"Strength training or resistance training involves the performance of physical exercises that are designed to improve strength and endurance."
Understanding how to design and implement resistance training workouts, including proper form and technique.
Anatomy and physiology: Understanding the structure and function of the human body, including muscles, bones, joints, and the cardiovascular and respiratory systems.
Biomechanics: The application of mechanical principles to the study of human movement, including force, torque, and resistance.
Exercise physiology: The study of how the body responds to physical activity, including energy metabolism, oxygen transport, and muscle adaptation.
Nutrition: The role of diet and macronutrients in building and maintaining muscle mass, as well as providing energy for exercise.
Training principles: The various methods of resistance training, including volume, intensity, frequency, and periodization.
Resistance training exercises: The different types of exercises, including free weights, machines, and bodyweight exercises, and how to perform them correctly.
Program design: How to create a resistance training program that is tailored to individual needs, goals, and abilities.
Progression and adaptation: How to modify a resistance training program over time to ensure continued progress and adaptation.
Safety and injury prevention: How to prevent injury during resistance training, including proper warm-up, technique, and rest periods.
Assessment and evaluation: How to assess clients' needs, goals, and fitness levels, as well as how to evaluate the effectiveness of a resistance training program.
Weight Training: This is the most common type of resistance training, where you lift different weights (dumbbells, barbells, kettlebells, etc.) to build strength and muscle mass.
Bodyweight Training: It refers to exercises that use your own body weight as the resistance, such as push-ups, pull-ups, squats, lunges, planks, and dips.
Isometric Training: It involves holding a specific position, with or without external resistance, without any joint movement, to enhance strength and endurance.
Resistance Bands Training: It involves using elastic bands with varying resistance levels to perform resistance exercises similar to weight training.
Suspension Training: It uses a suspension trainer (such as TRX) to perform resistance exercises that challenge stability and balance.
Plyometric Training: It involves explosive movements that require rapid contractions of muscles, such as jumps, bounds, and hops, to improve power and speed.
Powerlifting: It is a competitive form of resistance training that includes three main lifts: Squat, bench press, and deadlift - to test maximal strength.
Olympic Weightlifting: It is another competitive form of lifting in which an athlete performs two lifts- snatch and clean and jerk- with a barbell.
Circuit Training: It involves performing a series of exercises in a sequence with little or no rest in between, to enhance cardiovascular endurance and muscular fitness.
Freeletics: It is a form of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) that involves bodyweight exercises and cardio-based movements to improve strength, speed, and endurance.
Functional Training: It emphasizes movements that mimic real-life activities, to improve overall fitness and strength for daily living.
Strongman Training: It involves lifting unusual and heavy objects like Atlas stones, logs, sandbags, and tires that challenge strength, endurance, and overall athleticism.
"It can also incorporate a variety of training techniques such as bodyweight exercises, isometrics, and plyometrics."
"It is often associated with the lifting of weights."
"No, it can also incorporate a variety of training techniques such as bodyweight exercises, isometrics, and plyometrics."
"Training works by progressively increasing the force output of the muscles and uses a variety of exercises and types of equipment."
"Strength training is primarily an anaerobic activity, although circuit training also is a form of aerobic exercise."
"Strength training can increase muscle, tendon, and ligament strength as well as bone density, metabolism, and the lactate threshold; improve joint and cardiac function; and reduce the risk of injury in athletes and the elderly."
"For many sports and physical activities, strength training is central or is used as part of their training regimen."
"Strength training can increase... bone density."
"Strength training can increase... the lactate threshold."
"Strength training can improve joint function."
"Strength training can reduce the risk of injury in athletes and the elderly."
"Strength training can improve... cardiac function."
"It can also incorporate a variety of training techniques such as bodyweight exercises, isometrics, and plyometrics."
"Strength training can increase muscle, tendon, and ligament strength as well as bone density, metabolism, and the lactate threshold."
"For many sports and physical activities, strength training is central or is used as part of their training regimen."
"Strength training can increase... metabolism."
"Strength training can reduce the risk of injury in athletes and the elderly."
"For many sports and physical activities, strength training is central or is used as part of their training regimen."
"Strength training or resistance training involves the performance of physical exercises that are designed to improve strength and endurance."