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High Intensity Training WorkoutHigh Intensity Training WorkoutHigh intensity training workout devotes lot of attention in attaining strength along with muscle build up. The gain in muscle mass has to be supported with build up in strength. It may be possible for someone to create a force of 100 pounds through his biceps curl with his upper and lower arms held at a 90° angle. But it may reduce to 70 pounds at 135° and further reduce to 30 pounds at 170°. When you plot the degrees of force, you can draw a strength curve of your high intensity training workout. High intensity training workout should uniquely address to the training requirements based on how each muscle are attached to the bones and how they respond to exercises. The strength curve of each muscle is different from one another. For example the quadriceps has a different strength curve than the strength curve of the hamstrings. The hamstrings initially rise to its optimum best and in the rest of the range of motions the strength curve shoots down drastically. What really happens when you do high intensity weight training? Weight is simply a measure of the amount of load used to lift. The resistance is the amount of force the muscles must produce to lift that load, and is the product of weight and lever. Depending on leverage factors, it is possible to lift a tremendous amount of weight without encountering a significant resistance, or to produce a tremendous amount of resistance using a very small amount of weight. A physicist will not only satisfy himself with the amount of weight you lift in your training. What will also matter for him is the turning force or the torque which is applied to the limbs when you do the barbells or weight stack in your high intensity training workout. High intensity training workout must understand what torque is all about. Place your arms in the biceps curl position at 90° and imagine a weight is trying to torque or turn your lower arm elbow at the elbow joint will give you an idea of torque. Two things decide what will be the amount of torque. The first one is what is the weight of the load you are lifting? The second one is how far is the load from your joint? To find out the effective resistance offered by the barbell, draw vertical lines downward from the barbell and the center of the rotating joint and then join the two lines with a line at 90°. To arrive at the resistance or torque offered by the barbell on the arm multiply the weight of the load by the perpendicular distance, or moment arm. If you measure them in inches and pounds then this value will be called as inch-pounds in your high intensity training workout. |
