Fitness Glossary
Health / Fitness Glossary
Flush: Cleanse a muscle by increasing the blood supply to it, removing toxins left in muscle by exertion.
Footprint: A designeted space required for a workout machine.
Forced Repetitions: Assistance to perform additional repetitions of an exercise when muscles can no longer complete movement on their own.
Forearms: Lower arm muscle, between elbow and wrist.
Free Radicals: Highly reactive molecules that possess unpaired electrons. Caused by a number of factors, look at Antioxidants for prevention.
Free Style Training: Training all body parts in one workout.
Free Weights: Hand-held equipments such as dumbbell and barbells use to tone muscles of the body.
Free-Form: Amino Acids Structurally unlinked individual amino acids.
Freestyle: The traditional type of swimming movement that uses the front crawl.
Fructose: Often used as a sugar substitute for diabetics, because of its low glycemic index. A healthier option than normal sugar, as fructose comes from fruit.
Full Spectrum: Amino Acids A supplement that contains all of the essential amino acids.
Glucagon: A hormone responsible for the regulation of blood sugar levels.
Glucose: The basic fuel of the body, the simplest sugar molecule and main sugar found in the blood stream.
Gluteals: Abbreviation for gluteus maximus, medius and minimus; the buttock muscles.
Glycemic Index (GI): A measuring system to find the extent of which various foods raise the blood sugar level. The benchmark is white bread, which has a GI of 100. The higher the score, the greater the extents o . . . View Full Definition
Glycogen: The principle form of carbohydrate energy (glucose) stored within the bodies muscles and liver.
Growth Hormone: A naturally released anabolic hormone by the pituitary gland. It promotes muscle growth and the breakdown of body fat for energy, unfortunately it is greatly reduced after the age of about 20.
Guided Motion: This is the traditional pressing style of motion found on selectorized machines both at the club and at home. Pressing exercises are performed in a movement pattern predetermined by the stru . . . View Full Definition
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