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Term | Definition |
Calorie | The energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C. |
Macro | Short for macronutrients, which a type of food (fat, protein, and carbohydrate). Each has its use in the body, like how protein is used to build muscle. |
Carb | Short for carbohydrates. |
BMI | Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of body fat based on height and weight that applies to adult men and women. |
Body Fat Percentage | The amount of lipids you carry ➗ body weight ✖️ 100. |
Cutting | The phase where you lose body fat by reducing your overall calories and maybe increasing exercise. |
Lean-Bulking | The phase where you begin to maximize muscle growth by eating in a calorie surplus and following the workout Program 2. |
Hypertrophy | The enlargement of an organ or tissue from the increase in size of its cells (AKA muscle growth) |
ROM | Short for a range of motion, it is the amount of movement around a specific joint or body part. |
Rep | Short for repetition, it is one complete motion of an exercise. |
Set | A set is a group of consecutive repetitions. Two sets of ten reps of crunches would mean that you did ten consecutive crunches, rested, and then did another ten crunches. |
Tempo | The speed at which a rep occurs. |
RPE | Short for Rating of Perceived Exertion, RPE is a way of measuring your physical intensity level on a 1 to 10 scale.
For example, if you rate an exercise at 9 RPE, that means you could have only done one more afterward and then met failure. |
DOMS | Short for Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness, it's the soreness you get after exercising. |
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