Weight Training

Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS)

• Soreness experienced after exercise.

• A way to control the rate at which an exercise is performed.

• The principle that states the body gets accustomed to a particular exercise or training through repeated exposure.

• The highest number of beats your heart can pump per minute when it’s under high stress (physical or otherwise).

Training Volume

• The increase in musle groups.

• How hard you train when working out in the gym.

• The measure of the total amount of work performed in a training session including the exercises, loads, numbers of sets, and the number of repetitions.

Concentric

• When you arm is getting longer

• The phase of an exercise where the muscles involved are shortening.

• A group of repetitions followed by rest.

• When you are moving you body hard and it is getting smaller

Eccentric

• The decrease of muscle size.

• The phase of an exercise where the muscles involved are shortening.

• One performance of an exercise.

• The phase of an exercise where the muscles are lengthening.

Rest

• The time between sets.

• The measure of the total amount of work performed in a training session including the exercises, loads, numbers of sets, and the number of repetitions.

• A group of repetitions followed by rest.

• Soreness experienced after exercise.

Repetition (rep)

• One performance of an exercise.

• The phase of an exercise where the muscles are lengthening.

• The decrease of muscle size.

• Soreness experienced after exercise.

Set

• The phase of an exercise where the muscles are lengthening.

• A group of repetitions followed by rest.

• The highest number of beats your heart can pump per minute when it’s under high stress (physical or otherwise).

• 3x10 would mean complete 3 sets of 10 reps of the exercise

Atrophy

• One performance of an exercise.

• The decrease of muscle size.

• The increase in muscle size.

Hypertrophy

• Amount of time a muscle or muscle group is held under tension (activation) during an exercise.

• The measure of the total amount of work performed in a training session including the exercises, loads, numbers of sets, and the number of repetitions.

• The increase in muscle size.

• One performance of an exercise.

Frequency

• The increase in muscle size.

• A way to control the rate at which an exercise is performed.

• How often the training sessions take place.