More BodyBuilding Slang and terms

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Abduction

Movement of a limb away from middle of body, such as bringing arm to shoulder height from hanging-down position.
Submitted by: Damien

Adduction

Movement of a limb toward middle of body, such as bringing arm to side from extended position at shoulder.
Submitted by: Matt

Amino acids

A group of compounds that serve as the building blocks from which protein and muscle are made.
Submitted by: Damien

Anabolic Drugs

Also called anabolic steroids, these are artificial male hormones that aid in nitrogen retention and thereby add to a male bodybuilder's muscle mass and strength. These drugs are not without hazardous side effects, however, and they are legally available only through a physician's prescription.
Submitted by: Damien

Antioxidant

Small compounds that minimize tissue oxidation and help control free radicals and their negative effects.
Submitted by: Damien

Arm Blaster

Aluminum strip about 5x24 inches, supported at waist height by a strap around neck. Keeps elbows from moving while curling barbell or doing triceps pushdowns.
Submitted by: Damien

Atrophy

Decrease in size and functional ability of tissue or organs. Atrophy is basically "muscle loss" through incorrect nutrition and overtraining.
Submitted by: Damien
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B

Baby's Butt

Indentation between the two heads of biceps muscles of very muscular man.
Submitted by: Julez

Back-Cycling

Dropping back the amount of weight used, number of reps or number of sets in your workout.
Submitted by: Dimi

Bar

The steel shaft that forms the basic part of a barbell, dumbell or cable attachment. These bars are normally about one inch thick, and they are often encased in a revolving standard size metal sleeve that holds the weight.
Submitted by: Damien

Barbell

Weight used for exercises, consisting of a rigid handle with detachable (or fixed) metal discs at each end.
Submitted by: Matt

Basic Exercise

A muscle building exercise which targets the largest muscle groups of your body (eg: upper legs, back, and/or chest) and often smaller muscles in the same movement. Basic exercises are the best for building muscle mass. Typical basic movements include squats, bench presses, rows and deadlifts.
Submitted by: Damien

Bench

A fixed or adjustable padded bench that you can use for doing various exercises like dumbell bench press, shoulder press and arm exercises. Some benches are flat and adjustable in height, other can incline to 10-90 degrees.
Submitted by: Damien

Biomechanics

The science concerned with the internal and external forces acting on a human body and the effects produced by these forces.
Submitted by: SimonG

Body Composition

The percentage of your body weight composed of fat compared to fat-free mass.
Submitted by: Big Daffy

Buff

Being muscular to the highest level.
Submitted by: CFRESH

Bulking Up

Gaining bodyweight by growing muscle, body fat or both muscle and fat.
Submitted by: Damien

Burn or "The Burn"

A beneficial burning sensation in a muscle that you are training. This burn is caused by a rapid buildup of fatigue toxins in the muscle and is a good indication that you are optimally working a muscle group. The best bodybuilders consistently forge past the pain barrier erected by muscle burn and consequently build very massive, highly defined muscles.
Submitted by: Damien
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C

Calories

The unit for measuring energy value. This can be the amount of energy you burn or the amount of energy contained in foods.
Submitted by: Matt

Carbohydrates

Organic compounds containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. They're a very effective fuel source for the body. The are 2 main types of carbs. Simple carbs are found in sugars and complex carbs are found in wheat, rice, bread, potatos etc. You need to each complex carbs for long lasting energy.
Submitted by: Damien

Chalk

The powder used on hands for a secure grip.
Submitted by: Robert

Cheating (cheat reps)

A method of pushing a muscle to keep working far past the point at which it would normally fail to continue contracting due to excessive fatigue buildup. In cheating you will use a self-administered body swing, jerk, or otherwise poor exercise form once you have reached the failure point to take some of the pressure off the muscles and allow them to continue a set for two or three repetitions past failure.
Submitted by: Damien

Chinup Bar

A bar attached high on the wall or gym ceiling, on which you can do chins, pull ups, hanging leg raises, and other movements for your upper body.
Submitted by: Damien

Circuit Training

Going quickly from one exercise apparatus to another and doing a prescribed number of exercises on each apparatus, to keep pulse rate high and promote overall fitness.
Submitted by: Damien

Colesterol

A type of fat that, although most widely known as a "bad fat" implicated in promoting heart disease and stroke, is a vital component in the production of many hormones in the body.
Submitted by: Damien

Collar

The clamp that is used to hold plates securely in place on a barbell or dumbell bar. The cylindrical metal clamps are held in place on the bar by means of a set screw threaded through the collar and tightened securely against the bar. Inside collars keep plates from sliding inward and injuring your hands, while outside collars keep plates from sliding off the barbell in the middle of an exercise.
Submitted by: Damien

Compound Exercise

An exercise that requires you to move at two joints or more. Examples of compound exercises are squat, bench press, pull up and dip.
Submitted by: Damien

Compound Training

Sometimes called "giant sets", doing 34 exercises for same muscle, one after other, with minimal rest in between.
Submitted by: Damien

Concentric

The lifting phase of an exercise, when the muscle shortens or contracts. For example in a bicep curl when you pull the weight up you're in the "positive" or concentric part of the movement.
Submitted by: Damien

Cooche Lift

Lifting like a sissygirl
Submitted by: tom

Crunches

An exercise for the abdominal muscles. The exercise is done on the floor with legs on bench, hands behind neck. Also known as situps.
Submitted by: Damien

Curl Bar

Cambered bar designed for more comfortable grip and less forearm strain.
Submitted by: Matt

Cycle

Refers to deliberate variation in the intensity and volume of workouts, or to variation of dosages of steroids or other growth-enhancing drugs.
Submitted by: Damien
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D

Dead Lift

A muscle building exercise and one of three powerlifting events (other two are squat and bench press). Weight is lifted off floor to approximately waist height. Lifter must stand erect, shoulders back.
Submitted by: Richy

Deficiency

A less than optimum level of nutrients for your bodys requirements. Most commonly seen in vitamins. Your body may become defficient when you are training hard and not eating a healthy diet.
Submitted by: Julez

Definition

The absence of fat over clearly delineated muscular movement. Definition is often referred to as "muscularity," and a highly defined bodybuilder has so little body fat that very fine grooves of muscularity called "striations" will be clearly visible over each major muscle group.
Submitted by: Damo

Delts

Abbreviation for Deltiods. Deltoids are the shoulder muscles. The body has front, middle and rear deltiods.
Submitted by: Damien

Density

Muscle hardness, which is also related to muscular definition. A bodybuilder can be well-defined and still have excess fat within each major muscle complex. But when he has muscle density, even this intramuscular fat has been eliminated. A combination of muscle mass and muscle density is highly prized among all competitive bodybuilders.
Submitted by: Rob

Dip Belt

A large heavy belt that a lifter can wear around the waist and attach additional weights to increase the intensity of the dip exercise.
Submitted by: Damien

Dipping Bars

Parallel bars set high enough above the floor to allow you to do dips between them, leg raises for your abdominals, and a variety of other exercises.
Submitted by: Damien

Drop Set

An advanced training technique where the trainee completes one set, immediately followed by another set with slightly lighter weights and the followed by a third set with llighter weights again. Drop sets are often used with dumbbells or machines. Barbell drop sets are often referred to as "stripping" because you take the plates off the bar instead of using lighter dumbbells. It's important that you have no rest between sets, not even 5 seconds!
Submitted by: Damien Mase

Dumbbell

Weight used for exercising consisting of rigid handle about 14" long with sometimes detachable metal discs at each end.
Submitted by: Damien
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E

Easy Set

A set performed without using maximum effort. Like a warm up set.
Submitted by: Greg

Eccentric

The lowering phase of an exercise, when the muscle lengthens. For example, lowering the weight to your chest during the bench press is the eccentric, or "negative" part of the exercise.
Submitted by: MaxHardcore

Endurance

Ability of a muscle to produce force continually over a period of time. The greater your endurance the longer you can perform the exercise.
Submitted by: Damien

Energy

Measure in Calories or KJ energy is the capacity to do work. Energy harnessed is power.
Submitted by: Damien

Essential fatty acids (EFAs)

Fats our bodies can't make, so we must obtain them through our diets. These fats (which include linoleic and linolenic acid) are very important to hormone production, as well as cellular synthesis and integrity. Good sources of these fats arc flaxseed oil and safflower oil.
Submitted by: Matt

Exercise

An exercises is each individual movement. For example bench press and squat are both different exercises.
Submitted by: Damien

Extension

When you extend a body part from a bent position to a straight position. For example tricep extension (bending at the elbow) and leg extension (bending at the knee).
Submitted by: Damien
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F

Failure

That point in an exercise at which you have so fully fatigued your working muscles that they can no longer complete an additional repetition of a movement with strict biomechanics. You should always take your post-warm-up sets at least to the point of momentary muscular failure, and frequently past that point.
Submitted by: Damien

Fast Twitch Muscles

Refers to muscle cells that fire quickly and are utilized in anaerobic activities like sprinting and powerlifting.
Submitted by: Damien

Fat

One of the macronutrients. Fat contains nine calories per gram; it has the most calories of MI the macronutrients. There are two types of fat-saturated "bad" fat and unsaturated "good" fat.
Submitted by: Damien

Fat Free Mass (FFM)

Any part of the human body that does not contain any fat. For example bones, hair, muscles skin etc.
Submitted by: Matt

Flex

Bend or decrease angle of a joint; contract a muscle.
Submitted by: Damien

Flexibility

A suppleness of joints, muscle masses, and connective tissues which lets you move your limbs over an exaggerated range of motion, a valuable quality in body-building training, since it promotes optimum physical development. Flexibility can only be attained through systematic stretching training.
Submitted by: Damien

Flush

Cleanse a muscle by increasing the blood supply to it, removing toxins left in muscle by exertion.
Submitted by: Damien

Forced Reps

Forced reps are a frequently used method of extending a set past the point of failure to induce greater gains in muscle mass and quality. With forced reps, a training partner pulls upward on the bar just enough for you to grind out two or three reps past the failure threshold.
Submitted by: Damien

Form

This is simply another word to indicate the mechanics used during the performance of any muscle building or weight training movement. Perfect form involves moving only the muscles specitied in an exercise description.
Submitted by: G-Man

Free Weights

Barbells, dumbbells, and related equipment. Serious bodybuilders use a combination of free weights and such exercise machines as those manufactured by Nautilus and Universal Gyms, but they primarily use free weights in their workouts.
Submitted by: Julez

Frequent Feeding

Eating often throughout the day to work with your body, not against it. fly eating at regular intervals throughout the day (approximately every two to three hours), you can keep your metabolism elevated and energy levels stable.
Submitted by: Leon

Fructose

The main type of sugar found in fruit. It's sweeter than sucrose (table sugar).
Submitted by: Dimi
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G

Giant Sets

Series of 4-6 exercises done with little or no rest between movements and a rest interval of 3-4 minutes between giant sets. You can perform giant sets for either two antagonistic muscle groups or a single body part.
Submitted by: Damien

Glucose

The simplest sugar molecule. It's also the main sugar found in blood and is used as a basic fuel for the body.
Submitted by: Katie

Glycogen

The principal stored form of carbohydrate energy (glucose), which is reserved in muscles. When your muscles are full of glycogen, they look and feel full.
Submitted by: Damien

Gorging

This refers to eating large amounts of food at one meal, then waiting for many hours, maybe a full day, before eating again.
Submitted by: Damien

Grazing

This term refers to frequent feedings - eating small amounts of food often.
Submitted by: Phillip
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H

Hard Set

Perform a prescribed number of repetitions of an exercise using maximum effort.
Submitted by: Ken

Hypertrophy

The scientific term denoting an increase in muscle mass and an improvement in relative muscular strength. Hypertrophy is induced by placing an "overload" on the working muscles with various training techniques during a muscle building workout.
Submitted by: Damien
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IFBB

nternational Federation of Bodybuilders, founded in 1946 - group that over-sees worldwide men's and women's amateur and professional bodybuilding.
Submitted by: Damien

Intensity

The relative degree of effort that you put into each set of every exercise in a bodybuilding workout. The more intensity you place on a working muscle, the more quickly it will increase in hypertrophy. The most basic methods of increasing intensity are to use heavier weights in good form in each exercise, do more reps with a set weight, or perform a consistent number of sets and reps with a particular weight in a movement, but progressively reducing the length of rest intervals between sets.
Submitted by: Damien

Isolation Exercise

In contrast to a basic exercise, an isolation movement stresses a single muscle group (or sometimes just part of a single muscle) in relative isolation from the remainder of the body. In all isolation exercises only 1 joint movement is required. Examples are bicep curl, leg extension and tricep extension.
Submitted by: Damien

Isometric Exercise

Muscular contraction where muscle maintains a constant length and joints do not move. These exercises are usually performed against a wall or other immovable object.
Submitted by: Damien

Isotonic Exercise

Muscular action in which there is a change in length of muscle and weight) keeping tension constant. Lifting free weights is a classic isotonic exercise.
Submitted by: Damien
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J

Juice

A slang term for anabolic steroids, e.g., being "on the juice."
Submitted by: Damien
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K

Knee Wraps

Elastic strips about 3-5 inches wide used to wrap knees for better support when performing squats, dead lifts, etc.
Submitted by: Damien
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L

Lats

Abbreviation for latissimus dorsi, the large muscles of the back that move the arms downward, backward and in internal rotation.
Submitted by: Julez

Layoff

Most intelligent bodybuilders take a one or two week layoff from bodybuilding training from time to time, during which they totally avoid the gym.
Submitted by: Feeder01

Lean Body Mass

Everything in the body except fat, including bone, organs, skin, nails and all body tissue including muscle. Approximately 50-60% of lean body mass is water.
Submitted by: Jeff

Lift Off

Assistance in getting weight to proper starting position.
Submitted by: Damien

Ligament

Strong, fibrous band of connecting tissue connecting 2 or more bones or cartilages or supporting a muscle, fascia or organ.
Submitted by: Luke

Linoleic Acid

An essential fatty acid and, more specifically, an omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid. Good sources of this fatty acid are safflower oil and soybean oil.
Submitted by: Plunkett

Linolenic Acid

An essential fatty acid and, more precise an omega-3 poly-unsaturated fatty acid. It is found in high concentrations in flaxseed oil.
Submitted by: Damien

Lock Out

Partial repetition of an exercise by pushing the weight through only last few inches of movement.
Submitted by: Mike

Lower Abs

Abbreviation for abdominal muscles below the navel. Max- Maximum effort for one repetition of an exercise.
Submitted by: Billy
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Mass

The relative size of each muscle group, or of the entire physique. As long as you also have a high degree of muscularity and good balance of physical proportions, muscle mass is a highly prized quality among competitive bodybuilders.
Submitted by: Damien

Meal

Food that's eaten at one time. Each meal should contain a portion (which is the size of the palm of your hand or your clenched fist) of protein and a portion of carbohydrates.
Submitted by: Matt

Metabolic Rate

The rate you convert energy stores into working energy in your body. In other words, it's how Fast your "whole system" runs. The meta-bolic rate is controlled by a number of factors, including: muscle mass (the greater your muscle mass, the greater your metabolic rate), calorie intake, and exercise.
Submitted by: Damien

Metabolism

The use of nutrients by the body. It's the process by which sub-stances come into the body and the rate at which they are used.
Submitted by: Damien

Mid Section

Muscles of abdominal area, including upper and lower abdominals, obliques and rectus abdominis muscles.
Submitted by: G_Man

Military Press

Pressing a barbell from upper chest upward in standing or sitting position.
Submitted by: Matt

Minerals

Naturally occurring, inorganic substances that are essential for human life, which play a role in many vital metabolic processes.
Submitted by: BigJoe

Muscle

Tissue consisting of fibers organized into bands or bundles that contract to cause bodily movement. Muscle fibers run in the same direction as the action they perform.
Submitted by: Milo

Muscle Head

Slang for someone whose life is dominated by muscle building training.
Submitted by: gDotz

Muscle Spazm

Sudden, involuntary contraction of muscle or muscle group.
Submitted by: Damien

Muscle Tone

Condition in which a muscle is in a Constant yet slight state of contraction and appears firm.
Submitted by: Damien

Myositis

Muscular soreness due to inflammation that often Occurs 1-2 days after unaccustomed exercise.
Submitted by: Ben
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M

Negative Reps

One or two partners help you lift a weight up to 50% heavier than you would normally lift to finish point of movement. Then you slowly lower weight on your own.
Submitted by: Damo

Non Locks

Performing an exercise without going through complete range of motion. For example, doing squat without coming to full lockout position of knees or pressing a barbell without locking out elbows.
Submitted by: Damien

Nutrients

Components of food that help nourish the body: that is, they provide energy or serve as "building materials." These nutrients include carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, water, etc.
Submitted by: Jeff

Nutrition

The applied science of eating to foster greater health, fitness, and muscular gains. Through correct application of nutritional practices, you can selectively add muscle mass to your physique, or totally strip away all body fat, revealing the hard-earned muscles lying beneath your skin.
Submitted by: Matt
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O

Obliques

Abbreviation for external obliques, the muscles to either side of abdominals that rotate and flex the trunk.
Submitted by: Jman

Odd Lifts

Exercises used in competition other than snatch and clean and jerk, such as squats, bench presses, and barbell curls.
Submitted by: dpm

Olympic Barbell

A special type of barbell used in weightufting and powerlifting competitions, but also used by bodybuilders in heavy basic exercises such as squats, bench presses, barbell bent rows, standing barbell curls, standing barbell presses, and deadlifts. An Olympic barbell sans collars weighs 45 pounds, and each collar weighs five pounds.
Submitted by: Joe

One Rep Max

The heaviest weight with which a person can complete one full repetition. (e.g. "My max rep on the bench press is 325 pounds.")
Submitted by: Gym_Junkie

Onion Skin

Slang denoting skin with very low percentage of subcutaneous fat which helps accentuate muscularity.
Submitted by: RedHat

Optimal Nutrition

The best possible nutrition; distinct from merely adequate nutrition, which is characterized by no overt deficiency. This term describes people free from marginal deficiencies, imbalances, and toxicities, and who are not at risk for such.
Submitted by: Damien

Overload Principal

Applying a greater load than normal to a muscle to increase its capability
Submitted by: Damien
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P

Partial Reps

Performing an exercise without going through a complete range of motion either at the beginning or end of a rep.
Submitted by: Damien

Peak Contraction

Exercising a muscle until it cramps by using shortened movements. Pecs - Abbreviation for pectoral muscles of the chest.
Submitted by: Damien

Pecs or Pectorals

The large muscles of the chest.
Submitted by: OZMuscle

Plates

The flat discs placed on the ends of barbell and dumbbell bars to increase the weight of the apparati. Although some plates are made from vinyl-covered con-crete, the best and most durable plates are manufactured from metal.
Submitted by: Damien

Portion

The amount of carbohydrates or protein one should eat with each meal. A portion is the size of the palm of your hand or your clenched fist.
Submitted by: Matt

Poundage

The amount of weight that you use in an exercise, whether that weight is on a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
Submitted by: Matt

Power Lifting

A second form of competitive weightlifting (not contested in the Olympics, however) featuring three lifts: the squat, bench press, and deadlift. Power lifting is contested both nationally and internationally in a wide variety of weight classes.
Submitted by: Damien

Power Lifts

Three movements used in powerlifting competition: the squat, bench press and dead lift.
Submitted by: Damien

Power Training

System of weight training using low repetitions, heavy weights.
Submitted by: Jake

Progression

The act of gradually adding to the amount of resistance that you use in each exercise. Without consistent progression in your workouts, you won't overload your muscles sufficiently to promote optimum increases in hypertrophy.
Submitted by: MikeyB

Progressive Resistance

Method of training where weight is increased as muscles gain strength and endurance, the backbone of all weight training.
Submitted by: Jake

Protein

Proteins are the building blocks of muscle, enzymes, and sonic hor-mones. They are made up of amino acids and are essential for growth and repair in the body. A gram of protein contains four calories. Those from ani-mal sources contain the essential amino acids. Those from vegetable sources contain some but not all of the essential amino acids. Proteins are broken up by the body to produce amino acids.
Submitted by: Damien

Pump AKA "the pump"

The tight, blood-congested feeling in a muscle after it has been intensely trained. Muscle pump is caused by a rapid influx of blood into the muscles to remove fatigue toxins and replace supplies of fuel and oxygen. A good muscle pump indicates that you have optimally worked a muscle group.
Submitted by: Damien

Pumping Iron

Phrase that has been in use since the 1950s, but recently greatly popularized. Lifting weights.
Submitted by: Matt

Pumpted

Slang meaning the muscles have been made large by increasing blood supply to them through exercise.
Submitted by: Damien
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Q

Quads

Abbreviation for quadriceps femoris muscles, muscles on top of legs, which consist of 4 parts (heads).
Submitted by: Damien

Quality Training

Training just before bodybuilding competition where intervals between sets are drastically reduced to enhance muscle mass and density, and low-calorie diet is followed to reduce body fat.
Submitted by: Jake
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R

Range of Motion (ROM)

Refers to the limits of motion of the joints and muscles associated with an exercise.
Submitted by: StockyGuy

Rep

The number of times you lift and lower a weight in one set of an exercise. For example, if you lift and lower a weight 10 times before set-ting the weight down, you have completed 10 "reps" in one set.
Submitted by: Damien

Rep Out

Repeat the same exercise over and over until you are unable to do any more.
Submitted by: Damien

Reps

Abbreviation for REPETITIONS.
Submitted by: MikeyB

Resistance Training

Working out with weights or using your body to resist some other force. This includes a wide spectrum of motion, from push-ups to dumbbell curls.
Submitted by: Juke

Rest Interval

Pause between sets of an exercise.
Submitted by: Damien

Rest Period

The amount of time you allow between sets and exercises.
Submitted by: Damien

Rest-Pause Training

Training method where you press out one difficult repetition, then replace bar in stands, then after a 10-20 second rest, do another rep, etc.
Submitted by: Damien

Ripped

Slang meaning extreme muscularity.
Submitted by: Damien

Roid or Roids

Slang for ANABOLIC STEROID.
Submitted by: Damien

Routine

Also called a training schedule or program, a routine is the total list of exercises, sets, and reps (and sometimes weights) used in one training session.
Submitted by: Jeff
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S

Saturated fats

These are bad fats. They are called saturated because they contain no open spots on their carbon skeletons. These bad fats have been shown to raise cholesterol levels in the body. Sources of these fats include animal foods and hydrogenated vegetable oils, such as margarine.
Submitted by: Mike

Set

Group of reps (lifting and lowering a weight) of an exercise after which you take a brief rest period. For example, if you complete 10 reps, set the weight down, complete eight more reps, set the weight down again, and repeat for six more reps, you have completed three sets of the exercise.
Submitted by: MikeyB

Slow Twitch Muscle

Muscle cells that contract slowly, are resistant to fatigue and are utilized in endurance activities such as long-distance running, cycling or swimming.
Submitted by: Damien

Spot

Assist if called upon by someone performing an exercise.
Submitted by: Damien

Spotter

Training partners who stand by to act as safety helpers when you perform such heavy exercises as squats and bench presses. If you get stuck under the weight or begin to lose control of it, spotters can rescue you and prevent needless injuries.
Submitted by: Damien

Steriods AKA Roids

Prescription drugs which mimic male hor-mones, but without most of the androgenic side effects of actual testosterone. Many bodybuilders use these danger-ous drugs to help increase muscle mass and strength.
Submitted by: Micheal

Strength

The ability of a muscle to produce maximum amount of force.
Submitted by: Jules

Strength Training

Using resistance weight training to build maximum muscle force.
Submitted by: Jeff

Stretch

A type of exercise program in which you assume exaggerated postures that stretch muscles, joints, and connective tissues, hold these positions for several seconds, relax and then repeat the postures. Regular stretching exercise promotes body flexibility.
Submitted by: Damien

Stretch Marks

Tears (slight scars) in skin caused if muscle or fat tissue has expanded in volume faster than skin can grow.
Submitted by: Bender

Superset

A superset is when one set is done directly after the other with no rest in between. For example a superset could be bench press and dumbell flies.
Submitted by: Damien

Supplement

This is a term used to describe a preparation such as a tablet, pill, or powder that contains nutrients. Supplements are used to help you achieve optimal nutrient intake.
Submitted by: d_Man

Symmetry

The shape or general outline of a person's body, as when seen in silhouette. If you have good sym-metry, you will have relatively wide shoulders, flaring lats, a small waist-hip structure, and generally small joints.
Submitted by: Damien
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T

Tendon

A band or cord of strong, fibrous tissue that connects muscles to bone.
Submitted by: Suxcess

Testosterone

The male hormone primarily responsible for the maintenance of muscle mass and strength induced by heavy training. Testosterone is secondarily responsible for developing such secondary male sex characteristics as a deep voice, body hair, and male pattern baldness.
Submitted by: Damien

Training Straps

Cotton or leather straps wrapped around wrists, then under and over a bar held by clenched hands to aid in certain lifts (rowing, chin-ups, shrugs, dead lifts, cleans, etc.) where you might lose your grip before working muscle to desired capacity-
Submitted by: Damien

Training to Failure

Continuing a set until it is impossible to compete another rep without assistance.
Submitted by: Damien

Traps

Abbreviation for trapezius muscles, the largest muscles of the back and neck that draw head backward and rotate scapula.
Submitted by: Damien

Tri Sets

Alternating back and forth between 3 exercises until prescribed number of sets is completed.
Submitted by: Damien

Trimming Down

To gain hard muscular appearance by losing body fat.
Submitted by: Damien
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U

Unsaturated Fat

These are 'good' fats. They are called unsaturated because they have one or more open spots on their carbon skeletons. This category of fats includes the essential fatty acids linoleic and linolenic. The main sources of these fats are fromm plant foods, such as safflower, sunflower, arid flaxseed oils.
Submitted by: Matt
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V

Variable Resistance

Strength training equipment where the machine varies amount of weight being lifted to match strength curve for a particular exercise-usually with a cam, lever arm or hydraulic cylinder. Also referred to as "ACCOMMODATING RESISTANCE."
Submitted by: Damien

Vascularity

Increase in size and number of observable veins. Highly desirable in bodybuilding.
Submitted by: Matt

Vitamins

Organic compounds that are vital to Tile, indispensable to bodily function, and needed in minute amounts. They are calorie-free essential nutrients. Many of them function as coenzymes. supporting a multitude of biological functions.
Submitted by: Damien
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W

Warm Up

The 10-15-minute session of light calisthenics, aerobic exercise, and stretching taken prior to handling heavy bodybuilding training movements. A good warm-up helps to prevent injuries and actually allows you to get more out of your training than if you went into a workout totally cold.
Submitted by: Jake

Weight Lifting Belt or "weight belt"

Thick leather belt used to support lower back. Used while doing squats, military presses, dead lifts, bent rowing, etc


Workout

A bodybuilding or weight-training session.
Submitted by: Damien
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