Fitness Terms Everyone Should Know
Refresh Your Gym Lingo With These 14 Terms Everyone Should Know
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Plyometrics: These are exercises that require explosive movements like plyo lunges, tuck jumps, and jump squats. Plyometric exercises will help you improve your athletic performance, strength, and endurance and help you burn fat.
Unilateral exercises: Instead of working both sides of your body at once with bilateral exercises, unilateral exercises focus on strengthening limbs individually. Most people have muscular imbalances, and consistently training with unilateral movements will help minimize any asymmetry in your body.
Functional exercises: Functional exercises will help improve your performance of day-to-day movements. An example of a functional exercise is a squat. You perform squats every time you sit down and when bend down to pick things up.
Compound exercises: These are exercises that use more groups of large muscle mass like squats and push-ups. Implementing compound exercises into your routine will elicit a greater energy expenditure, helping you burn more calories.