Exercise choice

So how do we choose what exercises to do?

Analyze what movements are performed in your every day life or sporting event.  Examples would likely include standing up, turning and bending.  How often do you sit down and extend your legs in a seated position… or flex your arm in the motion of a bicep curl?  Probably not too often.  Don’t mistake my point, exercises such as the bicep curl and leg extension are good for isolated muscles and can have high aesthetic value.  But they will not make you move or feel better.  Also analyze the exercises you are currently doing.  How many major joints (i.e. shoulder, hip, knee) are working?  Are these exercises challenging your core musculature?

Full-body exercises such as the squat, deadlift, lunge, pull-ups/chin-ups and rotational exercises are much more effective.  They do much more for your fitness in the same amount of time because they involve more mucsle groups and also challenge your core musculature.

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