When to start isolation exercises
Beginner Mistakes: Compound vs. Isolation Exercises - Muscle & Strength
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hello everyone welcome back it's Brandon
with muscle and strength calm and you're
watching the very first video in the
series beginning mistakes where we try
to take a look at things both in the gym
and outside the gym that could
potentially be limiting our progress now
regardless if your goal is to build
muscle gain strength or just live a
healthier overall lifestyle these are
all tips and tricks that we're going to
use to make sure that we're hitting our
goals more effectively and hopefully in
a more timely fashion so for today's
video we're going to talk a little bit
about compound and isolation movements
now compound movements are any exercise
that use multiple muscles in order to
perform so most notably some of these
exercises would be the benchpress the
squat the deadlift whereas an isolation
movement as the name sort of implies is
an isolated or targeted exercise towards
only one muscle group most notably the
biceps the triceps the calves and the
abs now whatever routine you choose to
go to will probably have some
combination of the two
however the truly good routines will
have more emphasis on the compound
movements and where most new people to
the gym make the mistake is focusing too
much on the isolation ones because
they're interested in such things as
having bigger arms or maybe a 6-pack of
ABS they neglect the compound movements
the way I like to look at this is like
we're building a house the first thing
we need to do is establish a nice strong
foundation and this is where compound
movements come into play not only do
they allow us to use the most muscle
groups possible when performing an
exercise they also allow us to use a
heavier weight in most cases this is
going to come into play in future topics
that we talk about such as time under
tension and progressive overload one of
the mistakes people make when focusing
on isolation movements is they try to
just focus on one simple body part if
you've ever noticed the anatomy of
somebody most commonly people don't just
have one big body part in relation to
the rest of their body the only person
that really comes to mind to me is
Popeye and last time I checked he was a
cartoon character typically those with
the biggest arms also have the biggest
chest the biggest back and the biggest
legs because they focus on things like
compound movements so when you're out
there looking at a routine whether
you're trying a tried-and-true one that
you found on muscle and strength
calm or you'd like to go ahead and
experiment and create your own just make
sure that it has heavily based around
the compound movements and you'll be
sure to see those goals a little bit
faster and a little bit more effective
thanks for watching everybody stay tuned
for the next episode and in the meantime
train hard
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