Selecting lats requires a bar. Any workouts for them without equipment?
If you have access to a playground with monkey bars, pullups is the obvious least equipment choice.
Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle
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#12Selecting lats requires a bar. Any workouts for them without equipment?
Back is generally pretty hard to impossible to train without equipment. You could do rows with a backpack / other household objects or elastic bands with a contraption that anchors behind a door so you can do pull downs.
You can try to find a nice fat reinforced pipe in the parking deck near you ;), or get one of those pull up bars that attach above the door frame.
If you're looking for a good workout setup for home with minimal equipment, try the TRX suspension training system. You can anchor it behind a door and do a full body workout using body weight. It fits in a small bag so it's mobile and allows you to anchor it at a bar in the nearest park and do outdoor exercises.
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#13Why do they distinguish between genders? Pretty sure curls are going to work the biceps if you are a male or female.
My guess is to be inclusive to both genders. Showing only a guy's body would be implicitly biased.
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#14Ugh. Promoting isolation exercises should be banned.
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#15what about the muscles around the kneecap :-(
Proper squat form will get your knees in great shape.
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#16Why do they distinguish between genders? Pretty sure curls are going to work the biceps if you are a male or female.
Yea, it's a bit odd. There are only a handful of gender-specific exercises in the directory[0], but that seems to be down to having a video for it.
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#17Selecting lats requires a bar. Any workouts for them without equipment?
You usually need some kind of equipment. Might I recommend a trx knockoff? Cheap, and you can do inverted rows.
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#18Ugh. Promoting isolation exercises should be banned.
Isolation exercises have their place. Lots of folks have muscle imbalances due to occupational injuries and trauma and isolation exercises are a way to correct those imbalances. Obviously see a physical therapist before going ham and making it worse ;).
It also helps to do isolation exercises to strengthen weaker spots in the body that would be the main muscle in a compound movement. I.E. doing leg curls after squats to get a higher volume on those muscles and increase growth.
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#19Doesn't seem to do anything when you select the hands. For those of us stuck to a computer most of the day I would think that hand and wrist exercises would be critical.
Actually I think things to do with sitting long periods of time are the biggest issue for us computer workers.
Things with posture, the neck and spine, shoulders rounding forward, glute weakness, etc.
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#20Doesn't seem to do anything when you select the hands. For those of us stuck to a computer most of the day I would think that hand and wrist exercises would be critical.
I’d think the best thing for those small overused muscles would be rest. Especially the wrist which I believe is not a muscle.