Glossary

Circuit Training- Quickly going from one exercise or lift to another to keep the heart rate up and fatigues muscles
Cross-fit- The mix of different activities and exercises into your regular workout to cause muscle confuion, to keep your workouts fun, and to get a more complete workout. These activities include swimming, cycling, and running.

Fast Twitch Muscles- Muscle fibers that contract more quickly than slow twitch muscle fibers that equate to overall quickness and power.

Free Weights- Weights that are not attached to a machine with a cable or chain.

Kinectic Lifts- Exercises that involve covering a distance. For example, bear crawls, plyometric box jumps, sprinting, etc.

M.A.D.- Making a Difference

Plyometric Exercise or "Plyo"- Where muscles are quickly loaded for an action, the action is completed, and the muscles are loaded again. For example, jumping onto a bench then jumping off, and then back on again for multiple repetitions.

Repetition or "Rep"- How many of the lifts or exercises you do. For example, if you bench press ten times you have completed ten reps.

Set- A given number of reps in an exercise or lift. 3 sets of 8 reps would mean you have done 8 reps of a particular exercise 3 times.

Static Lifts- A prticular lift where the person doing the lift does not cover any distance. For example, bench press, curls, squats, etc.

Superset- A combination of a certain lift and a body weight exercise that are done together. For example, after doing a set of bench press, immediately do 10 pushups.