How to choose your exercises?

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How to choose your exercises

Bodybuilding is a discipline that includes many movements. Yet, a program can not contain all of them. At some point, you have to make choices and select the ones you are going to practice. However, how to make that choice? This is not an easy task, especially for a beginner, and sometimes even for a confirmed practitioner. Here is an explanation on how to choose your exercises

A personal choice 

The first thing to understand, before making a choice of exercises and building a bodybuilding program, is that each person is different. The body of some is large, medium, small, but the difference does not stop there. For each has a length of arms, legs, and busts, different. Shoulder width is also personal. In short, each morphology is unique. Therefore, the choice of exercises must be individual. It is not a question of resuming the ready-made program of a friend or the one found in a magazine. For, some of these exercises will go to you, but others much less 

To understand this concept, here are two concrete examples. The first is that of pumps. It is a basic exercise and is generally recommended to everyone. However, it should be noted that not all practitioners are equal to this movement. It is very simple, if you have short arms, you will have more ease to perform the exercise, on equal weight, than a person who has longer arms. Indeed, you will have less distance to go to the ground 

The second example is that of squats. This time, the difference is in the length of the legs. If you have long thighs, you will have much more to lean forward than if you have short thighs, all to keep the balance. This results in a greater danger for your back 

Special exercises

 If you have to choose the exercises according to your morphology, you must also select them according to your objectives. Indeed, each movement has advantages and disadvantages. In addition, they require certain muscles rather than others. It is therefore necessary to keep your objective in mind and to direct you towards the most advantageous exercises to accomplish this one, and whose disadvantages will hinder you the least 

Each exercise is unique, but there is a distinction that already makes it possible to classify them into two groups, the basic exercises and the insulation exercises. The basic exercises involve several joints at the same time and therefore many muscles. This is the case with the squat, for example. They allow a strong muscle load in a short time and lift heavy. However, they are tiring and they do not necessarily put a muscle at the center of priorities. Now, according to the morphologies, certain muscles can take precedence over the others. For example, on pumps, some practitioners will especially feel their triceps work and the pectorals will take less effort. For others, it will be the reverse

 Isolation exercises are those that require only one joint. Fewer muscles are involved and these exercises are less effective in developing muscle mass. However, they require less energy and it is possible to target particular muscles