This means that sometimes people say that you might not be starting with the right
single joint movement, and you should listen to them about this issue.
The traditional, hyperbolic force velocity relationship properly describes the behavior of single muscle fibers but also seems to hold true for
single joint movements.
• Don't transfer very well to athletics / real life → Most (again I say most, but not all) machines move only through
single joint movements (also known as isolation exercises).
Not exact matches
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.
«Moving the
joints in a
single plane
movement, which occurs in cycling, is safe on the
joints and stimulates the production of
joint fluid to lubricate the
joints, which reduces the incidence of arthritis,» Ischia says.
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.
Ie Squats, Deadlifts, Cleans etc. go first then the
single joint ancillary
movements.
Triceps kickbacks are an isolation exercise that involves
movement around a
single joint.
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.
In real life, especially sports,
movements do not occur along a
single joint or a
single plane of motion.
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.
The reason is that by focusing more on multi-
joint complex
movements as opposed to
single -
joint muscle isolation lifts, you not only burn a lot more calories during each workout, but you also increase your metabolic rate, and stimulate production of more fat burning and muscle building hormones such as growth hormone and testosterone.
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 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.
The pre-exhaustion method might not be an effective technique to increase the extent of neuromuscular recruitment for larger muscle groups (e.g. pectoralis major for the bench press) when preceded by a
single -
joint movement (e.g. pec - deck fly).
Dynamometers are machines that provide resistance at a selected, set angular velocity during
single -
joint movements, following the angular motion of the
joint (Baltzopoulos, 2007).
You can train triceps by doing close - grip bench presses and triceps dips (both compound
movements), but you'll find that virtually every other triceps exercise is a
single -
joint move.
Traditional PNF techniques involve doing the stretches in diagonal or spiral motions to promote
movement through various planes of motion, while contract - relax
movement patterns tend to involve
single -
joint motion through one plane (see the sidebar «Proposed Mechanisms of PNF Stretching: The Controversy»).