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

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Post by vermaden » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 3:45 PM UTC

180 comments and not a single one that mentions proper diet and calories intake balance along with needed amount of proteins to build these muscles ... that does not promise good results not matter how many hours you will spend making these exercises ...

Also 7-8 hours of good quality sleep is needed every day for regeneration.

Of course if you currently do nothing at all and will start doing these then you will grow 'some' muscles but forget about looking like the ones on Men's Health cover ...

It would be great if this MuscleWiki will also include a calculator/generator for current age/weight a diet that will help build and sustain these muscles :)

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

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Post by vardhanajay » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 3:47 PM UTC

Extra/complimentary suggestion to that: when the mouse cursor hovers over a muscle group further to the 'red patch', have a pop-up small text box with name and brief description of the specific red-ed part. It would be fun/educating for the regular folk (like me, who doesn't know each muscle group and/or their names) to just 'browse' the human body and see the name of that muscle group and what it does. Edit: on the parts that are not a muscle group (e.g. face, "love-handles", feer/hands, 'throat', etc.) maybe paint them grey so they are visibly distinguishable from the 'muscle groups'. I was veri curious to see if the 'love-handles' region has any use apart storing fat. visit: https://linkish.io

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

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Post by brandonmenc » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 3:50 PM UTC

nradov wrote: post #38

Isolating specific muscles can be useful in limited circumstances. But most of us will get better health and fitness results with compound functional movements that engage multiple muscle groups.

Citation needed.

Isolation work is great for people with injuries and imbalances and requires less coordination and skill than compound "functional" movements.

There is a time and place for both, and you should let a professional recommend which is best.

You can't just throw 5x5/starting strength/stronglifts at everyone.

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

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Post by brandonmenc » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 3:53 PM UTC

mariust wrote: post #184

I really love the concept but I would like to say Chest Flys are not beginner (I've just looked at chest for Males) - 60-80% of beginners in a gym will get that wrong.

Agree. 8 Dumbbell Fly Mistakes and How to Fix Them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dKBS61BX24

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

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Post by de_nied » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 3:53 PM UTC

I like that the website is very user friendly and has a good flow of information that is easy and quick to digest.

One thing I would suggest is adding citations and sources for the information given. Perhaps tucked away at the bottom or have it hidden until some event trigger. I'm extremely hesitant of believe information at face value.

For sources, I would recommend scholarly articles and research published in peer-reviewed journals, since the people who care enough to check the sources will probably also want them to have academic standards and not just be a random blog post or news article.

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

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Post by swat535 » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 3:54 PM UTC

polote wrote: post #183

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

Relevant thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12618223

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

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Post by clarkdale » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 3:56 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #73

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…

"Please be gentle with me." That guidance wasn't needed, really. It's refreshingly free of trendy design, and straightforward to use. And other things, like the ads not being in the way of the content. I'm sure you've got a list you're working on, but what's there looks great. One minor suggestion...there are some paths that lead you to a "muscle not found" page, like this: https://musclewiki.com/Barbell/Female/Calve…

> That guidance wasn't needed

That criticism wasn't needed

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

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Post by tenaciousDaniel » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 4:09 PM 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…

This is really, really awesome. Well done. There are sooo many things you could do with this idea. I could totally see this becoming a huge thing, keep working on it!

If you're looking to move away from videos entirely, it would be really cool to see the models in 3D, and then when you select a muscle, the 3D figure animates and shows you the exercises. Then the videos could be supplemental. That would be so neat lol.

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

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Post by castlecrasher2 » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 4:10 PM UTC

npunt wrote: post #51

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,…

Others likely have covered this, but to add my experience I also had neck/posture issues and pain until I started doing compounds (squats, deadlifts) at least three times a week.

For me, physical therapy did nothing, and I suspect my issue was fundamental in that my musculoskeletal system was underdeveloped and working out was the only way to fix it.

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

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Post by lifebeyondfife » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 4:12 PM UTC

This is a great website... favourited.

I think tech workers (office workers in general) definitely should be exercising more and increasing strength, but it is so easy to do so in an inefficient or dangerous way. Targeting a single muscle group, or set of muscles on their own can cause body imbalances that lead to injuries.

I've blogged mostly about tech for 10 years now, but the last 1.5 years I decided to go off tangent to write about fitness. My goal was to help anyone with limited time who wanted to get fit, providing them a concrete, manageable set of lessons that would help guide them to doing so sensibly, and enable long term (lifelong) beneficial changes. You can read the full blog post series here https://lifebeyondfife.com/fitness, which I've since compiled into an ebook https://www.amazon.co.uk/Route-Fitness-Before-Setting-Foot-e...