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ThatOxiumYouLack t1_j9t8apg wrote

Cool website. It would be cool if it showed all muscles a selected exercise benefit.

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Luxon31 t1_j9taha4 wrote

Also it doesn't explain differences between the same muscle exercises. Like why would I do Dumbbell Reverse Curl instead of regular Dumbbell Curl.

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OrangeNapalm t1_j9tifol wrote

Big thick meaty forearms

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employeremployee t1_j9u0peb wrote

I just do cross-stitch embroidery for that.

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TwoHearted_ t1_j9ufv49 wrote

I feel like I rarely see meta comments like this anymore.

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clem82 t1_j9ub3em wrote

Reverse masturbation does this x20

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why_rob_y t1_j9udx2k wrote

>Reverse masturbation

I've tried this, but it's too sticky so I couldn't get it to all go back inside.

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DontTreadOnBigfoot t1_j9uk66t wrote

You're supposed to put it in a syringe and jam the needle up your urethra.

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Farn t1_j9ukvpt wrote

So now you've graduated to dick chugging?

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phaemoor t1_j9uqoqm wrote

You can ask around in r/sounding

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ali_rawk t1_j9ve2i5 wrote

This whole thread reminds me that the internet is not beautiful...

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A_Doormat t1_j9uxfvg wrote

KEEP THE BODY GUESSING BRO, MUSCLE CONFUSION BRO, MAX GAINS BRO.

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kgxv t1_j9u0ot5 wrote

Reverse curls target the brachialis, regular curls don’t.

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OrSomeSuch t1_j9uhi7a wrote

For people that don't already know, the brachialis runs from the inside of your elbow to under your biceps (the muscle on top of your arm that you thought of as a kid when someone said show me your muscles)

So if your biceps look like a lonely tennis ball on your upper arm you need to build your brachialis to make them look longer/fuller

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kgxv t1_j9uhuky wrote

Brachialis runs from under the biceps AT the elbow across the top of the forearm, not elbow to under bicep.

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OrSomeSuch t1_j9ujo7w wrote

Fair. Maybe I should have said the brachialis will fill out the part next to the biceps belly towards the elbow

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estofaulty t1_j9w7p2w wrote

This person was saying it’s a shame the website doesn’t say that, not that they wanted some rando to tell them.

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kgxv t1_j9w7rwx wrote

Cry about it some more, why don’t you? You must be fun at parties…

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keenbean2021 t1_j9xa1u0 wrote

Because it doesn't matter for the level of trainee who would be using this website.

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aurashift2 t1_j9utux2 wrote

One reason I've heard is its beneficial to get more variety. I would agree for biceps since the movement is kinda basic.

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MuscleWikiAlex t1_j9uo7if wrote

We're working on adding more granular detail to the website, which will let you know the primary, secondary and tertiary muscles targeted by specific exercises. We'll be releasing that update soon :)

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ValleyDude22 t1_j9uz4hr wrote

How soon? Cool site

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MuscleWikiAlex t1_j9v0icg wrote

We were going to update the app today, but the traffic held us up a bit :) That update will hit the website on Monday.

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somewhoever t1_j9wt2us wrote

Hopefully granular as in:

what flat, incline, and decline bench targets;

ability to individually select anterior, lateral, posterior, and supraspinatus shoulder;

and options to target each muscle while choosing what one has available for use (barbells, cables, dumbbells, band-assisted, body weight...).

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PokebannedGo t1_j9uwnms wrote

Agree. I selected pectoral muscles and assumed it would say pec fly. Yet it says bench press. Yes, bench press is going to work out your chest, but very few people are going to be able to work out their chest with bench press without a lot of time working on the other muscles to get your chest as the limiting factor.

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CaffeinatedGuy t1_j9v20us wrote

Right? It should limit to exercises where that muscle is the primary and others are secondary. I'd like something that lets me target specific muscles, shows me the other muscles used, and gives an approximation for how the load is distributed across all the used muscles.

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ValleyDude22 t1_j9uz9de wrote

Can you explain? I don't understand

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PokebannedGo t1_j9v9402 wrote

I'm 6 ft 135lb and I can pec fly 135lb for 8 reps.

I don't try to bench press, but I very much doubt I could bench 135lbs. It's not because of my chest muscles but because of stabilizer muscles and all the other muscles required to bench press.

A pec fly machine targets your pectoral muscles specifically. Lifting the 135lb is basically all pectoral muscle with the machine.

So if I didn't do the pec fly machine and just benched like 70lbs I'm not going to be pushing my pectoral muscles to their limits. I will be failing to get the weight up because of the other muscles.

Have you ever done a bicep curl machine? You can curl a lot more weight on it rather than trying to free weight curl. It's the same idea.

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ValleyDude22 t1_j9vownn wrote

Ah, ok thanks! Which results in bigger biceps? Bench press or fly?

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IncognitoSoup t1_j9vs4ny wrote

Neither. Bench press and chest fly are chest exercises - they do not train your biceps.

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ValleyDude22 t1_j9vw7mu wrote

Oh that was a typo. I meant chest

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byyourleavesir t1_j9vxdjl wrote

Bigger chest is function of training the whole pectoral. Put the opposite hand over one of your pectorals (left hand right pec).

Now use your hand to push down on a counter top (dip) and feel which part of your pec flexes compared to if you were to push against a wall (push up) compared to closing a door (pec fly).

You need to do multiple different types of exercise to get your pecs bigger and not looking... Weird...

But if you just want a thicc chest go for bench. If you want to look like the rock you need to bench, fly, dip, duck, dodge, and dive your way to mass.

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ValleyDude22 t1_j9vw9sb wrote

Ah, ok thanks! Which results in bigger chest? Bench press or fly?

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PokebannedGo t1_j9vz47v wrote

Muscles are all about work.

If you went to the gym and only did bench or only did pec fly, you'd get a larger chest with pec fly in the same amount of time. Because you're putting more work into your chest.

It's pec fly, big chest small arms, bench, small chest big arms.

But that's not saying that bench can't give you the same chest eventually

Because, when you get good at bench, you can focus on benching more with your chest, working your chest out more than you would if you're a beginner or novice using mostly your arms and shoulders to lift.

Best is to do both if you want a complete body

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ValleyDude22 t1_j9w91ja wrote

Thanks

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PokebannedGo t1_j9wdzvw wrote

No problem

Most people hate on machines, so keep that in mind

Your muscle is only going to get bigger if you push it

If I could bicep curl 100lbs on the bicep machine, my bicep isn't going to grow until I can bicep curl 100lbs+ in free weights. Bicep curling free weights of 75lb is working out other muscles in the arm but not going to make my bicep any bigger because it can already curl 100lb. I wouldn't be able to curl 80lbs not because of my bicep but because of the other muscles required for the free weight.

The debatable part is that you shouldn't be able to bicep curl 100lb and not be able to pick up a 50lb dumbell and curl it with free weights. If you're spending your time working out, doing a complex exercise can be more beneficial. Also you're working your stabilizer muscles which you can't on a machine.

Machines are a tool, and you have to be smart with them.

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vyrelis t1_j9w1j7z wrote

I assume you defaulted to featured? Chest flys are on the featured page if you scroll down, and is featured for most categories other than bodyweight, plate, and barbell (for female at least)

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PokebannedGo t1_j9w7fwp wrote

I just clicked on the chest. It was set to male.

It does have dumbell incline chest flys as the third one.

But once again, that's a compound exercise that works out a lot more than just your chest muscles

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bagelslice2 t1_j9tj26f wrote

Exrx has done this for years

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opmwolf t1_j9vvwl3 wrote

Wow, such a unintuitive website user interface. The website looks like it's from the early 00's. No wonder the other user said it's hard to figure out.

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CaffeinatedGuy t1_j9v1gv2 wrote

Where? I can't figure that site out.

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psycho-inked-alien t1_j9vl8l7 wrote

exrx.net I guess this is the one.

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CaffeinatedGuy t1_j9vsjkg wrote

Yeah, that's the site I can't figure out. Where is the muscle to exercise and muscles used in each exercise they mentioned?

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AntarcticanJam t1_j9w6kie wrote

https://exrx.net/Lists/WtMale

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lancerevo98 t1_j9wqdno wrote

I clicked the penis and it didn't recommend cock pushups so I'm not sure how trustworthy this is

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johsko t1_j9vno3d wrote

So has musclewiki though. I've been using it for around 10 years already. The ICANN lookup shows that it's been registered since 2005.

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wirecats t1_j9tjubn wrote

I have the app on Android but I wish it showed calisthenic exercises as well

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genericscissors t1_j9tm9op wrote

Jefit is a great app. You can pick what you want to target and what equipment you have, from a full gym, to only body weight

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Brokdoidao t1_j9uc8ri wrote

The site has a Bodyweight section lol

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Suspicious-Service t1_ja9jaxl wrote

No no no, bodyweight is too last year, rename it to calisthenic exercises or I won't be able to find them

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Mattie725 t1_j9tuik3 wrote

Nice idea!

Now draw all the different heads of all the muscles! I want to know how to target that outer quats :D

Also, just watching the ROM on that upright row gave me a shoulder impingement!

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myfavtrainwreck t1_j9x05iw wrote

I watched a woman do deadlifts while keeping her head looking forward on there and now I need a chiropractor.

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NinjoZata t1_j9xtnxy wrote

(Educated) Shot in the dark cause I'm not an exercise guy, but if you're referring to your vastas lateralis since it originates deep to the hamstrings on the femer and only crosses the knee, j don't believe it does anything except knee extention like the rest of the quads, so I'm not sure how you'd hit just it without everything else. I could be wrong tho. During massage I isolate it by flexing the hip to help lax rec fem. But I assume it's just as activated as vmo? I just know which side is which lol

Biking is really great for vl and vmo, so maybe there's something to that?

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Mattie725 t1_j9yut4r wrote

Haha it was just a random muscle I thought of. Using only one head of a muscle is indeed basically impossible. Your nervous system will always activate a full muscle, but depending on certain angles you could get more of the load to certain parts :)

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Slapbox t1_j9uloke wrote

Cool site but the fact muscles are grouped so broadly together is detrimental to it's usefulness for something like physical therapy where you really need to target a specific muscle.

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MuscleWikiAlex t1_j9up76b wrote

We're working on a, "advanced", bodymap with just this goal in mind of supporting more specific use cases where someone may be working around injury or wanting to target a very specific muscle.

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cspgodzilla t1_j9t9bgn wrote

Does not work with me

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bacon_cake t1_j9ts7t3 wrote

You gotta do each exercise more than once to see any benefit.

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AnonOldGuy89 t1_j9ujc0b wrote

It's a nice concept but the site itself isn't totally up to date. Squats are listed as the first glute exercise, and squats are really not that great for glutes.

Separately, seated leg curls aren't listed for hamstrings, and there's evidence that those are superior over lying leg curls.

Still, the site seems like a useful resource for beginners, though.

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DonnySnacks t1_j9tyvk8 wrote

404s all the way down

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MuscleWikiAlex t1_j9up037 wrote

Hey Donny, we weren't expecting the level of traffic we received due to this post, and we were in the middle of releasing an update when we got hugged. You shouldn't have any issues with the site now.

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Successful-Dig2818 t1_j9u013x wrote

Pro tip that this website doesn't have: for thick forearms, try rock climbing. It's fun, it works your back too, and after the first 15 minutes your first time there, you'll experience an otherworldly forearm pump.

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MuscleWikiAlex t1_j9uost4 wrote

I'm a climber and I cant wait for us to add a climbing section to the website :)

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Successful-Dig2818 t1_ja4q27v wrote

Hell yeah, love to hear it! I actually like that it's broken down into basic exercises rather than 100 ways to target tiny differences in muscle groups. Great tool for people who want to cut through unnecessary bullshit that causes beginners to overtrain, undertrain, focus on the wrong things, and get injured (there's a lot of it)

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Hurshul t1_j9wrade wrote

Yeah. And add cycling up a mountain to calves and quads. And maybe sprinting up a hill as well. Just another pro tip.

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Luize0 t1_j9u6ruw wrote

That is actually a really good website. Honestly, love the fact you can choose the equipment

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Iwantyou2thromeaway t1_j9tw33n wrote

I've been looking for something like this for a very long time. Thank you for sharing

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Suspicious-Service t1_j9u2f6j wrote

Does anyone know of a similar app/website, but after inputting what I did, I want to see a pic of a person with muscles colored in if I worked them out. Maybe it resets every week or something, and I can visually see that I haven't targeted my forearms or something

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stackered t1_j9vspva wrote

good for beginners I guess, but just looking through they didn't actually optimize based on studies for each muscle, they put large compound movements which hit many muscles at the top of each list. so tread with care on this and definitely don't base your workout on targeting single muscles unless you're an advanced bodybuilder targeting a lagging muscle, in which case you don't need this because you already know what works best for your body and what works in general... so yeah, cool but not that good or useful tbh

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blisstonia t1_j9x9kfc wrote

Cock Push-ups. Got it.

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miacolada_crushed t1_j9tgtzo wrote

Just noticed. Looks cool, definitely i try it out.

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sadmansamee t1_j9tl61o wrote

There are apps as well for this website, works cool

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uduwar t1_j9u238b wrote

Cool, going to give it a bash!

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[deleted] t1_j9u9v3b wrote

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Badaxe13 t1_j9udhrx wrote

This is exactly what I've been looking for. So Simple to use and easy to understand. Downloaded the app.

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joaoppm2000 t1_j9v3hu1 wrote

It doesn't work on face :(

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I_Do_Stufff t1_j9vp6go wrote

This site doesn’t even work, after I click on a muscle group it gives me an error for the page

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flubluflu2 t1_j9w6qjj wrote

This AI will replace fitness instructors

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vogueboy t1_j9wwidr wrote

Installed the app. Great work! Hope is gets improved constantly.

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STG_77 t1_j9x3pmo wrote

Whoops! - 404 Looks like you found a broken page! Please contact us and report this. Thanks!

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bobcatt t1_j9xqmrw wrote

Great site! thanks for the tip.

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veddie25 t1_j9xwe2b wrote

Didn’t bodybuilding.com have something like this?

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croco-verde t1_jac0hq6 wrote

Love it!

Do you plan to crowdsource the exercises / videos? Could be curated by the site admins / or the community based on some sort of voting / rating. Because there's so many exercises you can do for a muscle, I think having the variety provided by a community would be great

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ElmiraKadiev t1_j9twztl wrote

Too bad there seems to be no workout for the private regions

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Hoohadingus t1_j9ton0w wrote

You have like 200 muscles this a bad way to do it

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MuscleWikiAlex t1_j9uo255 wrote

We're working on an advanced bodymap which incorporates more muscles, so that more advanced users can get that level of detail.

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Hoohadingus t1_j9v10gd wrote

Like the front page of reddit is bodybuilders lmao

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Slapbox t1_j9um1pl wrote

You're downvoted, but not really wrong. I respect the work put into this, but displaying only 20 broad muscle groups is insufficient for the complexity of human physiology.

It's a good site for someone who's never lifted though.

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MapleSyrupFacts t1_j9vhzsw wrote

Aren't most people who are looking into this on a website just beginners and looking for the basics for a home gym? Alex has said he is working on more advanced muscle groups pages but do you think your average Redditor would get overwhelmed by posting those pages instead of this one first ?

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Hoohadingus t1_j9v0xjt wrote

Lmao i always get downvoted on reddit because I use mobile so i talk kinda casually and also as far as social medias go nowhere has a worse hive mind/ group think phenomenon then reddit

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Drekalo t1_j9tzcp8 wrote

It doesn't let me select groin or dick, no good.

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Hezkezl t1_j9u2yzb wrote

All the workouts in the world aren't gonna help you with a micro penis.

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