Isometric exersices

[kiosan]

I want to tell about nice exercise complex named as Isometric Exercises.
I use them for one year and I feels very good. It takes only 20 minutes per day. This is the course from School of Effective Leaders.
You can check Isometric exercises at http://www.isometric-exercises.com/
In case any questions, ask here or by email - I'll answer.

[Lonewolf]

Bruce Lee used to do them a lot, and in the 70's there was a bodybuilder called Mike Mentzer who used to incorporate isometrics together with regular and negative reps - he called it omnidirectional high intensity training. It uses the muscle in a different way.

[kiosan]

Using such exercises makes muscles not much more bigger, but a lot stronger. As power of muscles depends not on size of muscles but on level of innervation. Isometric exercises helps to use psychic energy, like people in danger situation, when they can to lift up car just by hands.

[kiosan]

Also isometric exercise allow to remove muscular clips, that are projection of psychic blocks to the body.

[Lonewolf]

I don't really beleive that. Isometric training gets your muscles strong at that particular type of activity (holding tension in the one place for a length of time); this does not transfer very well to plyometric strength, moving large weights around, wrestling etc. It is good for rock-climbing and is a valid method of training to be cycled in with other equally valid methods by strength athletes.

[kiosan]

Isometric training is not only holding tension, it is also working with specific muscle, you need to study how to control specific muscle, relax or strain it. This allow you to control the body. And for example, activating the spine innervation means rising energy of spinal meridian which, in psychics, corresponds to the energy of power instinct.

[Lonewolf]

Beleive me, you must raise an enormous amount of explosive energy to bench press 300 pounds; energy that exists in the body as well as the mind or spirit. You "prove" your faith with something real, concrete and indisputable, which is a lot more beneficial than spending time "believing in yourself".

[kiosan]

Originally Posted by Lonewolf

Beleive me, you must raise an enormous amount of explosive energy to bench press 300 pounds; energy that exists in the body as well as the mind or spirit. You "prove" your faith with something real, concrete and indisputable, which is a lot more beneficial than spending time "believing in yourself".

In most cases, people wants to have good form and to feel good and also spent a little time on exercise, isometric exercises allow to get all this. And I don't what to "prove" anything, I show the possibility. Isometric exercises allows to start working on body's energy flows.
Lonewolf, may be I understand your previous post not in right way.

[Donn]

Originally Posted by Lonewolf

I don't really beleive that. Isometric training gets your muscles strong at that particular type of activity (holding tension in the one place for a length of time); this does not transfer very well to plyometric strength, moving large weights around, wrestling etc. It is good for rock-climbing and is a valid method of training to be cycled in with other equally valid methods by strength athletes.

Isometric tension has been around since the 1930s. Its great protagonist, Charles Atlas (circa 1935-39) made it the core of his "revolutionaly new" body building program. But it didn't go anywhere.

Like other "revolutionaly new" body building programs, it fell from general favor because it failed to address the needs of the general athletic world. It couldn't even linger as a superior bodybuilding protocol.

Enter the new thinkers, the coaches, the magazine writers, the fitness authors. Many are now combining what might be called niche programs like isometrics with general bodybuilding and performance sports protocols. For example, do a regular set and end with a drop set, some partial sets and finally, an isometric hold. The current thinking, as I understand it, is that all of these things extend the basic set and add intensity to the workout. That intensity, some current thinkers say, is one of the keys to a good workout.

Maybe they're right. Why not try isometrics with your squats, chins and curls and, for good measure, look at: 10 second rests between sets, pyramiding, post exercise stretching and leg extensions after your vertical jumps?
I don't know if all that will make your muscles grow larger or stronger or more endurance capable but I know one thing; you'll be tired.

[qiflow]

Isometrics can be used to increase maximal strength, as well as speed strength (quick contraction at the beginning of range of motion). They create strength within 15 to 20 degrees either way (I believe) of where the contraction took place. If you do not want to decrease speed, try not to contract fully for more than 5-6 seconds. I agree, you may not get much hypertrophy (muscle growth) from isometrics, but strength is more a function of the nervous system. Strength increases when the nervous system can activate more motor units simultaneously. For more details on these things, read Never Gymless by Ross Enamait. RossTraining - Never Gymless

[marktb]

This is what my FREE exercise program is based on!! I recommend alternating periods of short duration isometrics with aerobic isometrics. Check out John Peterson's new book. I am FEATURED IN IT!!

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Mark Baldwin

[빈센트]

Yea, they're def nothing new. I do them every other day for 10 minutes in the morning after I get up. The only downside is not being able to do them everyday.