Health / Fitness Glossary

Chelating Agents: Soluble organic compounds that can fit certain metallic ions into their molecular structure.

Chest Muscles: Muscle located between the neck and abdomen. These muscles run over the rib cage in a patern similar to a fan.

Chi: Otherwise known as 'life energy,' this is the life force that pulses through your body and keeps you vital. Blocked chi can cause sickness or unhappiness.

Cholesterol: A fat lipid which has both good and bad implications within the human body. Good being known as HDL and bad being LDL. Bad cholesterol is associated with heart disease and stroke, whereas th . . . View Full Definition

Chronic Disease: A disease or illness that is associated with lifestyle or environment factors as opposed to infectious diseases (hypo kinetic diseases are considered to be chronic diseases).

Circuit Training: Going quickly from one exercise apparatus to another and doing a prescribed number of exercises or time on each apparatus, keeps pulse rate high and promotes overall fitness, by generally wo . . . View Full Definition

Clean: Lifting weight from floor to shoulder in one motion.

Clean And Jerk: Olympic lift where weight is raised from floor to overhead in two movements.

Clean And Snatch: One of two Olympic lifts where weight is raised from floor to overhead at arms length in one motion.

Coenzyme: A substance that works with an enzyme to promote the enzyme's activity.

Complete Proteins: Proteins that contain all the essential amino acids.

Compound Exercise: A group of exercises where more than one joint is extended or flexed. A squat is a great example of a compound exercise because of the knees and hips both being used in the exercise.

Compound Training: Sometimes called 'giant sets'; doing 3-4 exercises with the same muscle, one after the other, with minimal rest in between.

Concentric: Used to describe the part of a repetition in which the muscle group works against gravity, usually contracting the muscle, such as lifting a weight.

Concentric Contraction: An isotonic muscle contraction, where a muscle contracts or shortens.

Concentric Muscle Action: When a muscle shortens while contracting against resistance.

Congestive Heart Failure: The inability of the heart muscle to pump the blood at a life sustaining rate.

Cool Down: A period of time used after a fast workout or activity by slowing down the pace to bring the body back to its normal rhythm.

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