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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 tkgally »

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…

Great site! I daydreamed about creating a similar site about ten years ago, after I started exercising seriously, but I never went beyond daydreaming. Congratulations on actually doing it.

When I was daydreaming, I thought of demonstrating the exercises with human-like animated figures rather than videos of real people. I had the impression that the well-built, athlete-type people who often appear in exercise videos can discourage beginners and people with body-image issues. I may have been wrong, though. In any case, your videos look good to me now.

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

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Post by gexla »

SecurityLagoon wrote: post #216
sbierwagen wrote: post #175

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The usual advice is to do Starting Strength (little bit more technical, is a book) or StrongLifts. (little easier, is a website) Both are focused on barbell compound lifts. There are many many strong opinions on what type of weight is best in what schedule, with many persuasive arguments backing them up. This is because you will get stronger and gain muscle mass if you eat at a surplus and do basically anything invol…

> Meat doesn't actually care about the routine! Your triceps can't tell if you did six reps or seven. Just doing some kind of heavy lift is enough. Kind of... the most important thing for any beginner is to just start doing something; but, there are a lot of nuance on maximizing muscle growth that do mean different reps / weight ranges do make a difference. A couple of reps difference either side are going to make li…

This. You probably don't need to focus on specific muscles unless you're a bodybuilder (in which case you should already know what you're doing.)

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Post by conistonwater »

SecurityLagoon wrote: post #212
akavel wrote: post #163

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I got convinced by and fell in love with the r/bodyweightlifting Recommended Routine - I now advertise it left and right, for a quick link see: https://tinyurl.com/bodyweightrr I found it soothing and empowering how they calmly yet persistently insist on starting small and not overworking yourself , and explain a lot with science. They describe how to scale the exercises depending on your fitness level (or lack there…

I thought I was missing out on a community! But I assume you mean /r/bodyweightfitness? I am also a big fan, but I moved on from it and do my own programming based on reading Overcoming Gravity (2ed) - fantastic book if you want to get into the nitty gritty on body-weight programming. /r/bodyweightfitness have just started rolling out a new series of plans to replace the RR. So if you haven't popped by in a while it'…

I don't know if Overcoming Gravity was named with this in mind but I've always loved its title: what is it that always keeps you down in life? Do something about it!

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Post by SecurityLagoon »

dirtyid wrote: post #142

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…

Thanks - hadn't heard of exrx before... It seems to contain a lot of useful info.

I thought I was missing a stylesheet though. I appreciate simplicity (like OPs website) but exrx was bare bones enough in the layout department to be a bit tedious to use.

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Post by alfonsodev »

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,…

I came to comment the same as you, I saw it in the traps muscle, it's shown as one, but it is interesting to know that it has 3 parts[1], and there are other exercises more effective for the mid section like face pull. About the "where you have the pain idea" I love it, it would be also cool to learn about the antagonist muscles.

(Disclaimer I'm not an expert). I think a common bad posture in-front of the computer is the one that rotates your shoulders forward which overloads some muscles in the chest, which are antagonist of the middle traps, middle traps get weak, and your back falls forwards, face pull is great exercise to make them stronger. Another common one for those sitting long hours, is the tightness of the psoas, which can cause hip problems, and knee problems if you try to run without stretching, I think the antagonist is the buttocks, that gets weak from sitting and you would need to exercise to correct the hip problems.

Don't trust my comments, I just wanted to put two examples of mechanism that I learned, but I don't have enough knowledge to explain it properly or be 100% sure this is correct, always consult with a pro.

[1] https://www.physio-pedia.com/File:Trapezius_animation.gif

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Post by danburbridge »

HenryBemis wrote: post #193
tyingq wrote: post #73

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"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…

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…

There are plenty of muscles there, they just are not shown on the simplified diagram. Transverse abdominus and obliques.
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