How to Use isometric in a Sentence

isometric

adjective
  • Try an isometric exercise for a change of pace in your core routine.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 28 May 2017
  • Pull that same knee up, and create an isometric contraction on that side.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Kill Knight is a brutal, dark, grim isometric game, but your demonic knight has guns.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Add an isometric hold at the top of the movement by holding the position for at least one second.
    — Tiffany Ayuda, SELF, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Each round consists of isometric plank holds, subtle forward and backward tilts, and twists and dips to work your obliques.
    — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Split squat isometric hold Activate your core and engage your glutes.
    — Andy Fata-Chan, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The moves that have worked for me are hinges, isometric holds, single-leg workouts, and upping my leg workouts to three days a week.
    — Women's Health, 6 June 2023
  • Barre classes are total body workouts made up of small, isometric movements that take their cues from ballet warm-ups.
    — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 14 July 2018
  • Brief gameplay scenes showed a squad of marines shooting at Xenomorphs from an isometric perspective.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 9 June 2022
  • The wall sit basically takes the isometric portion of the squat and blows it out into its own, leg-quaking move.
    — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Bastion is an action role-playing game that takes place in a bizarre cartoon world with an isometric perspective.
    — Jason Schreier, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2011
  • Also, planks are an isometric exercise where your body is held in one position for a set period.
    — Mallory Creveling, Health, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Pure Barre consists of small, isometric movements that produce fast results.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2020
  • The isometric contraction occurs when the force your muscles create is equal to the force of your external load.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 30 June 2023
  • This move is also an isometric core position, this time strengthening the oblique muscles.
    — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The team says that isometric exercise should be used to complement other forms of movement, not replace it.
    — Laura Hensley, Verywell Health, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Which is why the humble plank, an isometric hold, is the single most effective training exercise for it.
    — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 16 May 2021
  • Classes at the studio utilize the ballet barre to perform small isometric movements set to music.
    — Vagney Bradley, Houston Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The isometric workouts like yoga, pilates and barre are 30 minutes.
    — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 June 2021
  • An isometric exercise is a strength exercise that doesn't involve a change in muscle length or joint position.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 8 Oct. 2018
  • Pure Barre focuses on isometric movements to build strength and lean muscles without impact.
    — Candice Terrell/share, Cincinnati.com, 7 June 2019
  • Wrapping your head around the totality of their case is an isometric mental exercise that creates a sinewy strain between faith and fact.
    — Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The hollow-body hold exercise works your muscles through an isometric contraction, Williams says.
    — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Tyranny stands tall among the greats in the isometric CRPG tradition.
    — Chuong Nguyen and Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The isometric portion of the exercise happens between these other two phases.
    — Greg Presto, Men's Health, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Just be sure your system is up to snuff for the series' original isometric RPG goodness.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2017
  • That could mean doing a brief power walk at lunch or filling little bouts of downtime with an isometric exercise that’s easy to do in an office or home setting.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Changing tempo with slower reps, pauses at the bottom or top of an exercise, and isometric holds all increase time under tension.
    — Dana Santas, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Continue to push upward with your legs against the resistance of the towel with maximal effort for three to four seconds (isometric phase).
    — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2021
  • This type of training is known as isometric, or static, exercise, according to the Mayo Clinic.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024

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