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Trifocus Fitness Academy - endurance training
What are the types of endurance training?
Endurance is the ability to do physical activity that increases your heart rate by 50% for as long as you can without getting tired. There are two types of endurance: Specific endurance Specific endurance is when you fight against fatigue in sport-specific conditions. For example, if you run 1 500m…
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Trifocus Fitness Academy - skeletal muscle
What is the structure of skeletal muscle?
Skeletal muscle is a specialised contractile tissue connected to the skeleton which enables you to move your body. The skeletal muscle consists of muscle tissue, connective tissue, nerve tissue and vascular tissue. These muscle fibres are surrounded by protective membranes. The combination of muscle fibres and membranes allows the skeletal…
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Trifocus Fitness Academy - muscle hypertrophy
What is muscle hypertrophy?
Hypertrophy is when the cells in an organ or tissue enlarge in size. Both cardiac and skeletal muscles can adapt to a regular, increasing workload that exceeds their capacity. With cardiac muscles, the heart pumps blood more effectively. Skeletal muscles become more efficient at transmitting forces through tendinous attachments to…
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What are the different types of biomechanical movement?
Biomechanics is the science of how the living body moves. Using a combination of engineering mechanics, biology and physiology we can understand how muscles, bones, tendons and ligaments work together to create movement. It also includes the mechanics of blood circulation, renal function and other bodily functions. This process is…
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Trifocus Fitness Academy - strength training
What are the effects of strength training?
Strength training is designed to improve your muscular fitness by exercising specific muscles against external resistance. It is also known as weight or resistance training. This type of training is usually performed with some kind of weight. The goal is for your muscles to adapt and get stronger to counter…
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Trifocus Fitness Academy - isotonic exercises
What are isotonic exercises?
What are isotonic exercises? Isotonic exercise are exercises that you’ll do when you are looking to condition a muscle group by lifting weighted objects. Unlike isometric exercises, which is a means of strength training with a focus on a specific muscle group, isotonic exercises improve your overall fitness and help…
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Trifocus Fitness Academy - ligaments
What are ligaments and what do they do?
Ligaments are bands of tough elastic connective tissue, that contain strong collagen fibres, around your joints. They connect bones together, give your joints support and limit your movement. This ensures that the bones in your joints don’t twist too much or move too far apart and become dislocated. The ligaments…
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Trifocus Fitness Academy - isometric exercises
What are isometric exercises?
When you are performing isometric exercises, the length of the muscle you are exercising and the angle of the affected joint does not change. Because isometric exercises are done in one fixed position, they’ll only improve strength in that particular position. If you want to improve your entire body’s strength,…
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Trifocus Fitness Academy - sleep better
How yoga can help you to sleep better
Being deprived of sleep deprivation as well as stress can lead to a downward spiral. Often, we have trouble falling asleep as we’re worried or anxious. Because we didn’t get enough sleep this makes us stressed the following day. According to a study which was carried out recently, sleep deprivation…
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Trifocus Fitness Academy - recovery days
Why recovery days are so important in your training programme
In quite a lot of training and exercise programmes, one of the most important components is often left out or neglected. This component is rest and recovery. It is important to plan or schedule recovery days in between training. This is because not planning recovery days in between your workout…
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Trifocus Fitness Academy - tabata
What is Tabata?
If you’re up to speed about all things fitness (as we know you are!) you’ll have heard the word ‘Tabata’ bandied about. Although it’s quite popular in the States, not much is known about it in South Africa. So, in this article, we thought that we’d take a look at…
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