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What Is Isometric Exercises

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What Is Isometric Exercises? That is the most popular question that I receive from both men and women.

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Perhaps, this is because of the popularity of exercising at home and Isometrics has been increasing in the last few years.

Isometric exercise is nothing new. If you have ever practiced yoga, Pilates, or any martial arts you have performed isometric exercises. It is one of the few scientifically validated training

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what is isometric exercises

protocols.

In essence, it’s a method of exercising that does not use a full range of motion. It uses a static contraction or hold to increase strength in both the muscles and the tendons.

What Is Isometric Exercise All About?

As the story goes, experiments were performed on two frogs and quite by accident, one of the frogs legs grew stronger even though it had been tied down.

You see the frog had been resisting against the bindings that held the leg to the table and as a result, the mu

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scles on that leg began to grow. This is how isometrics was discovered.

Later on, two German doctors… Dr. Hettinger and Dr. Mueller conducted tests at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, looking to find scientific proof that isometrics really worked.

They began to apply these tests to humans and discovered that the group that trained with isometrics was able to increase its muscular strength by 5% per week.

These gains greatly exceeded those of the other group that was training with tra

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ditional bodybuilding methods. These results were later on reconfirmed by others in the exercise physiology field.

Isometrics In The NFL

In the 1960s, professional sports teams began incorporating isometrics into their strength and conditioning program for their players. One of the first of these teams was the Green Bay Packers.

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