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1.Common terms often seen in the gym

A.Gym vocabulary

Exercise: A combination of exercises, postures, movements, breathing methods… aimed at training a muscle group or a muscle that you want to develop. For example, arm exercises, leg exercises or chest exercises.

Number of Reps: Is the maximum number of repetitions of a movement in 1 set without the need for outside help. If you lift weights, the number of reps will show the level of heaviness or lightness of the weight.

For example, pushing 50kg 2 reps is heavy for your strength, but pushing 100kg 10 reps is light for your strength.

Number of Sets: Is the number of times you practice each movement in a gym session.

Cardio: The literal meaning of this term is cardiovascular. In the gym, cardio means endurance exercises, this exercise is very good for the cardiovascular system and helps burn excess fat. Cardio is an exercise that helps develop muscle groups for body flexibility, including forms of exercise such as walking, jogging, jumping rope, etc.

Isolation: Meaning isolated, used to refer to exercises that affect 1 muscle or 1 muscle group.

Compound: Combined, synthesized, used to refer to exercises that affect many muscle groups or many muscles at the same time. For example: The exercise of lying on a barbell bench press affects the same shoulder muscles, chest muscles and triceps muscles.

Rep max (Repetition Maximum): Means the maximum weight, you will have to put all your strength and spirit into lifting, pulling, and pushing the weight only once during the workout. No matter how hard you try, it is difficult to repeat it a second time. The phrase Rep max is also understood as the maximum limit for a person at a certain time.

Failure: Means failure, not being able to complete anything more. If you often follow gym forums, you will definitely see the phrase “practice until failure”. It means not being able to lift another rep, even if you try your best, that is the limit of the muscle, practicing more will only overload the muscle or make the muscle tired.

Warming up: Means warming up the muscle, often used at the beginning of the workout, lightly warming up the whole body with weights or jogging to warm up the muscle groups.

Overtraining: Means overtraining, when the intensity or weight of a person exceeds his or her ability to recover, trying to train will lead to overtraining. This can lead to the consequence of muscles not being able to develop, in some cases it will cause loss of muscle strength.

HIIT (High Intensive Interval Training): Means high intensity training, HIIT was developed by Dorian Yates (The person who has won the world bodybuilding championship more than 5 times). HIIT training means you have to train with heavy weights with about 8-10 reps in 1 set, and in a short time must make the muscles that need to be trained reach maximum muscle fatigue. HIIT in short means extremely large impact in a short time.

Pump: Means the phenomenon of blood rushing to the muscles when training. Muscle pump will make the muscles tense up.

B.Terminology of common exercises in the gym

Barbell: 1 barbell, weights, 2 ends with weight plates.

Dumbbell: 1 short barbell, single barbell, 2 ends with fixed weight plates.

Squats, Row, Leg press, Pull ups…v..v…

C.Nutritional Terms in the Gym

Protein: Means protein, the component that creates the structure and ability to contract of muscles, this is an indispensable component when building muscles. Protein is often found in fish, meat, milk, eggs.

Carb (Carbohydrate): That is starch, which has the effect of creating energy for the body’s activities, carbs are often found in fresh fruit, sugar, honey or complex carbs such as corn, potatoes, …

Fat: Fat is a source of nutrients and energy needed to build cells.

Calories: Called energy. The body can function thanks to Calories from food taken in and accumulated inside the body. The amount of calories consumed and consumed is related to each person’s weight gain or loss.

II. Conclusion
The above is an article sharing the most common terms used at the gym. Hopefully, this will help you understand them more easily when starting your training journey.