Tempo is the speed of execution of an exercise and corresponds to the different muscle contractions throughout a movement: eccentric, concentric, isometric.
Additionally, the tempo used for a given exercise has a significant impact on what type of quality is trained and/or the OPT model phase being utilized in an exercise program. Therefore, you want to make sure that you’re lining up exercise tempo with the training phase goal.
In this video, Axiom Fitness Academy instructor Joe Drake breaks down the training tempos used in NASM OPT Model of programming and explains how to read the corresponding numerical format.
Want to learn more about the NASM OPT Model? Check out this video: https://youtu.be/_z-1NFeN4y4
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