Curious about something I saw at the gym

knittnponder

I am new to going to the gym and pretty novice when it comes to weight lifting so I'm hoping someone can explain something to me. Tonight while at the gym I saw several people (men and women) using very light weights to do these kind of "twitchy" lifts? I'm not quite sure how to explain it. They were doing very short, quick versions of exercises I'm familiar with like bicep curls, fly 's and overhead presses. They would only move the weight an inch or two and fairly fast and they didn't do very many.

Like I said, I'm new, so could someone tell me what this was about? Is there some benefit to this that I'm missing out on? I felt kind of self conscious curling 20 pound dumbells next to a guy doing those twitchy things with 5 pounders.

Stripeness

http://www.muscleandfitness.com/workouts/workout-tips/increase-your-strength-partials

There you go - probably best to carry on with full range of motion unless/until you need to add more focused techniques. And guys doing partials probably know what's what. Good question, though! :bigsmile:

knittnponder

Thank you! They looked like they'd had some good results so I figured they must have a reason for what they were doing but I couldn't figure it out. I appreciate the education.