trademarked name for the High intensity training approach advocated by Arthur Jones .

  3. Yoga for children - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_for_children

    Yoga for children is a form of yoga as exercise designed for children. It includes poses to increase strength, flexibility, and coordination. Classes are intended to be fun and may include age-appropriate games, animal sounds and creative names for poses.

  4. Stretch shortening cycle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretch_shortening_cycle

    This energy would be released as the tendon shortened. Thus, the recoil of the tendon during the shortening phase of the movement would result in a more efficient movement than one in which no energy had been stored. [2] This research is further supported by Roberts et al. [3]

  5. Strength training - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strength_training

    Supplementation of protein in the diet of healthy adults increases the size and strength of muscles during prolonged resistance exercise training (RET); protein intakes of greater than 1.62 grams per kilogram of body weight a day did not additionally increase fat–free mass (FFM), muscle size, or strength, [51] with the caveat that "Increasing ...

  6. Stretching - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretching

    Stretching is a form of physical exercise in which a specific muscle or tendon (or muscle group) is deliberately expanded and flexed in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and achieve comfortable muscle tone. [1] The result is a feeling of increased muscle control, flexibility, and range of motion.

  7. Yijin Jing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yijin_Jing

    However Wang's 12 Postures is found through practice to be a concise aid in enhancing one's physical health. As the name implies, "sinew transforming exercise" is the method to train the tendons and muscles. The exercise is designed according to the course and characteristics of Qi circulation in the 12 regular channels and the Du and Ren channels.

  8. Progressive overload - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_overload

    Progressive overload not only stimulates muscle hypertrophy, but it also stimulates the development of stronger and denser bones, ligaments, tendons and cartilage. [5] Progressive overload also incrementally increases blood flow to regions of the body exercised and stimulates more responsive nerve connections between the brain and the muscles ...

  9. Electrical muscle stimulation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_muscle_stimulation

    EMS fitness is also an FDA-cleared medical device but meant for muscle development. EMS fitness is designed to stimulate all the major muscle groups to elicit strength and endurance adaptations." [ 12 ] In the case of TENS, the current is usually sub-threshold, meaning that a muscle contraction is not observed.