{"id":1490,"date":"2017-02-01T03:43:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T08:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usefulnews.org\/home\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2017-02-12T18:14:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T23:14:05","slug":"isometric-contractions-for-the-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/usefulnews.org\/home\/isometric-contractions-for-the-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Isometric Contractions for the Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you strengthen and develop the upper back without apparatus? Let&#039;s look at a simple isometric. Isometrics have traditionally been taught as 6-10 second contractions. Continue to breathe as you contract and resist against an object and hold that contraction for 20-30 seconds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ytg-video-url\">\n<div class=\"newsbuilder-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NQaWmQFyKCI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsbuilder-tags\"><strong>TAGS: <\/strong><span><a href=\"http:\/\/usefulnews.org\/home\/tag\/dynamic-tension\/\" rel=\"tag\">Dynamic Tension<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/usefulnews.org\/home\/tag\/focused-muscular-tension\/\" rel=\"tag\">Focused Muscular Tension<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/usefulnews.org\/home\/tag\/isometrics\/\" rel=\"tag\">Isometrics<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/usefulnews.org\/home\/tag\/lionquest-fitness\/\" rel=\"tag\">Lionquest Fitness<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/usefulnews.org\/home\/tag\/upper-back-isometrics\/\" rel=\"tag\">Upper Back Isometrics<\/a> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you strengthen and develop the upper back without apparatus? Let&#039;s look at a simple isometric. Isometrics have traditionally been taught as 6-10 second contractions. Continue to breathe as you contract and resist against an object and hold that contraction for 20-30 seconds. TAGS: Dynamic TensionFocused Muscular TensionIsometricsLionquest FitnessUpper Back Isometrics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,2013,2017],"tags":[1599,1598,1597,1601,1600],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exercise","category-general-exercise","category-isometrics","tag-dynamic-tension","tag-focused-muscular-tension","tag-isometrics","tag-lionquest-fitness","tag-upper-back-isometrics","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/usefulnews.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/usefulnews.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/usefulnews.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usefulnews.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usefulnews.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/usefulnews.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"http:\/\/usefulnews.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usefulnews.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/usefulnews.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usefulnews.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usefulnews.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}