Home > Blossary: Weight Training Equipment

Category: Sports

10 Terms

Created by: stanley soerianto

Number of Blossarys: 107

My Terms
Collected Terms
Czech (CS)
Compare Language

An exercise ball is a ball constructed of soft elastic with a diameter of approximately 35 to 85 centimeters (14 to 34 inches) and filled with air. The air pressure is changed by removing a valve ...

Domain: Sporting goods; Category: Exercise equipment

Weightlifting belts, which are meant to brace the core through intra-abdominal pressure. Controversy exists regarding the safety of these devices and their proper use is often misunderstood.

Domain: Sporting goods; Category: Exercise equipment

Lifting straps, which allow more weight to be lifted by transferring the load to the wrists and avoiding limitations in forearm muscles and grip strength.

Domain: Sporting goods; Category: Exercise equipment

The leg press is a weight training exercise in which the individual pushes a weight or resistance away from them using their legs. The term leg press also refers to the apparatus used to perform this ...

Domain: Sporting goods; Category: Exercise equipment

The Smith machine is a piece of equipment used in weight training. It consists of a barbell that is fixed within steel rails, allowing only vertical movement. New variations allow a small amount of ...

Domain: Sporting goods; Category: Exercise equipment

A cable machine is an item of equipment used in weight training or functional training. It consists of a rectangular, vertically oriented steel frame about 3 metres wide and 2 metres high, with a ...

Domain: Sporting goods; Category: Exercise equipment

A stack machine—also called a stack or rack—has a set of massive rectangular plates that are pierced by a vertical bar which has holes drilled in it to accept a pin. Each of the plates has a channel ...

Domain: Sporting goods; Category: Exercise equipment

Member comments


( You can type up to 200 characters )

Post  
My other Blossarys

Blossary containing nerve cell related deseases.

Category: Health

By: stanley soerianto

Fitness trackers will someday be obviated by ...

Category: Technology

By: stanley soerianto

Some of the most renowned actors of the United ...

Category: Entertainment

By: stanley soerianto

The aim of this list of programming languages is ...

Category: Languages

By: stanley soerianto