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Anonymous
Time to clarify.
If you want to get stronger, never ever do isolation shit, such bicep curls, tricep extension, etc. Movement where you use multiple muscles together are how you build real usable muscle. Building this muscle also helps you burn calories. This is because muscle requires energy just to maintain.
Anyways, compound exercises are what you want to do. These exercises, such as bench press, bent over row, squat, overhead press, and a few others use more muscles at once, allowing you to use more weight. More weight means more stress on your muscles which causes your body to release growth hormones, which makes your muscles stronger faster. Yay compound exercises!
So why not just up the weight on isolation exercises? BAD FOR YOUR TENDONS. The stress of high weights (sets where you can only perform about 4-6 repetitions) cause sever pain, especially during tricep extensions. That means in order to do isolation exercises safely, you need to keep the weight low and the reps around 8-15, which if you're looking to get stronger, you won't get what you want, however, you will get larger muscles, however, the size and strength will not correlate. Large doesn't mean strong and strong doesn't mean large.
Now i have to go eat me a sangwich, more to come.
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