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

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Post by porb121 » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 5:50 AM UTC

chillwaves wrote: post #89

porb121 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

most people don't have different weaknesses or special needs. in order to have a pronounced weak point, you need to have strong points, and untrained people aren't strong. highly individualized beginner training is like making minor corrections to a lump of clay. you don't even have a sculpture yet - there's nothing to correct.

People have muscle imbalances just from bad posture, sitting too much, and exercising with poor form (if they do exercise). Not to mention overall inflexibility that again lends to bad form. Watching videos and doing general exercises will not address these issues. They may actually make them worse.

again: how will someone have a muscle imbalance if they don't even have much muscle to begin with?

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

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Post by floatingatoll » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 5:51 AM UTC

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…

Drop an email to the admins at and they may be able to help, if they haven’t already, since you’re a content creator responding to a post about your own site.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 5:52 AM UTC

spondyl wrote: post #45

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…

It's pretty handy! Out of curiosity, are the people demonstrating friends of yours? It seems like compiling all of that footage would have taken quite some time.

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

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Post by hombre_fatal » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 5:53 AM UTC

pmh wrote: post #8

nelsonmandela wrote: post #2

Selecting lats requires a bar. Any workouts for them without equipment?

I see dumbbell rows listed for lats. If you don't have access to a dumbbell, substitute a heavy bag of some sort with a short handle. Google has some ideas on other alternatives as well, but I'd recommend against using canned food goods (or anything else you don't want to dent/break).

I use the largest container of liquid clothes detergent at the store with a handle and fill it with water. I haven't weighed it, but you're in really good shape if you can curl it. Great for dumbbell rows and shrugs, though too unwieldy for much else.

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

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Post by bobsmooth » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 5:53 AM UTC

gt565k wrote: post #15

pm24601 wrote: post #4

what about the muscles around the kneecap :-(

Proper squat form will get your knees in great shape.

You never notice your stabilizer muscles until you really use them.

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

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Post by hinkley » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 5:54 AM UTC

I am having flashbacks to all of the “muscles I didn’t know I had” experiences in tai chi class that turned out to be actual muscles and not figures of speech.

For this audience you might do us a service by looking at muscle diagrams used by PTs rather than gym rats. Particularly for the hips and calves, but the abdominals and spinal muscles are myriad, and addressing back problems involves addressing them.

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

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Post by bobsmooth » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 5:54 AM UTC

pySSK wrote: post #34

w0ts0n wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'll notice I have them weighted. I put compound lifts with the max weight (100) so they will be shown first.

Would be useful if you went the other way and showed what muscles each exercise affected.

That's available from the directory.

https://musclewiki.com/Directory

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

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 5:55 AM UTC

gt565k wrote: post #12

nelsonmandela wrote: post #2

Selecting 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…

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

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Post by w0ts0n » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 5:56 AM UTC

dehrmann wrote: post #85

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…

What's up with only having first-party js/css/image resources on your site? /s

Just prefer to keep the site with no 3rd party dependancies. If something goes wrong/down I know where to look.

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

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Post by hombre_fatal » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 5:57 AM UTC

gt565k wrote: post #12

nelsonmandela wrote: post #2

Selecting 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…

> Back is generally pretty hard to impossible to train without equipment.

Lats are hard to train without equipment, but you may need to expand your definition of the back to include the rest of the back. Easy to train without equipment. Most people can't hold a superman very long.