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    Power Isometrics: Isometric Exercises For Muscle Building And Strength Training For Everyone
    Power Isometrics: Isometric Exercises For Muscle Building And Strength Training For Everyone
    Power Isometrics: Isometric Exercises For Muscle Building And Strength Training For Everyone
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    Power Isometrics: Isometric Exercises For Muscle Building And Strength Training For Everyone

    By David Nordmark

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    Discover How Isometric Exercises Can Give You The Body Of Your Dreams

    Building muscle and strength using nothing but self-resistance is possible. Here’s how.

    Isometric exercises use the principle of the isometric contraction in order to build muscle and strength without moving a muscle. This form of self-resistance training has been around for thousands of years and has been utilized in such diverse disciplines as yoga and the martial arts. In the past such figures as legendary strongman Alexander Zass, former President John F Kennedy and the immortal Bruce Lee have all used isometric exercises to build strength and maintain their physiques. Power Isometrics: Isometric Exercises For Muscle Building And Strength Training is a modern take on this time proven discipline that will help you attain the body of your dreams in less than 1⁄2 hour a day. When you perform this simple yet incredibly effective program you can expect the following:
    Transform your physique without moving a muscle
    Build amazing strength
    You will look and feel great
    Create lean, perfectly sculpted muscle
    Lose unwanted fat
    Look younger than your years
    People will notice the new you and wonder what your secret is
    You can exercise from the comfort of your own home
    No special equipment is required
    No matter what your age or present physical condition Power Isometrics can put you on the road to a new you that radiates optimal health and vitality. Take your first step down this road by ordering Power Isometrics: Isometric Exercises For Muscle Building And Strength Training today!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Nordmark
    Release dateOct 21, 2010
    ISBN9781452341521
    Power Isometrics: Isometric Exercises For Muscle Building And Strength Training For Everyone
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    David Nordmark

    In the past D.M. Nordmark has written on many topics, including fitness and political science. Currently he is focused on writing fiction and exploring the Covid debacle. Non corporate media entities who wish to interview him on the subject of Covid can reach him at dnordmark@protonmail.com.

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    • 5/5
      Has a complete set of isometric exercises that can be done anywhere, at home or while traveling. These also represent a high return on your time spent.
    • 5/5
      This book was pretty good. I have friends that have the time and inclination to stay in the gym. I have neither. . I've always been able to do curls and such for my biceps, but pushups for my chest were out of the question because of a back injury. However, I tried the chest exercises and instantly I saw the difference. I was able to actually gain a chest - that remained - after the first workout (I was pumped). Since then I have been watching my chest grow in size and density. I'll be adding the other exercises soon. Once again, great book.

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    Power Isometrics - David Nordmark

    Understanding Isometric Exercises

    If you are looking for a way to get in great shape and get stronger while sculpting your body in the least amount of time, then isometric exercises are for you. Why does this exercise system work so well? Let me explain.

    Like many words isometrics is derived from the Greek. Iso meaning equal and metric meaning distance. When we refer to isometric exercise we are talking about an exercise system in which, although force is applied to the muscles, the muscles themselves never contract. Their muscular length remains the same. This is called an isometric contraction and it is the key to this entire course. Here’s how it works.

    Any muscle in your body is made up of thousands of muscle fibers of varying lengths and abilities. Some are explosively quick, others posses great endurance, while still others are extremely powerful. Any time your body needs to move a muscle your brain commands whatever muscle fibers it needs to start contracting.

    Here is the key point when it comes to isometric muscle building - your body is very efficient and it only activates the bare minimum number of muscle fibers required. To demonstrate this, imagine you pick up a paper cup. As it only takes a few muscle fibers to generate the necessary force to contract the muscle to pick up the cup, that is all that is used. If you go to pick up something heavier like, say, a jug of lemonade, your body will use more muscle fibers. Still, it will never use ALL of them if it doesn’t need to.

    This is the whole principle behind workout routines like weightlifting. The reason you have to do 3 sets of 12 repetitions when performing a biceps curl is that you are trying to tire out and work ALL of the muscle fibers. So, as you initially start curling, your mind activates only the bare minimum of muscle fibers required. However, as you keep going, those fibers tire and our brain has to activate others to keep going. This process of muscle fibers tiring and being replaced in the task by others continues until (ideally) all of the muscle fibers have been worked. When you reach this point you may find it impossible to perform one more rep. This is called muscle failure in weightlifting and it means you’ve worked every muscle fiber in your biceps.

    Now, instead of performing biceps curls with weights, what happens when you work your muscles against each other? Imagine you place your hands together palm-to-palm in front of your chest and you start squeezing as hard as you can. Your brain is getting the message that it is trying to move your right arm leftward and your left arm rightward. In order to do this it needs to contract muscles in both arms. It starts to do this but because there is no movement, no contraction occurs. How does your brain respond? It keeps recruiting more and more muscle fibers together in an attempt to contract the muscles and move the arms. It has no idea that this is a futile exercise as the arms are acting against themselves! In a way with an isometric contraction you are tricking your brain into using ALL of the available muscle fibers at the same time. This is why it is possible to exhaust ALL of the muscle fibers in 7 to 12 seconds. This is the secret of the isometric contraction and isometric exercises in general.

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