Comments on: The Specificity Principle of Exercise http://skinnybulkup.com/the-specificity-principle-of-exercise/ Advice for skinny guys who want to bulk up Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:50:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Tyciol http://skinnybulkup.com/the-specificity-principle-of-exercise/#comment-19194 Tyciol Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:18:14 +0000 http://skinnybulkup.com/2009/03/06/the-specificity-principle-of-exercise/#comment-19194 "With free-weight compound exercises, you are training movements rather than individual muscles." Seems to imply that you aren't doing a 'movement' when you use a machine, or that machines only train individual muscles. Plenty of machines are compound movements that do train synergists. Please be more neutral and don't propogate the anti-machine bias. Leg presses obviously don't require balance or as much lower back strength, but they're still compound. The same applies to seated rows. Both are very useful. “With free-weight compound exercises, you are training movements rather than individual muscles.”

Seems to imply that you aren’t doing a ‘movement’ when you use a machine, or that machines only train individual muscles.

Plenty of machines are compound movements that do train synergists. Please be more neutral and don’t propogate the anti-machine bias. Leg presses obviously don’t require balance or as much lower back strength, but they’re still compound. The same applies to seated rows. Both are very useful.

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