Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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compound vs. isolation

thegoof
thegoof
Posts: 8
Joined: 2002/04/26
Canada
2002/06/05, 05:14 PM
what's the difference?

thanks
mikencharleston
mikencharleston
Posts: 1,585
Joined: 2002/01/09
United States
2002/06/05, 05:19 PM
Compound moves are your basic strength/mass exercises like bench press, squats, dead lifts. Isolation is used mostly for your smaller muscles groups like biceps and triceps - ex: preacher curls and tricep kick backs.
Philia2
Philia2
Posts: 4,078
Joined: 2001/10/19
France
2002/06/06, 01:49 AM
Yes mike is right. When doing compound exercises more than one muscle group is working.
Isolation work is concentrated on one single muscle.

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qualters
qualters
Posts: 343
Joined: 2002/04/21
United States
2002/06/07, 04:54 PM
Compound movements help to build mass whereas your isolation movements are used to define and tone the muscle.

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