Isometric Exercise: Muscular contraction where muscle maintains a constant length and joints do not move. These exercises are usually performed against a wall or other immovable object.

 

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Isometric Exercise: Muscular contraction where muscle maintains a constant length and joints do not move. These exercises are usually performed against a wall or other immovable object.

Isometric Muscle Balancing: Developed by Charlotte Vandergrift, Isometric Muscle Balancing is based on the muscle testing positions used in kinesiology. Balancing and strengthening the forty-two major muscles are accom . . . View Full Definition

Isometric View: Instead of viewing the action directly from above or directly from the side, an isometric view allows you to look at the action from an angle. This is popular in football games.

Isometric: Muscle contraction in which the muscle tension increase, but without change in the muscle length.

Floor Exercises: Also called mat class. In these classes, we work on the floor using our own bodies for resistance.

Isolation Exercise: Weight lifting exercise that stimulate just a single muscle group. Good for defining a muscle.

Isotonic Exercise: Muscular action in which there is a change in length of muscle and weight, keeping tension constant. Lifting free weights is a classic isotonic exercise.

Neck Exercises: A warm-up pose. Drop your head and slowly make a circle with your neck.

temple exercises: Warm up exercises done before the Tai Chi form

Weight-Bearing Exercise: A type of exercise in which your skeleton is supporting any sort of weight, as it does when you walk, run, or lift weights.