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Sunday, August 26, 2018

Workout Tutorial: Compound and Isolation Exercises

In fitness, we know various kinds of training methods. Well, there are two training methods that are often used by fitness mania to form maximum muscle, namely the training method is compound and isolation movements. What does it mean? Let me explain them one by one. 

COMPOUND MOVEMENT 

Definition of compound movements is combined movements. In other words, compound movement is a movement that involves more than one part of the muscle. Examples of compound movements are bench presses, deadlifts, pull ups, squats, lunges and others. This movement is the opposite of the isolation movement, which only targets one type of muscle for one movement.


For example, when you do bench press exercises, not only is your chest muscle working, but the shoulder muscles and tricep muscles also work, so that when you do a bench press regularly, your arm muscles are also formed. So don't be surprised if you are still a beginner and when you do a bench press, after that your arm feels tired and painful.

Muscle training using compound movements provides many benefits. Among them is that you can train and combine your muscle movements in one movement, so you don't need too long to form your body's muscles. Another advantage is that it can minimize the risk of excessive muscle fatigue, because in one movement, there are many muscles that work and you don't just focus on one muscle movement.

ISOLATION MOVEMENT 

Isolation movement is the opposite of a compound movement, which is a movement that only focuses on one part of a particular muscle when you do one movement repeatedly. Examples of isolation movements are pushdown triceps, bicep curl, hammer curl, sit ups and others.

This isolation movement allows you to focus more on forming a type of muscle that you think is lacking. The purpose of the isolation movement is to form muscles to be more defined (lean) sharp and dry.

In conducting isolation movements, it is important to pay attention to the weight of the load used. Why? Because if the load is too heavy, for example to practice dumbbell curl, the target of the affected muscle will not only focus on the biceps, but also on the shoulder or neck muscles. Well, here's the wrong isolation movement.

So, in this isolation movement it is very important for you to regulate the right movements perfect movements, rather than just attaching to heavy loads. However, the load that you use is also not recommended too lightly, because the load that is too light will not form muscles to the fullest.

Of course the advantage of this isolation movement is that you can practice with more focus on certain parts of the muscle, so that the results obtained for the part of the muscles that you really want, will be more visible. You can also rest other muscles that may be tired, or injured.

HOW TO DO COMPOUND AND ISOLATION MOVEMENT? 

You can do compound and isolation movements simultaneously while you are training. For example, in one day of exercise, you choose to train bicep and chest. For bicep exercises, you can try training hammer curl (isolation movement), and bench press (compound movement) for chest muscles. There is no problem. 

But like I said before, you also have to pay attention to the perfect movement, and the burden you use, not to overweight, because the focus of your muscles will split, and you will not get maximum results.

Hope this article help you to answer the question: The difference beetween compound movement and isolation movement... 

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