Any Help Appreciated - UK-Muscle Body Building Community

stalwart · 21-07-2005, 12:35 PM

Hello to all, After leaving school I joined the Army and spent 8 years traipsing around europe involved in lots of sporting activities and compulsory military physical training. As you would expect I had quite a high level of fitness. However since leaving the forces i have produced a family and bills which led to me working longer hours and spending my non-working hours with my Kids.

I have recently started training again after about 8 years of neglect & collected some really helpful information from this site and others and have sorted out a good weights routine for myself, which I thought that I was happy with until I have started to read about compound excercises and other excotic sounding excercises. Could anyone out there please explain compound excercises and direct me to where I could find detailed descriptions of some of the excercises mentioned in various forum threads I am currently quite overweight and the training which i have been doing is working as my muscles are growing and I am getting stronger but the fat is proving a bitch to shift could anyone offer me some advice regards this.

Thanks

samurai69 · 21-07-2005, 12:48 PM

http://www.thetrainingstationinc.com/exercises.html

http://www.theministryoffitness.com/exercises.htm

http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html

The three web sites above have good pics or animations on how to do all the exercises.

stalwart · 21-07-2005, 12:58 PM

Hi Samurai69, Many thanks for your Quick Response your information will be of great use

DB · 21-07-2005, 01:06 PM

welcome mate feel free to ask anything ur not quite sure on

stalwart · 21-07-2005, 04:12 PM

Hi DB, my only other question from my original post is regarding compound excercises as in what are they and what does doing them acheive?

samurai69 · 21-07-2005, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by stalwart

Hi DB, my only other question from my original post is regarding compound excercises as in what are they and what does doing them acheive?

Compound exercises are the Big exercises of BBing, Bench Press, Deadlift, Pull ups, Squats ++++, they are exercises that use more than one muscle group (one or two + muscle groups plus the balancing muscles), where as the isolation exercises concentrate on one specific muscle group.

You also get closed and open chain exercises, but thats another post :rolleye11

21-07-2005, 12:35 PM	#1 (permalink)
stalwart Newbie Trainer Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 29	Any Help Appreciated Hello to all, After leaving school I joined the Army and spent 8 years traipsing around europe involved in lots of sporting activities and compulsory military physical training. As you would expect I had quite a high level of fitness. However since leaving the forces i have produced a family and bills which led to me working longer hours and spending my non-working hours with my Kids. I have recently started training again after about 8 years of neglect & collected some really helpful information from this site and others and have sorted out a good weights routine for myself, which I thought that I was happy with until I have started to read about compound excercises and other excotic sounding excercises. Could anyone out there please explain compound excercises and direct me to where I could find detailed descriptions of some of the excercises mentioned in various forum threads I am currently quite overweight and the training which i have been doing is working as my muscles are growing and I am getting stronger but the fat is proving a bitch to shift could anyone offer me some advice regards this. Thanks

21-07-2005, 01:06 PM	#4 (permalink)
DB UK-Muscle Moderator Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: SW London Posts: 11,762	welcome mate feel free to ask anything ur not quite sure on __________________ Affiliate of Bulk Supplements Direct Discount Code= BSD290 UKBFF southcoast 2008, O80kg Champion

21-07-2005, 12:48 PM	#2 (permalink)
samurai69 Banned Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Mid Portugal - by the sea Posts: 3,075	http://www.thetrainingstationinc.com/exercises.html http://www.theministryoffitness.com/exercises.htm http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html The three web sites above have good pics or animations on how to do all the exercises.

21-07-2005, 12:58 PM	#3 (permalink)
stalwart Newbie Trainer Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 29	Hi Samurai69, Many thanks for your Quick Response your information will be of great use

21-07-2005, 04:12 PM	#5 (permalink)
stalwart Newbie Trainer Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 29	Hi DB, my only other question from my original post is regarding compound excercises as in what are they and what does doing them acheive?