Fitness Glossary
Health / Fitness Glossary
Multi-Gym: A home gym contraption that looks like a bunch of health-club weight machines welded to each other.
Muscle: Tissue consisting of fibres organized into bands or bundles that contract to cause bodily movement. Muscle fibres run in the same direction as the action they perform.
Muscle Head: Slang for someone whose life is dominated by training.
Muscle Spasm: Sudden, involuntary contraction of muscle or muscle group.
Muscle Tone: Condition in which muscle is in a constant yet slight state of contraction and appears firm.
Muscular Failure: In a strength training program, the point at which your last repetition with weights is so difficult that you cannot perform another repetition.
Muscularity: Another term for definition, denoting a fully delineated muscles and absence of fat.
Myositis: Muscular soreness due to inflammation that often occurs 1-2 days after unaccustomed exercise. Often referred as DOMS (Delayed onset muscle soreness)
Nautilus: Iso kinetic-type exercise machine which attempts to match resistance with user's force.
Negative Reps: One or two partners help you lift a weight up to 50% heavier than you would normally lift to finish point of movement. Then you slowly lower weight on your own.
Neutral Grip: A grip on a bar when the palm of each hand face each other.
Non-Locks: Performing an exercise without going through the complete range of motion. For example, doing squat without coming to full lockout position of the knees or pressing a barbell without locking . . . View Full Definition
Nutrients: Components found in foods such as proteins, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins and water, and help to nourish the body, promoting energyand growth.
Obliques: Related to external oblique, the muscle located on each side of abdominal. These are used to flex and rotate the body.
Odd Lifts: Exercises used in competition other than snatch and clean and jerk, such as squats, bench presses, and barbell curls.
Oestrogen: Female sex hormone.
Olympic Lifts: Two movements used in national and international Olympic competitions: the SNATCH and the CLEAN and JERK.
Olympic Set: High quality, precision made set of weights used for competition. The bar is approximately 7' long. All moving parts have either brass bushings or bearings. Plates are machined for accurate weight.
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