Gym terminology

“Coffee Brakes”

I call this little breaks that we take between repetition coffee brakes when we lock the joint for exemple, this has the worst affect we are trying to build up muscles mass, this go against the one of the most important rules that you should constantly strain the muscle throughout the set, I call the coffee brakes because for me they are just as bad as if you would in a middle of a workout go to grab a cup of coffee in the middle of the set then go back to continue training.
I hope you can imagine how bad a thing like this is, we need to avoid this phenomena at all cost, so pay attention to what you have to do in order to avoid it.

“Muscle Focus”

This is very important when we want to gain muscle mass I go by the basic principle that you must focus on one muscle per exercise, I don’t use complex exercise that involve more then one muscle as the target muscles, My experience show better results when you concentrate just on one.
So you want to stick to the simple exercise and make sure that your performing the exercise correctly or else you risk injury and you also risk using other muscles which take you farther then your target muscle so pay attention what you need to do to keep then muscle focus.

“Toe Rule”

The toe rules goes for all the squat and lunge exercise, basically we want to keep our knees safe and avoid injures and use all the weight on our quads, when you pass with your knee your toes to the point you can’t see then because your knee hides them then this mean that lots of the weight is applied on your knee and by doing that you risk an injury and don’t use the full potential of the muscle, to avoid that and keep the “Toe rule” make sure you:
In lunge exercise take a big step forward.
In squat exercise make sure you have a wide stance and take your bottom to the back like your about to sit on a chair.
That way you assure that you can see the tip of your toes and keep the finger rule.

“Nipple Rule”

I hear that a lot: “you should align the bar when you bench press with you nipples”
Well… No you shouldn’t.
When doing a bench press and your lying in 180 degrees you should align the bar in the middle of you chest.
In an incline bench press you should align the bar on the upper part of your chest.
In an decline bench press you need to align the bar in lower part of your chest.