Year: 2019

July 13, 2019 at 02:03AM by CWC When you take a muscle through the full range of motion, it goes through three phases of muscle contraction: eccentric, isometric, and concentric. Placing more attention on one phase can yield different results, it all depends on what you’re training for. For starters, what does any of that mean? Blink Fitness program manager Phil Timmons explains that eccentric is when your muscle is lengthening, concentric when the muscle is shortening, and isometric is when the muscle is contracting without moving (like when you’re in barre and shaking while holding at the bottom of a plié). “You can perform all of these in one exercise, such as an arm curl or bicep curl,” Timmons says. “As you are curling the weight up and bending the elbow it is a concentric movement. While holding the curl at the top with elbow bent for several seconds it’s isometric and while lowering the weight back down and straitening your arm it’s eccentric.” ad_intervals[‘407719_div-gpt-ad-9261280-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘407719_div-gpt-ad-9261280-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-9261280-3’);}); } }, 100); You always want to train first eccentrically, then isometrically, and finally, concentrically. Rondel King, MS, exercise physiologist at the NYU Langone Sports Performance Center, explains that to safely build strength in a move (whether you’re just starting off or looking to increase the weight your lifting) you always want to train first eccentrically, then isometrically, and finally, concentrically. In this order, King says you’ll protect your joints and learn to accept force

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July 12, 2019 at 04:00PM by CWC I can only imagine the lightness that comes with being easy-going. My preppy Pisces roommate, for instance, can talk to just about anyone at a punk show and doesn’t mind switching gears last minute on happy-hour plans, so long as the specials are good. It must be nice (really nice) to feel so socially feathery, and apparently that’s the blessing of being born as one of the four mutable signs in astrology. Don’t know what a mutable sign is, besides something I am clearly not? As astrologer Stefanie Iris Weiss explains it, “Mutable signs innately know how to go with the flow.” They’re probably inclusive of your most flexible friends, who are probably born toward the end of any of the four seasons. To clear things up further, below find out what it means for your personality if you’re one of the four mutable signs of the zodiac. The zodiac has 3 quadruplicities, each covering 4 signs Astrological quadruplicities represent clusters of four zodiac signs and how they act and react in certain situations. As opposed to how the elements—fire, water, Earth, and, air—dictate a person’s temperament, quadruplicaties more so point to how a person directs energy behaviorally. Cardinal signs are known for being great self-starters, while fixed signs are known for being consistent in their ways. So, what about mutable signs? ad_intervals[‘403188_div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘403188_div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’);}); } }, 100); “Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces—the signs that cap

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