Health / Fitness Glossary

Double: Routine Working out twice a day to allow for shorter, more intense workouts. Usually performed by more advanced bodybuilders preparing for a contest.

Drop Sets: A set of exercise where a person starts with a heavy weight and repets to failure. After that, just exchange for a lighter weight to continue the exercise.

Drying Out: Encouraging loss of body fluids by limiting fluid intake, eliminating salt, sweating heavily and/or using diuretics.

Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DEXA): A method of measuring your body fat that also determines where the fat is located on your body, a more relevant health indicator.

Dumbbell: A small metal bar consisting of two weights on each side. The weights can be attached or detached. The bar is gripped with one hand between the weights.

Easy Set: Exercise not close to maximum effort, as in a warm-up.

Eccentric Contraction: Muscle lengthens while maintaining tension.

Eccentric Muscle Action: When the muscle lengthens while the contracting against resistance.

Eddy Current: A type of resistance that works electromagnetically with a precision-balanced aluminum disk that spins freely between variable magnetic fields. Because of the very few moving parts and no fr . . . View Full Definition

Elastic Resistance: Weight training that provides the majority of the resistance at the beginning, when the muscle must overcome the inertia of the weight's mass. After this point the overall resistance alters . . . View Full Definition

Electrolytes: Capable of conducting electricity in a solution. Used in many body activities, potassium, sodium and chloride are all forms of electrolytes.

Elliptical Trainer: The hottest trend in cardio machines, which is part stair-climber, part treadmill, part stationary cycle. Your legs travel in an elongated circular movement, and, on some models, you pump ar . . . View Full Definition

Emotional Storm: A traumatic emotional experience that is likely to effect the human organism physiologically.

Empty Calories: A term used to denote food contributing calories that are void of significant food value and nutrients.

Endogenous: Naturally occurring body productions.

Endurance: Ability of a muscle to produce force continually over a period of time.

Enzyme: Helpful protein molecules, responsible for a multitude of chemical reactions within the body.

Ergogenic: Something that can increase muscular work capacity.

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