Reps pertain to the number of times you execute a specific exercise’s movement. For instance, when you curl the barbell 10 times in one set, that’s 10 reps of barbell curls.

Recovery entails taking some time off from hard training to recuperate. Here, you practise good nutrition habits, take supplements, and get enough sleep so you’ll not only grow muscle mass, but boost long-term health as well.

This is a shortened version of the quadriceps muscle which is located in the thigh’s anterior portion. The best quads exercises include lunges, back squats, split squats, goblet squats, and leg presses.

This is the process of increasing the duration, frequency, or intensity of an exercise in order to achieve your fitness goals and make progress.

Physical fitness is the ability to perform daily tasks without feeling unduly fatigued. Its components include body composition, cardiorespiratory endurance, flexibility, muscular endurance, power, and strength.

This pertains to any body movement which entails energy expenditure. Whilst strength training is a prime example, gardening, walking, and dancing also count as physical activities.

These are low-intensity exercises which don’t stress the bones and joints as much. Examples include walking, swimming, and cycling.

This refers to the Latissimus dorsi muscle, the large, triangular-shaped muscle in the upper back which helps the arms pull one’s body weight up.

This is another term for high-intensity interval training (HIIT), where one alternates periods of low-intensity and high-intensity aerobic exercise for greater fat loss.

Guns refer to arm muscles, particularly the biceps and triceps. Flaunting one’s guns means to show off muscular arms which are a product of biceps curls, concentration curls, preacher curls, and the like.

This is a component of physical fitness pertaining to stretching, which helps increase one’s range of motion. Stretching types include static, dynamic, and active isolated stretching (AIS).

Training to failure implies performing repetitions until you can’t do them anymore in order to promote muscle growth.

Also known as deltoids, this is the main muscle of the shoulder which is responsible for its extension, flexion, and abduction movements.

As the term implies, cross-training means playing another sport to boost fitness levels in one’s main sport. An example is doing yoga to complement one’s bodybuilding program.

This is a type of muscle activation where the muscle produces force whilst it’s shortening in length. For instance, during a biceps curl, the biceps muscles shorten in length as you lift the barbell.

This pertains to several exercises where one does them continuously with little to no rest between sets. An example is jump rope, jumping jacks, bodyweight squats, lunges, push-ups, and leg swings.

This branch of bodybuilding mainly deals with bodyweight exercises such as dips, push-ups, crunches, and pull-ups.

This type of moderate- intensity physical activity leverages oxygen to help improve cardiorespiratory fitness. Examples include jogging, walking, swimming, running, and biking.

Also known as one-rep max, this refers to the maximum amount of weight an individual can lift for a single repetition.

This test aims to make sure that you can still respond to questions during your workout, but not be able to converse as comfortably as you usually do.