Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Body Part Iso is a Big No No - Why Full Body Workouts are Much Better

Why do people want to isolate certain muscles anyway? First off the body doesn't work well with body part isolation. the body works much better with the complex movements of a full body workout. Large parts of the body help smaller parts of the body by completing complex movements. To be truly honest there really no such thing as body part isolation. In almost every case there's a nearby muscle group and joints that will help with whatever movement or exercise your trying to attempt. Overall, this article gives you the pros and cons of what single joint workouts can do to your body in the long run vs. what full body works and more complex movements can do for your body in the long run.
By attempting to try to isolate muscles by performing a single joint exercise, you are really making your body more injury prone and non functional. you are creating a body that has strength in single joints rather than others instead of a powerful work of art that works as one whole unit. muscle isolation is great if you want to end up hopping around in body riddled with joint pain and injuries. muscle isolation can also cause excess body fat. So if this is the body you want go ahead with trying to isolate body parts. On the flip side of things if you want a body that looks like it was sculpted by the gods you need to turn all your attention away from muscle isolation.
If you ask any one of the players in the NFL about body part isolation they will look at you crazy. These guys are crazy ripped and they never do body part isolation. single joint workouts don't burn half the calories as much as a full body exercise would. with a complex movement workout you will see that it's much easier to lose weight vs. a muscle isolation workout. All this is possible because your metabolic rate is being accelerated and production of fat burning and muscle building hormones such as testosterone and other growth hormones are being increased. For example the leg extension machine only works the quads mainly. This can cause knee joint problems in the close to near future. Plus it doesn't burn much calories. Now full body workouts focusing on your chest arms and legs are complex movements that work hundreds of muscles including the quad as one unit. This also burns a crazy amount of calories.
I do believe that complex full body workouts should consume your workout but you can benefit from very small inclusions of single joint exercises. In my opinion your workout should be 85 to 95 % of full body workouts and only 5 to 10 % single joint work outs.
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