Isometric exercises, like planks and wall sits, have proven to be highly effective in lowering blood pressure. This practice, ...

When it comes to reducing blood pressure, many assume that activities like jogging or weightlifting are the best approach.

The key players: concentric, eccentric, and isometric muscle contractions. Most exercises and everyday actions (think: walking, picking up and holding your groceries) involve a mixture of ...

Leg lifting exercises are efficient at targeting your lower abdominal muscles — think leg raises or reverse crunches, for example. But you don’t need to move your joints and muscles through a range of ...

Background Most studies of exercise-induced muscle injury have focussed on eccentric contractions, which are known to produce damage and delayed soreness. It is less well known that isometric ...

Here, the muscles are contracting isometrically to hold this gymnast in the crucifix position and are not changing length. When the isometric contractions end, isotonic contraction will occur.

Here, the muscles are contracting isometrically to hold this gymnast in the crucifix position and are not changing length. When the isometric contractions end, isotonic contraction will occur.

The contract-relax method involves putting a muscle into a stretched position, followed immediately by an isometric contraction of the same muscle. When the person stops contracting, the muscle is ...

The purpose of this study was to compare an acute bout of either isometric or isotonic muscle contractions on patellar tendon pain and function and maximal voluntary isometric leg extension torque.

But take a look at your body under a microscope, and you’ll see that your working muscles are actually contracting in completely different ways depending on the phase of the exercise you’re in ...