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Training & Nutrition Insider Secrets for a Lean-Body
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your focus away from muscle isolation. Believe me, focusing on how well your
body functions will give you the side effect of a body that looks even better than it
would have if you focused on muscle isolation. For example, take a look at the
physiques of any NFL running backs, wide receivers, or even world class sprinters.
Trust me when I say that these guys pretty much NEVER train for muscle isolation
(their strength coaches wouldn’t be crazy enough to let them), yet they are
absolutely ripped to shreds!
Another benefit to moving away from the ‘muscle isolation’ mindset to a more
‘complex movement’ mindset is that you will find it much easier to lose body fat.
The reason is that by focusing more on multi-joint complex movements as opposed
to single-joint muscle isolation, you not only burn a lot more calories during each
workout, but you also increase your metabolic rate, and stimulate production of
more fat burning and muscle building hormones like growth hormone and
testosterone.
Let’s look at an example. The machine leg extension is a single joint exercise that
works mainly the quadriceps, can potentially cause knee joint instability in the long
run, and doesn’t even burn that many calories. On the other hand, exercises like
squats, lunges, step-ups, and deadlifts are all multi-joint complex movements that
work hundreds of muscles in the body (including the quadriceps) as a functional
unit, create more stable and strong joints in the long run (when done properly), and
also burn massive quantities of calories compared to the single-joint exercises.
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