Summary of Bret Contreras's Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 When designing a workout, I trust strength coaches over just about anyone. They have a vested interest in optimizing their athletes’ strength, power, and conditioning, as well as their joint health and longevity.
#2 Bodyweight training is highly skewed toward pushing exercises, and this must be taken into account when designing a program. Because of the wonders of gravity, all it takes to get a great pressing workout is to sink your body toward the ground and then push your body upward.
#3 Bodyweight training is the most convenient form of resistance, and it can provide you with a great workout. You can gain great functional fitness in terms of strength, power, balance, and endurance from progressive bodyweight training, and recent research shows that you can enhance your flexibility to the same or even a greater degree through resistance training than from a stretching routine.
#4 You will continue to challenge your neuromuscular system as you progress to more difficult variations and increase the number of repetitions you perform with the various exercises. Your body will respond by synthesizing more protein and laying down more muscle tissue.

Sujets

• Sport
• Sports fitness
• Musculation
• Weight training

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 09 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669352297
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Bret Contreras's Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

When designing a workout, I trust strength coaches over just about anyone. They have a vested interest in optimizing their athletes’ strength, power, and conditioning, as well as their joint health and longevity.

#2

Bodyweight training is highly skewed toward pushing exercises, and this must be taken into account when designing a program. Because of the wonders of gravity, all it takes to get a great pressing workout is to sink your body toward the ground and then push your body upward.

#3

Bodyweight training is the most convenient form of resistance, and it can provide you with a great workout. You can gain great functional fitness in terms of strength, power, balance, and endurance from progressive bodyweight training, and recent research shows that you can enhance your flexibility to the same or even a greater degree through resistance training than from a stretching routine.

#4

You will continue to challenge your neuromuscular system as you progress to more difficult variations and increase the number of repetitions you perform with the various exercises. Your body will respond by synthesizing more protein and laying down more muscle tissue.

#5

Remember to test the safety of your set-up before beginning your full workout. If a particular setup seems unbalanced or insecure, switch to a different exercise or explore a safer alternative.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The arms are a major muscle group that is often neglected, but they are important for women as well. They are the least covered major muscles of the body, and they are often flexed in bathrooms around the world.

#2

On the front of the upper arms, you have the elbow flexors. Elbow flexion is moving the wrist toward the shoulder by bending the arm. The primary elbow flexors are the biceps brachii, which are actually composed of two heads, a long head and a short head.

#3

The elbow extensors are important in various athletic pursuits. They are heavily involved in throwing a chest pass in basketball, a jab or right cross in boxing, and heaving a shot put in track and field.

#4

The arms are worked heavily during upper-body exercises that involve the movement of two or more joints at a time.