Glossary

Barbell

1. A bar that is used for weight lifing; weighted plates or discs can be attached on each end. (webmd)
2. Exercise bar with weights: a metal bar with removable weights at each end, used in weightlifting (ms encarta)

Biceps

1. A muscle with two origins or heads. Commonly used to refer to the biceps brachii (muscle). (webmd)
2. Muscle with two attachment points: a muscle that has two points of attachment at one end, especially one biceps brachii in the upper arm and one biceps femoris in the back of the thigh (ms encarta)
   

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Body fat
The human body is made up of bones, muscles, organs, water -- and fat. In weight loss measurements, the term "body fat" refers to the percentage of body mass that is only fat. (webmd)

Cardiovascular (CV)
Relating to the heart and the blood vessels or the circulation. Syn: cardiovasculare, vasculocardiac (webmd)

Creatinine (Cr)

1. A component of urine and the final product of creatine catabolism; formed by the nonenzymatic dephosphorylative cyclization of phosphocreatine to form the internal anhydride of creatine. (webmd)
2. Compound in muscle: a derivative of creatine found in muscle, blood, and urine. Formula: C4H7ON3 (ms encarta)
   

Deltoids

1. The large muscles, roughly triangular in shape, that stretch from the clavicle (collarbone) to the humerus (the long bone in the upper arm) and so cover the shoulders. When the deltoid is contracted (flexed), it moves the arm away from the side of the body.(webmd)
2. Shoulder muscle: a thick triangular muscle that covers the shoulder joint (ms encarta)

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Dumbbell

1. This is a small barbell used for one-arm exercises (webmd)
2. Weight for exercising: an exercise weight in the form of a metal bar with a metal disk or ball at each end (ms encarta)

Hamstrings

1. Refers to the three major muscles which are located on the back of the thigh. These muscles function as flexors of the knee. (webmd)
2. Muscle used to flex knee: a muscle belonging to a group of three at the back of the thigh that control leg movements such as flexing the knee (ms encarta)

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Latissimus Dorsi (muscle)

1. Thoracoappendicular muscle (superficial muscle of back); origin, spinous processes of lower five or six thoracic and the lumbar vertebrae, median ridge of sacrum, and outer lip of iliac crest; insertion, with teres major into posterior lip of bicipital groove of humerus; action, adducts arm, rotates it medially, and extends it; nerve supply, thoracodorsal.(webmd)
2. Triangular muscle along back: either of the two broad triangular muscles along the sides of the back (ms encarta)

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Plyometric
Plyometrics is an advanced training technique aimed at linking strength with speed of movement to produce power. To use a conceptual mathematic equation, plyometrics is strength plus velocity equals power.

Plyometric exercises teach muscles to respond quickly and powerfully. By stretching a muscle tightly and then quickly contracting it, plyometric drills enable a muscle to reach maximum strength in as short a time as possible. With plyometric training, people seek to train the body's fast-twitch muscle fibers so that they can load, or stretch, the muscle more quickly, and in turn, unload it more quickly to produce more power. In terms of basic muscular physiology, a prestretched, or loaded, muscle is capable of generating more force than an unstretched muscle. (msencarta)


Quadriceps

1. Syn: four-headed muscle (webmd)
2. thigh muscle: a large four-part muscle at the front of the thigh that acts to extend the leg (ms encarta)

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Repetition

1. An instance of performing an act again (webmd)
2. Repeating of something: an act of doing something again (ms encarta)
3. something same as before: an event or situation that is the same as one that happened previously

Set

1. Readiness to perceive or respond in some way; an attitude that facilitates or predetermines an outcome, e.g., prejudice or bigotry as a set to respond negatively, independently of the merits of the stimulus.
2. To reduce a fracture, i.e., to bring the bones back into a normal position or alignment.
3. Defined group of events, objects, data, distinguishable from other groups

Static stretch
Holding a stretch


Tendon
Nondistensible fibrous cord or band of variable length that is the part of the muscle (some authorities, however, consider it as part of the muscle complex), which connects the fleshy (contractile) part of muscle with its bony attachment or other structure; it may unite with the fleshy part of the muscle at its extremity or may run along the side or in the center of the fleshy part for a longer or shorter distance, receiving the muscular fibers along its border; when determining the length of a muscle, the tendon length is included as well as the fleshy part; it consists of fascicles of densely arranged, almost parallel collagenous fibers, rows of elongated fibrocytes, and a minimum of ground substance.
Syn: tendo, sinew


Triceps
Three-headed; denoting especially two muscles: triceps brachii and triceps surae. See: muscle
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Water dumbbells
Flotation devices used to increase resistance in water exercises.