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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 spondyl »

w0ts0n wrote: post #96
spondyl wrote: post #45

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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.

Yes! I've used various friends over the years but now I'm using friends who are professionals working in a gym in LA: https://www.instagram.com/wilfredofitness/ https://www.instagram.com/krickithodges/ You are right though, it is very time consuming process and sometimes we get it wrong and have to go back and re-film. I have a pretty big backlog to edit and upload. It's a slow going process. Seeing this on HN has mo…

While I go to the gym myself, I pay for a PT and I'm also relatively new in the grand scheme of things to the fitness world. Similarly, I rarely do self directed gym stuff so this site is actually really handy as far as what areas might be handy to focus on and just generally building an index of things to try out so thanks!

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Post by polote »

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…

This [1] was posted two days ago on HN, but didn't get visibility but is great to explain HN beginners how they should lift

[1] https://www.julian.com/guide/muscle/intro

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Post by slavak »

deepakkarki wrote: post #31

https://exrx.net/ is another amazing exercise "database" which I've used for a long time!

And it already has such an exercise body map: https://exrx.net/Lists/WtMale / https://exrx.net/Lists/WtFemale

I've been referencing that site for years. It's an amazing resource.

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Post by bugBunny »

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…

is this you in the videos?? btw great work, I will be using this in gym for sure.

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Post by BBlarat »

Ericson2314 wrote: post #75

Aww, I wanted to find about that little shin muscle that makes the quads and hamstrings looked balanced in comparison, and which is absolutely needed for the base drum and hardly remarked upon for anything else, but it didn't show up.

Do you mean the tibialis anterior? the shin muscle on the front of the shin? I'm not sure how it balances quads and hamstrings, but anyway best way to train that is to sit on a bench, put a weight plate on the foot and lift the plate.

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Post by danburbridge »

dehrmann wrote: post #84
npunt wrote: post #51

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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,…

> 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…

Another vote for deadlifting here. With a desk based day job and being a keen cyclist my posterior chain muscles were under-developed compared to my quads etc - deadlifting helped strengthen my glutes, hamstrings and lower back significantly and pretty much all of my back pain has gone.

I didn't use a coach, but did study a lot of videos on deadlift form and also videoed myself to check I was doing it properly.

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Post by fasteo »

Surprised that EXRX exercise database[1] has not been mentioned as a page with similar goals. They have been around since 1999, and the site is a gold mine for everything exercise related

Darebee video library is good as well [2], and the site contains a lot of useful material. And the visual design is really good.

[1] https://exrx.net/Lists/WtMale

[2] https://darebee.com/video.html

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