isotonic exercise

1. 1.

   exercise in which opposing muscles contract and there is controlled movement (tension is constant while the lengths of the muscles change)

   “the classic isotonic exercise is lifting free weights”

   Broaderexercise

Questions about isotonic exercise

What does isotonic exercise mean?

isotonic exercise means "exercise in which opposing muscles contract and there is controlled movement (tension is constant while the lengths of the muscles change)".

Is isotonic exercise a common word?

isotonic exercise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.