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 can you hit different parts of your muscles with different excercises??
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Cool Novice 
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my vote is yes i have seen it done convince me i am wrong...    | ||
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Cool Novice
Posts: 46 |
Of Course you can. joints move freely in almost any direction, not like a robot. | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder 
Posts: 758 |
Yup Yup....... ------------------  | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder 
Posts: 60 |
You deffinitely can! I also post on another site and me and a few other guys go around and around on this subject. I don't know if they are just too inexperienced or just too narrow-minded. --------------------------------------- Train........................(S)mart [This message has been edited by Large & In Charge (edited September 25, 2000).] | ||
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Cool Novice
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Of course you can hit different parts of your muscles with different exercises. I could list potentially hundreds of examples but I will list one so that everyone knows what I'm talking about. In ab training, trunk flexion (crunches) primarily recruit the muscle fibers in the upper abdominal region and hip flexion (leg raises) primarily recruit the fibers of the lower abdominal region. You could apply this to every muscle group i.e seated calf raises primarily working the soleus while standing calf raises primarily working the gastrocnemius. However, I will not go on. To put it simply, yes. Genetic | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
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The answer is......YES! ------------------ | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
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NO!  Yes I have to be a shit disturber! I feel that a muscle contracts on an all or nothing basis. If i do BB curls it works the whole Bicep. I dont beleive in upper, lower, outter biceps. But yes for chest and back different exercises may work differebt parts of the muscle more severly... | ||
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Novice 
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Sure you can. But it won't always do any good. For example, for chest, decline bench presses will hit your lower pecs, and incline your upper. But this is only so because the upper and lower chest is 2 different muscles: Pectoralis Major and Pectoralis Minor. But, you couldn't make the outside of your chest grow without making the whole pectoralis minor growing, the same as you can't single out your inner pecs. You have to grow the whole Pec. Maj. or Min. You might argue that there are sepperate heads, Clavicular, Sternal, etc.. But it would still be next to impossible to single these muscle heads out. |
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posted September 25, 2000 11:48 AM