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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 w0ts0n »

femto wrote: post #121

Is there any way to select the core "pelvic floor" muscles (or whatever their technical name is)? Beyond anything to do with incontinence, my understanding is that they are intimately involved with back pain and are one of the most important muscle groups to strengthen, as flexing them (or not) influences the position of most other parts of the body. (When people say "walk tall", what they really mean is "turn your p…

Not specifically for pelvic floor. However, I think you work the pelvic floor with most glute based exercises.

Things like glute bridge, hip thrusts and of course deadlifts.

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

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Post by dirtyid »

Not as charming and comprehensive as exrx but pretty decent complication to send to newbies.

Would be interesting to be able to select multiple body parts by order of importance and then filtering relevant exercises. Useful for finding compound bang for buck movements. That said, really all the useful variations most people needs fit on a business card. Once you're at the point of picking specific isolation movements, it's useful to have all the extra info like on exrx to really understand what is being targetted.

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Post by ketzo »

npunt wrote: post #90
dehrmann wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. I did some things on-and-off for posture (mostly rear delts), but what I did consistently, and think helped the most, was heavy (for me) deadlifts. I'm curious: how many pullups can you do? I ask bec…

Unfortunately I'm limited in what I can do overhead due to an old neck injury, so pullups are out. Most upper body stuff causes me pain so I have to be extra careful dialing in the right movements, weight, and reps. I've heard deadlifts are one of the best exercises, I can't wait to get back to PT and get a personal trainer so I can do those correctly. I doubt I've done enough with lats.

Lateral pulls are basically sitting pullups, and tend to be a lot easier on the neck. They're associated with a big ol' piece of gym equipment, which might be.... tough to get your hands on right now, but definitely look into them.

You're right, though, that deadlifts (performed correctly and safely!) are pretty amazing for your back in general.

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Post by TheGallopedHigh »

mod wrote: post #124
bobsmooth wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are tabs for stretching and bodyweight exercises for each muscle.

If you mean like this: https://musclewiki.com/Bodyweight/Male/Forearms/ You can see how there is still equipment required.

Forearms are quite difficult to do without equipment. Unless you include something that could be easily procured at home.

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

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Post by nathias »

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 it. I would embrace your humanoid muscle map fully, and try to show it with every exercise with colored in all the muscles you are working on. For example Incline Barbell Bench Press and Barbell Bench Press are both for chests muscles primarily, but work with different muscle groups.

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Post by fudged71 »

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…

Are you able to share the traffic and revenue this project generates?

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Post by ttn »

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…

Lovely website, thanks a million for making this!

Just a quick bug report: At https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Traps_middle/ when you want to go next page it directs you https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Traps%20(mid-back)/2 which causes 404. It should direct to https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Traps_middle/2 . I assume root cause of this is that you are getting next page link from title.

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

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Post by Ikatza »

hit8run wrote: post #139

Well done site. I have a little mixed feelings about the target audience. Working out for many years (gym and calisthenics) I know a lot of exercises. Beginners might be tempted to approach their fitness by asking that question: what muscle I want to grow today? That is not the way to go. If you start out or especially during a pandemic where you need to work with everything you can get go for composite exercises tha…

Can you share a good resource for beginners to find some pre-configured plans? Thanks!
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