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- Thread starter Michael1
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you always want to work the larger muscle groups before the smaller ones.
Here is an excerpt from the ebook "Designing Exercise Programs Made Simple!":
"When prescribing exercises, it is important to have the client perform the exercises for the largest muscle groups first.
The reasoning behind this is that larger muscle groups will require lifting a greater load in order to overload the muscle properly.
If the smaller, synergistic (assisting) muscles are already fatigued from performing an exercise, these muscles may exhaust early during an exercise for a larger muscle group. This may lead to the inability to complete the desired number of repetitions that would best stimulate the larger muscle group.
Example: If you are work the Latissimus Dorsi (lats), you are going to want to assign a pretty heavy load, as the lats are a large muscle group. The biceps are synergists of the lats in many exercises
(ex. Lat pulldown).
If you have already done an exercise for the biceps and you are now going to perform a lat pulldown which involves the biceps, the biceps may already be fatigued. If the biceps fatigue during the pulldown, you may be unable to perform enough repetitions to fatigue the lats."
you always want to work the larger muscle groups before the smaller ones.
Here is an excerpt from the ebook "Designing Exercise Programs Made Simple!":
"When prescribing exercises, it is important to have the client perform the exercises for the largest muscle groups first.
The reasoning behind this is that larger muscle groups will require lifting a greater load in order to overload the muscle properly.
If the smaller, synergistic (assisting) muscles are already fatigued from performing an exercise, these muscles may exhaust early during an exercise for a larger muscle group. This may lead to the inability to complete the desired number of repetitions that would best stimulate the larger muscle group.
Example: If you are work the Latissimus Dorsi (lats), you are going to want to assign a pretty heavy load, as the lats are a large muscle group. The biceps are synergists of the lats in many exercises
(ex. Lat pulldown).
If you have already done an exercise for the biceps and you are now going to perform a lat pulldown which involves the biceps, the biceps may already be fatigued. If the biceps fatigue during the pulldown, you may be unable to perform enough repetitions to fatigue the lats."
Thanks for the info gymcoch.
Would you say that the order that I have on http://www.fitness.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6675 is ok?
Would you say that the order that I have on http://www.fitness.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6675 is ok?