Muscle control and muscle shake

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

One aspect of muscle control exercise is the concentration on contraction of the specific muscle being exercised. If the intensity of the contraction on any muscle causes that muscle to shake, then you have gone too far – back off, perform the exercise with less intensity. If the muscle shakes even with very low intensity [...]

Muscle bound?

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Both for men and women, keeping muscles in shape is important – as I point out in my post Why muscles? But there is one reason why many people steer away from any exercise that forcefully contract the muscles (particularly weights). And that is a fear of getting too big. Now, really big muscles are [...]

How long to exercise?

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

I am going to stick my neck out here and say around 10 minutes minimum to around 40 minutes maximum, with 20-30 minutes being optimum/average. In my book this goes for all sorts of planned exercise, from cardio-vascular like running, or weights sessions or even my favoured variety of muscle control exercises. Why do I [...]

How often should you exercise?

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

Well that depends on what you are doing doesn’t it? If you are doing strenuous cardio stuff like running then the wisdom is at least twice a week with three times a week being the optimum. You certainly shouldn’t run EVERY day. Likewise, if you are exercising your muscles to breakdown, as in weight training, [...]