isometric hold
Motionless muscle tension
An isometric hold is a strength exercise where you maintain a fixed position under tension without moving—holding a plank, staying at the bottom of a squat, or keeping your arms extended.
The muscle contracts but doesn't change length.
I added a thirty-second isometric hold at the top of each rep.
- staticWithout motion or change
- plankFlat timber piece
- tensionStretched or strained state
- muscleContractile body tissue
- contractionReduction in size
endurance · wall sit · horse stance · dead hang · squeeze · glute bridge · burn · feel the burn · shake · breathe · just breathe · core · strength · duration · stability · fatigue · don't quit · tremble
- exercise variationssingle leg, wide stance, narrow stance, overhand grip, underhand grip
- core exercisescrunches, crunch, sit-up, sit-ups, planks
- workout trainingsets, reps, intervals, circuit, superset
movement pattern
isometric holdrepetition
Act of redoing
dynamic movement · rep · continuous motion · running · jumping
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