I have this belief that since during an isolation exercise, you're doing only the muscle you are planning on working, or just that muscle and maybe one or two other small ones, you're going to get stronger slower? Right?
Since you don't want to try and use your other muscles to get it up?
Almost like you might not be able to TRUELY increase the weight except maybe every 2 weeks at the most if you're doing PERFECT and i mean perfect form.
Even if you do, its probably due to another compound exercise. For example: You're doing squats first thing monday morning, then you do curls right after. the next week you're curls are a bit easier so you should raise the weight... its prolly cause of the squats, not the curls...
Anyone agree with me even the tiniest bit? B/c as I think back to it, its hard to do perfect bent lat raises with a lot of weight. im using like 15's, then 17.5's, then 20's for my three sets, and getting reps of like 10,10, 6-8 or something like that....
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08-03-2005, 07:28 PM #1Rehab Science Student
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Isolation Exercises take long to build muscle with
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08-03-2005, 07:52 PM #2Rehab Science Student
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bump ya bios
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08-03-2005, 08:51 PM #3The Gun Show
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Ive always been a very strogn supporter of isolation movements over compound movements.
From what has been said of my arms over the past few years I disagree strongly that compound movements are needed to build everything else.
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08-04-2005, 05:04 PM #4Rehab Science Student
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thats ok. anyone else think otherwise?
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08-04-2005, 05:18 PM #5Macho Man
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I dont know. I think it might be different for certain people. My friend has huge triceps and he doesn't do many tricep isolation excercises. But, when I started hitting the tricep pulldown twice a week I started gettin results.
I <3 lifting
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08-04-2005, 05:22 PM #6
i think certain isolation excerises are useful to improve in compound excerises. example: you do triceps isolations to improve your benchpress
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08-04-2005, 06:38 PM #7Registered User
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I do them to improve the size of my arm, I couldn;t care a less what im lifting, I care when i stop growingOriginally Posted by Xikaj
but my bench has gone up as my tri's get stronger, your body is a unit, it works together IMO
Lifter,"Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless." Bruce Lee
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08-05-2005, 05:27 AM #8Rehab Science Student
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i agree with that
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but my bench has gone up as my tri's get stronger, your body is a unit, it works together IMO
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