«You work
multiple muscle groups when you're using the rowing machine and so it makes for an effective cardio workout,» says Fitness First personal trainer, Alex Chaple.
Not exact matches
At one exercise per
muscle group you reduce the chances of overtraining.Yes, it is still possible to overtrain on this kind of workout but
when compared to a regular split routine, where you do
multiple exercises for a single
muscle group in one training session, super sets, drop sets, rest pause sets etc. the chances of overtraining are smaller.
So, let's recap:
when an exercise involves
multiple muscle groups simultaneously, we call that exercise a compound exercise.
This is a superset workout that hits all the major
muscle groups and is great for
when you have a crazy week and need to compress
multiple upper body days into one.
when we consider that most bodybuilding exercises require neuromuscular isolation (working a single
muscle), not integration (working
multiple muscles and
muscle groups) and virtually every sport or functional activity known to man requires high levels of neuromuscular integration, we are off to a bad start.
While single body part splits can work (giving a body part its own dedicated day), research has shown that natural lifters respond best
when hitting a
muscle group multiple times per week.
Angular Training is
when you target one
muscle group from
multiple angles.
When you look at EMG data, a measure of what degree you're activating muscles, it shows that planks target multiple muscle groups and ones that miss out when you do standard ab exercises like crunc
When you look at EMG data, a measure of what degree you're activating
muscles, it shows that planks target
multiple muscle groups and ones that miss out
when you do standard ab exercises like crunc
when you do standard ab exercises like crunches.