Sentences with phrase «smaller isolation lifts»

Don't expect anything too crazy, but a 5 - 10 pound increase on major compound exercises is not uncommon, along with an extra rep or two on smaller isolation lifts.

Then, center the entire focus of your workout program around «beating the logbook» by either adding extra weight to the bar on the following workout (usually 5 - 10 pounds for big compound lifts and 2.5 - 5 pounds for smaller isolation lifts) or squeezing out a few extra reps with the same weight (while staying in that 5 - 12 rep range).

Not exact matches

A good rule of thumb is to hit the smaller muscles only after you've finished with the heavy lifting and drained all energy from the big ones, so never place isolation movements which tire out the small muscles before compound exercises.

Some weight machines are designed to work multiple muscle groups, these are compound lift movements, while others target smaller areas for isolation exercises.

This is where isolation lifts are used to exercise the smaller muscles towards the end of a workout, after the larger muscle groups have already been fatigued by compound exercises.