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Key terms listed here will help you understand what is discussed throughout this manual and give you a better understanding of some of the common gym lingo.

Personal Trainer Transformation Guide: Key Terms!

By: Personal Trainer Guide

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Key Terms

These terms will help you understand what is discussed throughout this manual and give you a better understanding of some of the common gym lingo.

1. Abs, Abdominals

The muscle in the front of the stomach that form the six-pack when one's body fat is fairly low. Their function is to draw the base of the ribcage and the hips towards each other, as occurs when performing crunches.

2. Aerobic

Aerobic means requiring oxygen. When describing exercise, it refers to extended sustained levels of exertion during which metabolic processes that provide energy are dominated by the complete oxidation of nutrients

3. Amino Acids

Basic building blocks of protein.

4. Bodyfat Percentage

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5. Compound Exercise

6. Electrolytes

Minerals such as sodium, potassium, magnesium, and calcium used by cells in the creation and elimination of membrane potentials used to propagate nerve impulses and muscular contraction.

7. Failure

Lifting a weight until your muscles are so fatigued they cannot perform another repetition.

8. Forced Rep

A repetition performed with assistance from a spotter after a lifter has reached the point of failure with a given weight.

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9. One Rep Maximum

The greatest amount of weight that can be handled by a lifter for a single repetition in good form.

1 REP MAX CALCULATOR

Enter the amount of weight you can lift (in pounds) and the number of reps you can lift it for.

10. Overtraining

Training beyond the body's ability to repair itself. This can be caused by training the same body parts too frequently so that the body does not have time to recover before the next workout; workouts that are consistently harder than the body is able to recover from fully; or impairment of the body's normal recovery ability due to nutritional deficiencies, illness, or stress.

Besides impairing athletic performance, overtraining can increase the risk of injury or disease. Symptoms of overtraining include fatigue, reduced performance, and increased resting heart rate.

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Having Fun

It seems like every time I pick up a book that has anything to do with fitness, they never say a word about having fun. The people in the pictures demonstrating the lifts have absolutely no trace of a smile on their face.

A coach of mine once told me there are 2 kinds of fun:

Having fun building your house.
Having fun at a theme park.

Getting your body into shape is like "building your house type of fun," there is a lot of hard work that is involved. But when you get the final result you are extremely happy about what you have accomplished and it is very enjoyable. The feeling of accomplishment stays with you as you enjoy your house everyday.

So, be happy and have fun when you workout. Have a friend come with you to the gym, or make friends at the gym. Laugh and smile as you are working hard to get the body you desire, it will make time pass very quickly. Whatever you have to do to have fun, do it. Be creative, never get embarrassed, and it will make time fly.

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