{"id":1144,"date":"2013-05-12T00:32:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T00:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drmirkin.com\/fitness\/9201.html"},"modified":"2013-05-12T00:32:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T00:32:13","slug":"9201","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/?p=1144","title":{"rendered":"Isometric Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Can you become very strong by doing isometric exercises in which you push against something that doesn&#8217;t move, such as a wall?<\/p>\n<p>The single stimulus to make a muscle stronger is to exercise a muscle against a resistance; therefore, you can become strong by doing isometric exercises. However, there are two drawbacks: isometrics can raise your blood pressure very high, and they make you stronger over a limited range of motion.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone&#8217;s blood pressure rises during exercise, but isometrics cause the highest rise of all. When you push against an object that doesn&#8217;t move, your muscles contract and squeeze the blood vessels so hard that it raises blood pressure higher than with moving a weight continuously. Also, isometric contractions make you stronger only within 20 degrees of the angle you hold, but moving a weight make you stronger over a wider range of motion.<\/p>\n<p>Checked 3\/12\/12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you become very strong by doing isometric exercises in which you push against something that doesn&#8217;t move, such as a wall? The single stimulus to make a muscle stronger is to exercise a muscle against a resistance; therefore, you can become strong by doing isometric exercises. However, there are two drawbacks: isometrics can raise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}