One of them is the use of multi joint versus
single joint exercise.
Due to altered postures as a result of sedentary lifestyle, uniplanar
single joint exercise routines, and general lack of dynamic environmental challenges so common in our modern convenience based society, the platforms are no longer ideal.
Well, because you can't lift as much with
single joint exercises, you won't be able to build as much mass or power, but there are some
single joint exercises which will target your rear delts and enable you to pre-exhaust and post-exhaust it, before or after a heavy compound exercise.
Firstly, the dip exercise is a compound movement, which we know for a fact that are superior for building muscle when compared to isolation or
single joint exercises.
I'll admit that there's a time and a place for just about any type of exercise (including the occasional use of machines and
single joint exercises), but if these are what makes up the majority of their routines, then you should reconsider taking advice from them.
If you go filling your routine with
single joint exercises such as Lateral Raises and Triceps Kickbacks (because you want to «isolate» this muscle or that) you will only be wasting your valuable time.
You do not need to worry about bicep curling, triceps extensions or even shoulder shrugs as you won't see as many gains from
single joint exercises.
For building of biceps,
single joint exercises are more helpful.
Bands seem as effective as resistance machines and free weights for
single joint exercises such as a lateral raise or biceps curl.
Whilst some coaches are adamant that multi joint exercises like the squat, bench press, deadlift, row and press are all that is needed to get as big as possible, there is a place for
single joint exercises like curls, extensions, and raises within a muscle building programme.
Utilise a mixture of multi joint and
single joint exercises to maximise muscular tension and damage, and metabolic stress respectively.
The use of
single joint exercises should enable a more targeted and intense muscle building stimulus.
Studies investigating multi joint exercises (such as the bench press) and
single joint exercises (such as the dumbbell fly, pec deck machine, and bent - forward cable cross-over) have generally found similar levels of pectoralis major EMG amplitude across all exercises, which suggests that either type of exercise can be used to good effect (Welsch et al. 2005; Rocha - Junior 2007; Shanke 2012).
Single joint exercises have been proven to be very non-functional in real life.
This means a combination of compound exercises, and
single joint exercises to bring up smaller muscle groups.
Not exact matches
The reviewers found few studies evaluating the effectiveness in the ACL rehabilitation process of so - called «open chain»
exercises (those which tend to isolate a
single muscle group and a
single joint, such as leg curls and leg extensions, with or without added weight) versus «closed chain»
exercises (those which work multiple
joints and multiple muscle groups at once, such as, for example, a squat involves the knee, hip and ankle
joints, and multiple muscles groups, e.g. quads, hamstrings, hip flexors, calves and glutes, with body weight alone or with added weight).
This is a
single -
joint exercise that powerfully targets your triceps while also activating your shoulders and traps, and it can be done with many types of equipment, yet many guys fail to see its impressive mass - building potential.
A test of balance and strength, the
single - leg touch
exercise improves your range of motion and helps loosen your
joints.
From the aspect of building muscle growth multi-
joint movements are far superior to
single -
joint exercises.
As the name implies, pre-exhausting stands for pre-fatiguing a certain muscle with the help of a
single -
joint, isolation
exercise, before moving on to multi-
joint, compound movements that target the same muscle.
Which
exercises for muscle growth are better multi-
joint or
single -
joint exercises?
If you constantly perform
exercises with a short range of motion in a
single plane of motion, your muscles will be shortened, your
joints will be less than optimally mobile and functional, and eventually your performance will suffer.
There is some anecdotal evidence that says that bodybuilders who tend to push their limits when it comes to their strength, have better - looking muscle structures than just show - offs who keep pumping away on their bodyweight
exercises and their
single -
joint moves.
For example, both
single -
joint and multi-
joint exercises have crucial roles in physique development, although the demanding multi-
joint moves should be more present in your training, especially early in your workout, when energy levels are higher.
Although the straight - arm pulldown is a
single -
joint exercise, it's a pretty effective move that was a favorite of powerlifting bench - press world - record - holder Doug Young, the training advisor of Arnold Schwarzenegger during his early career, who included 6 sets of it in every upper - body workout.
Your first
exercise in each superset will always be a mass - building or compound movement, followed by the
single -
joint isolation movement that isolates the same body - part, doing this will ease you into this program.
The most popular
single joint quad
exercise is leg extensions.
Triceps kickbacks are an isolation
exercise that involves movement around a
single joint.
Choose a multi-
joint exercise that recruits a larger degree of muscle mass over a
single -
joint move.
The fitness pros and trainers «in the know» will give you routines that are comprised of a balanced approach using free weight multi-
joint exercises (and bodyweight
exercises) for the majority of the
exercises with only very limited machine or
single -
joint exercise use.
If the resistance training portions of their workout routines are mostly comprised of machines and
single -
joint exercises such as leg extensions, leg curls, bicep curls, tricep kickbacks, pec decks, leg press machines, shoulder raises, etc...
Properly warming - up and preparing your body, muscles, and
joints for
exercise is essential for protecting you from the thyroid suppressing stress of
exercise, minimizing your risk of injury, and improving your body's ability to properly recover from your workouts, making every
single workout more efficient and effective.
After you finished searching for compounds, every other
exercise would be isolation move or, in other words,
single -
joint exercise.
I choose to build my training programs with about 90 - 95 % multi-
joint exercises and about 5 - 10 %
single -
joint exercises at most.
Now although I do feel that multi-
joint exercises should comprise the majority of your weight training workouts, I also think that there can be some benefits with just minor inclusions of
single -
joint exercises for variety, etc..
However, this article compares attempting to «isolate» body parts via
single -
joint exercises to the much more effective strategy of performing multi-
joint complex movements.
It's an isolation
exercise (defined as a
single -
joint exercise, in this case, the shoulder
joint) for the latissimus dorsi, a.k.a. the «lats,» which is rare.
Most
exercises within any functional training regime operate multiple
joints and multiple muscles at one time instead of just isolating a
single muscle and forcing it to work to a point of exhaustion.
Since the rectus femoris is a two -
joint muscle, multi-
joint knee extension
exercises may be used with heavier loads to target this muscle, while
single -
joint knee extension
exercises might be usefully employed with lighter loads to target the
single -
joint quadriceps muscles preferentially.
I recommend a combination of isolation, or
single joint, and compound, or multi-
joint exercises.
Interestingly, when using constant load resistance (like free weights), there tends to be clearer evidence of velocity - specificity when the subjects train using
single -
joint exercises, (Kaneko et al. 1983; Aaagaard et al. 1994; 1996; Moss et al. 1997; Ingebrigtsen et al. 2009), than when they use multi-
joint exercises (Almåsbakk & Hoff, 1996; McBride et al. 2002; Mora - Custodio et al. 2016).
Barbell or dumbbell curls (or any bicep
single -
joint exercise)-- 5 sets of 12 - 15 reps / set; going for «pump»
My technique involves combining a heavy squat or deadlift (in a very heavy weight and low rep range) with a
single -
joint exercise for the biceps or triceps (in a higher - rep «pump» style fashion).
Triceps
single -
joint exercise (lying dumbbell extensions, cable pressdowns, etc)-- 5 sets of 12 - 15 reps / set; going for «pump»
Pre-exhaustion is performing isolation movements isolation movements (works a
single joint, e.g. leg extensions) that is immediately followed by a compound
exercise (that involves two
joints eg.
The solution to this issue is to still do the hypertrophy - style training, but to avoid
single -
joint exercises like biceps curls, and instead to choose full body, functional
exercises while scattering in just enough explosive and heavy weightlifting to keep your muscles extremely functional and fast.
Six
single -
joint isolation
exercises are not going do the trick.
The effect of rest interval length on multi and
single -
joint exercise performance and perceived exertion.
The flat bench dumbbell flyes belong in the isolating (
single -
joint)
exercise group because only the shoulder
joint is mobilized during the movement.
The first
exercise of a superset is a mass building / compound movement, followed by a
single joint isolation movement for shape and definition.