Weights Final
Weights Final
Vocabulary Words:
List #1- Vocabulary Words
Atrophy the wasting away or decrease in size of a body part, particularly muscle
Hypertrophy the increase in size of a body part, particularly muscle
Progression a gradual increase in the level of exercise in order to sustain improvement in physical
fitness
Specificity principle of training that states the exercise training effect is specific to the muscles
involved in the activity
Antagonistic muscles a muscle that opposes the action of the other, i.e. triceps and biceps are
antagonistic muscles