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Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

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Re: Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

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Post by npunt »

w0ts0n wrote: post #32

Thanks OP for sharing my website! Please be gentle with me. This is a project website that I built out of frustration a few years ago. I know there are things that need improving and a lot of things that could be adjusted. I work full time at Brave Software (brave.com) and simply don't have time to put a ton of effort into MuslceWiki. I do however have a big backlog of videos to add and I've slowly been working on an…

Thanks for building this! I love that this exists, and want to encourage you to continue.

Like a lot of people working in tech, I've had persistent neck and posture issues for years. I'd love to see you expand to cover those, focusing on the many smaller muscles in the neck like SCM/Scalenes/Occipitals/etc.

Another great area to expand is 'click where you have pain' and it would recommend certain stretches, weights, trigger points, etc. There are common pain referral patterns that most people do not know about and I imagine that would be very helpful for people who don't have easy access to physical therapy or even feel they are candidates for it.

After casually mentioning my neck issues to people over the years, I've found so many people open up about persistent pain they have but that they're not addressing because it hasn't reached a bad enough point. I think that's an ideal audience to target with online resources like musclewiki.

Re: Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

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Post by ericdykstra »

w0ts0n wrote: post #32

Thanks OP for sharing my website! Please be gentle with me. This is a project website that I built out of frustration a few years ago. I know there are things that need improving and a lot of things that could be adjusted. I work full time at Brave Software (brave.com) and simply don't have time to put a ton of effort into MuslceWiki. I do however have a big backlog of videos to add and I've slowly been working on an…

I like the feature of being able to select what equipment you have available. Lots of us lost access to a gym with COVID and don't have the ability to put a power rack in our abode. A simple concept, but great execution!

PS: Do you know where I can download more RAM for my computer? It's been a bit laggy recently.

Re: Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

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Post by vgatherps »

pfundstein wrote: post #44

Arguably the the most important muscle to exercise regularly is the heart, and that doesn't seem to be included, so allow me to suggest a few exercises: * Running * Jump rope * Swimming * Dancing

If you involve serious compound exercises, weight training will also be a cardio workout.

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Post by smitec »

w0ts0n wrote: post #32

Thanks OP for sharing my website! Please be gentle with me. This is a project website that I built out of frustration a few years ago. I know there are things that need improving and a lot of things that could be adjusted. I work full time at Brave Software (brave.com) and simply don't have time to put a ton of effort into MuslceWiki. I do however have a big backlog of videos to add and I've slowly been working on an…

Great website and kudos for making it. Noting you have limited spare time feel free to ignore but: I would love to be able to select a collection of exercises and see a visual of which muscle groups I do and don't have covered in the chosen exercises. Perhaps with some suggestions on exercises to cover those that are missing.

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Post by fingerlocks »

DarkContinent wrote: post #40
porknubbins wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d think the best thing for those small overused muscles would be rest. Especially the wrist which I believe is not a muscle.

Going off the rock climbing theme: getting better at bouldering (or any other style, really) requires strengthening the muscles in your fingers. It would really be handy to have some exercises linked here for improving those muscles' firepower.

Those are tendons in fingers that respond to hypertrophy for climbing, or more specifically the tendon collagen, not muscles. But that's only one strength component of climbing, probably more so for bouldering specifically, but hand grip endurance and power also require forearm strength as well. I am not sure if that would be helpful for sitting in front of a computer.
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