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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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

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Post by mewse-hn »

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…

Two points of feedback in case it helps:

I'm recovering from a hand injury and doing grip exercises to strengthen the forearm muscles responsible for finger movement - when I clicked forearm it listed wrist exercises rather than grip strength. Maybe clicking the hands can lead to grip strength exercises?

Since the purpose seems for workouts rather than rehab work, I wanted to check if it had rotator cuff exercises similar to this:

https://fdlc.com.au/sites/default/files/imce/Strengthening%2...

But the shoulder blades aren't clickable.

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

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Post by SnowingXIV »

Ikatza wrote: post #150
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!

Compounds lifts. Often people get confused about what program to use or how to optimize. If you're just getting started - anything will work. Make going to the gym a routine and the rest will follow. You can ignore the noise (much like programming! You could get lost in learning some niche flavor-of-the-month framework and never build anything).

Do squats, bench, ohp, and deadlift. You'll grow.

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

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Post by bellonet »

This is really cool, looks good, and I love the idea. I understand the amount of time required in adding quality content, but as somehow who is more into training, those are the features I think will take it to the next level: 1. breaking down muscle groups or at least adding information for the videos of what exactly it's working on (especially for posterior/medial/anterior deltoids, abs breakdown). 2. Adding muscles - especially obliques, maybe also serratus. 3. Adding info for videos which other muscles it targets, dos and don'ts, and optional progressions/regressions.

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Post by beaconstudios »

mewse-hn wrote: post #262
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…

Two points of feedback in case it helps: I'm recovering from a hand injury and doing grip exercises to strengthen the forearm muscles responsible for finger movement - when I clicked forearm it listed wrist exercises rather than grip strength. Maybe clicking the hands can lead to grip strength exercises? Since the purpose seems for workouts rather than rehab work, I wanted to check if it had rotator cuff exercises si…

to second this, I have a recurring shoulder tendonitis from weak scapular mobility so I would also hope to find similar exercises. The site is a great concept though!

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

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Post by datavirtue »

I really like the concept and execution but working out single muscle groups is dangerous and unproductive. I have studied strength training and single muscle workouts are just not something that professionals do or recommend. Kudos on the implementation and intent.

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

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Post by inakarmacoma »

mewse-hn wrote: post #262
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…

Two points of feedback in case it helps: I'm recovering from a hand injury and doing grip exercises to strengthen the forearm muscles responsible for finger movement - when I clicked forearm it listed wrist exercises rather than grip strength. Maybe clicking the hands can lead to grip strength exercises? Since the purpose seems for workouts rather than rehab work, I wanted to check if it had rotator cuff exercises si…

Third this, re: rotator cuff rehab being a likely necessity, as with detailed hand exercises for typists. :)

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

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25854869 wrote: post #29
Blackthorn wrote: post #10

What's the data source for this? I've used exrx for ages, but I've become increasingly frustrated over lack of exercises that have been developed since it came out (like landmine exercises) or form suggestions that are out of date.

You're out of your mind if you think exrx has form suggestions that are "out of date". I can understand the lack of exercises, even though they continuously update their exercise database. Exrx is bar none the best one stop ship for fitness, nutrition, and athletic performance out there. The only reason it hasn't exploded in popularity is because the site looks straight out of the 90s

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