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Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle
- tata202008 6y agoHappy to report my first tap was on the hair
- 1337shadow 6y agoSame here, you bald too ?
- SecurityLagoon 6y agoMine was on the head too. I expected some kind of easter egg with some brain teasers or something.
- grwthckrmstr 6y agoThis is super cool. Thanks to the OP for making it. I can see how every page can be turned into (probably already is) a keyword/SEO landing page. All the best with Muscle Wiki!
- w0ts0n 6y agoOP didn't make this. This is my site. But thanks. No SEO tricks. I just wanted to make the site.
- fasteddie31003 6y agoWhy do they distinguish between genders? Pretty sure curls are going to work the biceps if you are a male or female.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 6y agoMy guess is to be inclusive to both genders. Showing only a guy's body would be implicitly biased.
- FalconSensei 6y agobut wouldn't the be better to have videos of men and women for the same exercise, without separating the same muscle/exercise for men/women?
- pmh 6y agoYea, it's a bit odd. There are only a handful of gender-specific exercises in the directory[0], but that seems to be down to having a video for it. [0]https://musclewiki.com/Directory https://musclewiki.com/Directory
- w0ts0n 6y agoYeah, I actually have a big backlog of videos to edit.
- w0ts0n 6y agoWhen I first made the site, my wife asked me if I had videos of women doing the exercises. So I added them. Simple as that.
- cptskippy 6y agoIt's probably a losing battle. I shared the same thought as the OP and went clicking around to see if there were differences in the suggested exercises based on sex. If you intermix the videos you're going to have people wondering if the exercises demonstrated by a specific sex are recommended for that sex. To put things in perspective, I think the fact that the muscle models had hair and the male was pigeon toed from behind bothered me more than anything else.
- nelsonmandela 6y agoSelecting lats requires a bar. Any workouts for them without equipment?
- pmh 6y agoI see dumbbell rows listed for lats. If you don't have access to a dumbbell, substitute a heavy bag of some sort with a short handle. Google has some ideas on other alternatives as well, but I'd recommend against using canned food goods (or anything else you don't want to dent/break).
- taneq 6y agoI’ve been using horizontal dumbbell rows for lats for years, they’re not as good as chin-ups but way better than nothing if you don’t have access to a chin-up bar.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoI use the largest container of liquid clothes detergent at the store with a handle and fill it with water. I haven't weighed it, but you're in really good shape if you can curl it. Great for dumbbell rows and shrugs, though too unwieldy for much else.
- bobthepanda 6y agoIf you have access to a playground with monkey bars, pullups is the obvious least equipment choice.
- gt565k 6y agoBack is generally pretty hard to impossible to train without equipment. You could do rows with a backpack / other household objects or elastic bands with a contraption that anchors behind a door so you can do pull downs. You can try to find a nice fat reinforced pipe in the parking deck near you ;), or get one of those pull up bars that attach above the door frame. If you're looking for a good workout setup for home with minimal equipment, try the TRX suspension training system. You can anchor it behind a door and do a full body workout using body weight. It fits in a small bag so it's mobile and allows you to anchor it at a bar in the nearest park and do outdoor exercises.
- da_big_ghey 6y agoYep, I've been using this for months since I don't have access to a gym. This helps me get a decent workout in with a pair of free weights. Probably still not the same as with the equipment at a real facility, but it's a great tool. Edit: I see the author is in this thread, so thank you!
- pm24601 6y agowhat about the muscles around the kneecap :-(
- smcleod 6y agoDoesn't seem to do anything when you select the hands. For those of us stuck to a computer most of the day I would think that hand and wrist exercises would be critical.
- eloff 6y agoActually I think things to do with sitting long periods of time are the biggest issue for us computer workers. Things with posture, the neck and spine, shoulders rounding forward, glute weakness, etc.
- porknubbins 6y agoI’d think the best thing for those small overused muscles would be rest. Especially the wrist which I believe is not a muscle.
- tcoff91 6y agoRock climbing fixed my hand pain so I’m not so sure that rest is always best.
- lijogdfljk 6y agoYea, i'm a believe that exercise is the answer to most problems. Especially in the desk environment. The challenge for me has been introducing exercise when a problem is present. As the increased stress seems problematic in my experience.
- DarkContinent 6y agoGoing off the rock climbing theme: getting better at bouldering (or any other style, really) requires strengthening the muscles in your fingers. It would really be handy to have some exercises linked here for improving those muscles' firepower.
- fingerlocks 6y agoThose are tendons in fingers that respond to hypertrophy for climbing, or more specifically the tendon collagen, not muscles. But that's only one strength component of climbing, probably more so for bouldering specifically, but hand grip endurance and power also require forearm strength as well. I am not sure if that would be helpful for sitting in front of a computer.
- Blackthorn 6y agoWhat's the data source for this? I've used exrx for ages, but I've become increasingly frustrated over lack of exercises that have been developed since it came out (like landmine exercises) or form suggestions that are out of date.
- 25854869 6y agoYou're out of your mind if you think exrx has form suggestions that are "out of date". I can understand the lack of exercises, even though they continuously update their exercise database. Exrx is bar none the best one stop ship for fitness, nutrition, and athletic performance out there. The only reason it hasn't exploded in popularity is because the site looks straight out of the 90s
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- tus88 6y agoUgh. Promoting isolation exercises should be banned.
- gt565k 6y agoIsolation exercises have their place. Lots of folks have muscle imbalances due to occupational injuries and trauma and isolation exercises are a way to correct those imbalances. Obviously see a physical therapist before going ham and making it worse ;). It also helps to do isolation exercises to strengthen weaker spots in the body that would be the main muscle in a compound movement. I.E. doing leg curls after squats to get a higher volume on those muscles and increase growth.
- w0ts0n 6y agoYou'll notice I have them weighted. I put compound lifts with the max weight (100) so they will be shown first.
- pySSK 6y agoWould be useful if you went the other way and showed what muscles each exercise affected.
- valenterry 6y agoYeah, this! I would also like to make a list and pick exercises that I like and then it suggests more more exercises that can fill the gaps of what I still need.
- bobsmooth 6y agoThat's available from the directory. https://musclewiki.com/Directory https://musclewiki.com/Directory
- porb121 6y agohow much do you squat?
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- etr71115 6y agoGreat site. Unsure about its founder though...it seems like the kinda project made by someone who exclusively goes by their last name.
- rexpop 6y agoWhat the hell does that mean?
- deepakkarki 6y agohttps://exrx.net/ https://exrx.net/ is another amazing exercise "database" which I've used for a long time!
- slavak 6y agoAnd it already has such an exercise body map: https://exrx.net/Lists/WtMale https://exrx.net/Lists/WtMale / https://exrx.net/Lists/WtFemale https://exrx.net/Lists/WtFemale I've been referencing that site for years. It's an amazing resource.
- w0ts0n 6y agoThanks OP for sharing my website! Please be gentle with me. This is a project website that I built out of frustration a few years ago. I know there are things that need improving and a lot of things that could be adjusted. I work full time at Brave Software (brave.com) and simply don't have time to put a ton of effort into MuslceWiki. I do however have a big backlog of videos to add and I've slowly been working on an app. We have also re-drawn the homepage images and my long term plan is to move away from gifs to webm or MP4. FWIW, for some reason I was unable to log into my HN account. I made a new one, but the posts seem to be limited. So looks like I'll be replying in the morning.
- spondyl 6y agoIt's pretty handy! Out of curiosity, are the people demonstrating friends of yours? It seems like compiling all of that footage would have taken quite some time.
- w0ts0n 6y agoYes! I've used various friends over the years but now I'm using friends who are professionals working in a gym in LA: https://www.instagram.com/wilfredofitness/ https://www.instagram.com/wilfredofitness/ https://www.instagram.com/krickithodges/ https://www.instagram.com/krickithodges/ You are right though, it is very time consuming process and sometimes we get it wrong and have to go back and re-film. I have a pretty big backlog to edit and upload. It's a slow going process. Seeing this on HN has motivated me to do some extra work this weekend.
- spondyl 6y agoWhile I go to the gym myself, I pay for a PT and I'm also relatively new in the grand scheme of things to the fitness world. Similarly, I rarely do self directed gym stuff so this site is actually really handy as far as what areas might be handy to focus on and just generally building an index of things to try out so thanks!
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- SomeHacker44 6y agoDid not see any way to select some muscles like the illiopsoas.
- nkozyra 6y agoMobile experience is a bit frustrating. I cannot select obliques for the life of me. It might warrant having another method for selecting muscles.
- nradov 6y agoIsolating specific muscles can be useful in limited circumstances. But most of us will get better health and fitness results with compound functional movements that engage multiple muscle groups.
- eckza 6y agoHave you... looked at the site? I clicked "Quads" and was immediately shown a video about squats. I can't think of an exercise that is more representative of "compound functional movements" than a back squat.
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- 2muchcoffeeman 6y agoThe exercises featured are actually good. The problem with all of these exercise sites is that people have different weaknesses, need specific programming and learning how to do complex movements from watching videos is suspect at best.
- porb121 6y agomost people don't have different weaknesses or special needs. in order to have a pronounced weak point, you need to have strong points, and untrained people aren't strong. highly individualized beginner training is like making minor corrections to a lump of clay. you don't even have a sculpture yet - there's nothing to correct.
- chillwaves 6y agoPeople have muscle imbalances just from bad posture, sitting too much, and exercising with poor form (if they do exercise). Not to mention overall inflexibility that again lends to bad form. Watching videos and doing general exercises will not address these issues. They may actually make them worse.
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- pfundstein 6y agoArguably the the most important muscle to exercise regularly is the heart, and that doesn't seem to be included, so allow me to suggest a few exercises: * Running * Jump rope * Swimming * Dancing
- vgatherps 6y agoIf you involve serious compound exercises, weight training will also be a cardio workout.
- kaseyesser 6y agoThis site provides progressions based on the functional movement pattern, never seen anything like it...exerciseencyclopedia.com
- kaseyesser 6y agohttps://exerciseencyclopedia.com/ https://exerciseencyclopedia.com/
- kaseyesser 6y agoThis site provides progressions within each functional movement pattern. I built it recently and haven’t seen anything else like it...exerciseencyclopedia.com
- 1970-01-01 6y agoHands and feet, fingers and ankles please.
- andreareina 6y agoThe addition of band work would be great; most homes have spots where they could be anchored and it's a smaller outlay in both money and space.
- w0ts0n 6y agoThat's on my hit list next.
- kayson 6y agoIt's missing a lot of muscles! It'd be great to see some exercises for smaller muscle groups like the rotator cuff. Super important for really pushing the big muscles.
- sizt 6y ago... and you would do this why ... to hurt yourself ? Ridiculous.
- nyxtom 6y agoThis is great! Precisely something I was looking for. Bonus! No ads or random lengthy articles, or an app to download. The best kind of use for a wiki!
- tompic823 6y agoThis is fantastic! I often workout specific muscle groups and cycle through different exercises to target each, so this tool very nicely aligns with that. The videos are a great touch to help me make sure I have proper form. And overall seems to entirely avoid "broscience." One feature request: list what complementary muscles each exercise targets (e.g. list "triceps" when displaying dips as a chest exercise). This would help me plan my workout when targeting multiple muscle groups, like a chest/tri or back/bi day.
- ykevinator 6y agoWe die a little every day. Making a muscle bigger is a trivial pursuit, aim higher.
- Ericson2314 6y agoAww, I wanted to find about that little shin muscle that makes the quads and hamstrings looked balanced in comparison, and which is absolutely needed for the base drum and hardly remarked upon for anything else, but it didn't show up.
- mlN90 6y agoThat exercise you are looking for is called "Make a Chris Adler cover" but if you don't have a bass drum nearby you should: Find something elevated to stand on. Like a box or a street curb. Stand on the "front palms" of your foot and lower/raise yourself so your heels go as far down they can, and up! Im not sure what they are called, but i will refer to them as chris adler squats.
- BBlarat 6y agoDo you mean the tibialis anterior? the shin muscle on the front of the shin? I'm not sure how it balances quads and hamstrings, but anyway best way to train that is to sit on a bench, put a weight plate on the foot and lift the plate.
- pradeepb30 6y agoThis is great!
- fermienrico 6y agoThis is incredible. I’m so tired of shitty nutrition and fitness websites full of bros trynna sell me shit, total BS and unproven stuff and half baked truths. Along with the Audiophile industry, fitness and nutrition are the biggest and worst ecosystem of companies out there.
- snicker7 6y agoWhat I like about this is that they include a lot of compound lifts. Exercises like squats puts strain on many muscles.
- shaklee3 6y agoJust an fyi, the muscle on the outside of the hip cannot be selected. It chooses the quads instead.
- hinkley 6y agoI am having flashbacks to all of the “muscles I didn’t know I had” experiences in tai chi class that turned out to be actual muscles and not figures of speech. For this audience you might do us a service by looking at muscle diagrams used by PTs rather than gym rats. Particularly for the hips and calves, but the abdominals and spinal muscles are myriad, and addressing back problems involves addressing them.
- wiseleo 6y agoThat’s nice. I use a workout book that isolates and combines various exercises. Looking forward to using your site.
- ashish_sahu 6y agoThis looks great. The website seems to be down.
- lanamo 6y agoI've found this website a while ago - it is a good one. And i do work out a lot, with plenty equipment / in different scenarios. I like to get some new inspiration every once in a while. It's important to not get stuck with your 'favourite' exercise movements.
- femto 6y agoIs there any way to select the core "pelvic floor" muscles (or whatever their technical name is)? Beyond anything to do with incontinence, my understanding is that they are intimately involved with back pain and are one of the most important muscle groups to strengthen, as flexing them (or not) influences the position of most other parts of the body. (When people say "walk tall", what they really mean is "turn your pelvic floor muscles on".) Maybe it's just assumed that you must use your pelvic floor / core to do any exercise with good form?
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- w0ts0n 6y agoNot specifically for pelvic floor. However, I think you work the pelvic floor with most glute based exercises. Things like glute bridge, hip thrusts and of course deadlifts.
- BoumTAC 6y agoLook up for hollow body hold, there are a lot of variation depending of your level.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoYeah if there was one major improvement to that page I would suggest, it would be to add smaller muscles; you mentioned pelvic floor, I've heard about things like the rotator cuff (big source of injury!), etc etc. Mind you, that's probably entering into the realm of physical therapy as opposed to fitness / weight lifting.
- rdn 6y agoBy definition, "good form" would include pelvic floor and core activation for squats and deadlifts. However, you can get pretty far with those lifts without efficiently activating those muscles. Physical therapy or Pilates type exercises can be necessary to develop the ability to activate them properly, but these kinds of exercises aren't usually included in this kind of database, and can be much more particular about technique, or be part of a sequence or group of complementary exercises.
- ripitrust 6y agoHow interesting, I have the exact same idea about one month ago so glad to see it been developed
- toopok4k3 6y agoReminds me a bit of this older site's https://exrx.net/Lists/Directory https://exrx.net/Lists/Directory . That was a great place to use as reference when planning your exercises. This site had a whole lot more other information too. It's good to see competition.
- 0xbadcafebee 6y agoIt's a great start, but lacks important detail about the particular muscles in each group and what is worked by what exercise. For example, there's some explanation that the rear delt head is important, but then it's left to the reader to figure out how to target them.
- hit8run 6y agoWell done site. I have a little mixed feelings about the target audience. Working out for many years (gym and calisthenics) I know a lot of exercises. Beginners might be tempted to approach their fitness by asking that question: what muscle I want to grow today? That is not the way to go. If you start out or especially during a pandemic where you need to work with everything you can get go for composite exercises that hit more muscles and are the opposite of isolation exercises you might be tempted to choose from a page like this. Beginners: full body workouts. Advanced: 2 to 3 day split. Expert: you know your drill. and will do whatever works for you. So who should be using this site? Beginners and advanced should use a plan that is preconfigured. Pros know what exercises they want to configure into their routines. Don’t get me wrong: It’s nice to have for reference but do yourself a favor and use some preconfigured workouts if you’re starting out. You won’t get a sixpack by only working out abs. Train your whole body and reduce body fat. That’s the way to go.
- Ikatza 6y agoCan you share a good resource for beginners to find some pre-configured plans? Thanks!
- krat0sprakhar 6y agoTake a look at some of the recommended routines from thefitness.wiki https://thefitness.wiki/routines/ https://thefitness.wiki/routines/ .. it's the wiki from sidebar of r/fitness, which is also a great place to hangout incase you have questions
- hit8run 6y agoI liked “You are your own gym” by Mark Lauren when I started out with body weight training back around 2010. There is a companion app that is free and still updated called Bodyweight Training by Mark Lauren. There are many offerings around this area. Try a few out and let us know what works for you :)
- akavel 6y agoI got convinced by and fell in love with the r/bodyweightlifting Recommended Routine - I now advertise it left and right, for a quick link see: https://tinyurl.com/bodyweightrr https://tinyurl.com/bodyweightrr I found it soothing and empowering how they calmly yet persistently insist on starting small and not overworking yourself, and explain a lot with science. They describe how to scale the exercises depending on your fitness level (or lack thereof), they also list amazingly many ways how to do exercises with minimal or no equipment (I started with only a door bar, though even that can be worked around if really needed; some year later I decided to add gymnastic rings to that, and I don't expect to need more for long time, if ever).
- dirtyid 6y agoNot as charming and comprehensive as exrx but pretty decent complication to send to newbies. Would be interesting to be able to select multiple body parts by order of importance and then filtering relevant exercises. Useful for finding compound bang for buck movements. That said, really all the useful variations most people needs fit on a business card. Once you're at the point of picking specific isolation movements, it's useful to have all the extra info like on exrx to really understand what is being targetted.
- SecurityLagoon 6y agoThanks - hadn't heard of exrx before... It seems to contain a lot of useful info. I thought I was missing a stylesheet though. I appreciate simplicity (like OPs website) but exrx was bare bones enough in the layout department to be a bit tedious to use.
- godmode2019 6y agoFeature suggestion: stretchwiki its very hard finding simple stretches I like your ui and clickable pictures
- GNU_James 6y agoWhy can't I select a face?
- godelmachine 6y agoWhat’s the immediate area below the abdomen called? I tried clicking on that and nothing came up. Also, this is not the correct platform but how can I get a tapering V shape around my torso?
- w0ts0n 6y agoI believe that is still your abdomen. Just the lower part. You would get that v-shape by first gaining muscle and then reducing body fat.
- godelmachine 6y agoThanks :)
- Peaches4Rent 6y agoMissing functionality: send the user to a lmgtfy search for books when the user clicks on the head
- FriedrichN 6y agoThis is pretty cool, but missing the ever crucial tibialis anterior muscle! Another similar website is: https://exrx.net/Lists/Directory https://exrx.net/Lists/Directory
- pototo666 6y agoExactly what I need!
- radu_floricica 6y agoGreat website! Quick suggestion o biceps: all exercises there are upright, and have a horrible resistance curve - they provide almost no effort at the top of the movement. Try maybe seated dumbbell curls (leaning 45 degrees towards the back). Also cable curls, leaning slightly forward, with a low pulley. For triceps, the overhead triceps extension (again with a low pulley) is a great exercise, very underrated - and one of the very few that works all three heads of the muscle. For chest, cable flies also offer a very good resistance curve.
- MarkGregSputnik 6y agoGreat resource OP, Why aren't obliques and lower abs available though?
- ganti_r 6y agoGreat site. I really love this. Have been looking for something like this for long
- mariust 6y agoI really love the concept but I would like to say Chest Flys are not beginner (I've just looked at chest for Males) - 60-80% of beginners in a gym will get that wrong.
- brandonmenc 6y agoAgree. 8 Dumbbell Fly Mistakes and How to Fix Them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dKBS61BX24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dKBS61BX24
- maxbaines 6y agoCompletely wanted to select the penis
- fasteo 6y agoSurprised that EXRX exercise database[1] has not been mentioned as a page with similar goals. They have been around since 1999, and the site is a gold mine for everything exercise related Darebee video library is good as well [2], and the site contains a lot of useful material. And the visual design is really good. [1] https://exrx.net/Lists/WtMale https://exrx.net/Lists/WtMale [2] https://darebee.com/video.html https://darebee.com/video.html
- elric 6y agoEXRX is a true gem. Not only do they have a super comprehensive database of exercises and muscles, but they also have some good research and explanations on there. Also, you can get a license to use their database on your platform.
- oretoz 6y agoThank you for these wonderful resources. I had no clue.
- mrvenkman 6y agoThis is such a great resource! I've started working out ... working out how to get fit! Lol. And it's a minefield but the way I can select which muscles I want to start with is a massive help.
- jehon11 6y agoThanks OP for building this! looks really great Could you add a back button to bring me back to the muscle body diagram. Once I'm a few clicks into a muscle group and then equipment type, I can't easily back out to the main diagram again. I had to resort to clicking the homepage
- tasuki 6y agoNice website! I'd really like something reverse: select an exercise (running, cycling, etc) and show on a picture which muscles that exercise works.
- markdown 6y agoWas musclepedia taken? Love the site. Thanks for making it :)
- the-smug-one 6y agoExRx.net has better information and more of it. https://exrx.net/Lists/Directory https://exrx.net/Lists/Directory Also, OP, the squat is not a major driver of hamstring hypertrophy.
- BlahGod420 6y agoI'm flattered.
- hank_z 6y agoAbdominals - muscle not found :(
- mikestew 6y agoIt worked initially for me just minutes ago (but many hours after you saw the error), then I click a "More..." link in the top paragraph, got a 500, and now Abdominals are never to be found again. Every other muscle I used to try and repro works fine. Never did get abs to work again.
- enriquto 6y agoThis is a lovely set of videos, thank you very much! I'm missing some facilities for "orthogonal" searches. For example, I want to see all the beginner dumbbell exercises on the same page, or all the advanced stretches, etc. Btw, just tried the "nordic hamstring curl" which was new for me... never thought calisthenics could be so scary! EDIT: I have one question: why are female/male videos separate? We all have the same muscles and can do the same exercises, can't we? It would be slightly more "inclusive" if you could select different models without necessarily specifying their sex.
- rataata_jr 6y ago> 2 genders Haha. Good.
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- sigy 6y agoWhen I click on the brain muscle, it doesn't show me anything. I really hope you add support for this! It would be a fun easter egg.
- hijklmno 6y agoWell done!
- juniperplant 6y agoThis one is cool too: https://homegym-exercises.com/ https://homegym-exercises.com/ There's plenty of exercises there.
- crnamafija 6y agoGreat website, loved it a lot! Tho as a powerlifter myself, I'm married to a max of 5 exercises lol
- BostonFern 6y agoWorkout is a noun, not a verb.
- manjana 6y agoLooks great. https://exrx.net/Lists/Directory https://exrx.net/Lists/Directory is also amazing.
- Toobam 6y agoThanks for building this, man. I can finally have a leego of my own workout.
- passtheglass 6y agodude i made an account just to say thanks for making this. I think we used to use the same endian website many years ago, i recognise your username (im exe). If you need help maintaining/coding/design/hosting please let me know and I'll dm you on the musclewiki social media accounts. I also suggest putting up a donation link. Also, any chance of oblique exercises or am I just misusing the site?
- joelrunyon 6y agoPretty cool. Just launched our beta version of https://impossiblefitness.com/exercises https://impossiblefitness.com/exercises after getting a bunch of requests like this. I think this type of thing is super useful and very underrated. Next step for us is building out the training programs so people have specific training methods for whatever their goals are. Good luck with all this!
- grvdrm 6y agoGreat site. It's a newer/cleaner/simpler version of my go-to site for anything detailed related to exercise: ex-rx.net. One suggestion: add more of the detail that site has on the other muscles used during a particular exercise. Example is bench press, which is pec-focused but engages lots of other muscles - it might be useful to show the body-diagram highlighting all of those muscles.
- weitzj 6y agoNice website. Is there also a stretching pendant?
- EugeneOZ 6y agoCan't click head...
- bellonet 6y agoThis is really cool, looks good, and I love the idea. I understand the amount of time required in adding quality content, but as somehow who is more into training, those are the features I think will take it to the next level: 1. breaking down muscle groups or at least adding information for the videos of what exactly it's working on (especially for posterior/medial/anterior deltoids, abs breakdown). 2. Adding muscles - especially obliques, maybe also serratus. 3. Adding info for videos which other muscles it targets, dos and don'ts, and optional progressions/regressions.
- datavirtue 6y agoI really like the concept and execution but working out single muscle groups is dangerous and unproductive. I have studied strength training and single muscle workouts are just not something that professionals do or recommend. Kudos on the implementation and intent.
- dsiegel2275 6y agoNice site. I prefer your body visualization over the Exrx.net implementation (https://exrx.net/Lists/WtMale https://exrx.net/Lists/WtMale).
- rordaz 6y agoExcellent work! where do we tip you?
- vermaden 6y ago180 comments and not a single one that mentions proper diet and calories intake balance along with needed amount of proteins to build these muscles ... that does not promise good results not matter how many hours you will spend making these exercises ... Also 7-8 hours of good quality sleep is needed every day for regeneration. Of course if you currently do nothing at all and will start doing these then you will grow 'some' muscles but forget about looking like the ones on Men's Health cover ... It would be great if this MuscleWiki will also include a calculator/generator for current age/weight a diet that will help build and sustain these muscles :)
- vardhanajay 6y agoExtra/complimentary suggestion to that: when the mouse cursor hovers over a muscle group further to the 'red patch', have a pop-up small text box with name and brief description of the specific red-ed part. It would be fun/educating for the regular folk (like me, who doesn't know each muscle group and/or their names) to just 'browse' the human body and see the name of that muscle group and what it does. Edit: on the parts that are not a muscle group (e.g. face, "love-handles", feer/hands, 'throat', etc.) maybe paint them grey so they are visibly distinguishable from the 'muscle groups'. I was veri curious to see if the 'love-handles' region has any use apart storing fat. visit: https://linkish.io https://linkish.io
- de_nied 6y agoI like that the website is very user friendly and has a good flow of information that is easy and quick to digest. One thing I would suggest is adding citations and sources for the information given. Perhaps tucked away at the bottom or have it hidden until some event trigger. I'm extremely hesitant of believe information at face value. For sources, I would recommend scholarly articles and research published in peer-reviewed journals, since the people who care enough to check the sources will probably also want them to have academic standards and not just be a random blog post or news article.
- lifebeyondfife 6y agoThis is a great website... favourited. I think tech workers (office workers in general) definitely should be exercising more and increasing strength, but it is so easy to do so in an inefficient or dangerous way. Targeting a single muscle group, or set of muscles on their own can cause body imbalances that lead to injuries. I've blogged mostly about tech for 10 years now, but the last 1.5 years I decided to go off tangent to write about fitness. My goal was to help anyone with limited time who wanted to get fit, providing them a concrete, manageable set of lessons that would help guide them to doing so sensibly, and enable long term (lifelong) beneficial changes. You can read the full blog post series here https://lifebeyondfife.com/fitness https://lifebeyondfife.com/fitness, which I've since compiled into an ebook https://www.amazon.co.uk/Route-Fitness-Before-Setting-Foot-ebook/dp/B08RY8CJQ1 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Route-Fitness-Before-Setting-Foot-e...
- dogman144 6y agoWow that's really good. Nice job! This is something I was thinking about doing a few years ago. The serious fitness space is dying to be taken away from TNation and other operators that are basically still at forum or webcam + chat levels of tech adoption. Something like Starting Strength with this level of tech production starts to look like a really powerful fitness tool. I think that's why TrainHeroic is doing pretty well as an app (and now your contribution!) Great job.
- shafin_ 6y agoDON'T FORGET WARM-UP Advice from a fool who skipped warmup and now it's been three days and i still cant move my legs.
- m23khan 6y agoOh wow, by far one of the most useful and simple websites I have seen! Bookmarked it!
- prostoalex 6y agoCouple quotes for those that don't enjoy spending hours in the gym: > “You do not need to do many different exercises to get strong - you need to get strong on a very few important exercises, movements that train the whole body as a system, not as a collection of separate body parts. The problem with the programs advocated by all the national exercise organizations is that they fail to recognize this basic principle: the body best adapts as a whole organism to stress applied to the whole organism. The more stress that can be applied to as much of the body at one time as possible, the more effective and productive the adaptation will be.” > “There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat.” ― Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training
- grug_life 6y agoDon't forget the deadlift and bench press (or OH press)
- dogman144 6y agoPraise be to Rip
- primenum 6y agoI think that those "silly" annoying small exercises targeting different muscle groups definitely have a role in later allowing you to perform more complex moves without injury. I hate them, but since my back is a bit deformed since birth I have no choice and I suggest others talk to a physio before breaking their backs, pelvises or whatever. I have seen multiple people messing themselves up because their bodies weren't properly "prepared" for those exercises. I guess what I'm saying is there are no shortcuts. Hard work, time and diligence.
- Eric_WVGG 6y agoI get what you're saying (and I'm a low-key fan of Rippetoe, if not quite a disciple), but if you dig into this guy’s project, you’ll see that most of the results are "systematic basics" — bench press, dips, the almighty squat — and not spot training.
- jason0597 6y agoAt first I upvoted this site because I was impressed by the concept. But then I thought about it a bit more... and I have to say that it's not really a good piece of information for beginners. When I saw that under the "shoulders" section the Overhead Press was never mentioned, I was stunned! And the deadlift form [1] is wrong. Your head shouldn't be looking straight forward, you should be looking at a slight angle down to the floor in order to keep your spine in better form. [2] For one, beginners should begin with routines revolving around the main 4 lifts (Overhead press, Bench press, Squat, Deadlift). They should not begin by doing a fuckarounditis (yes it's a real term that's used) routine they make themselves by thinking "what muscle do I want to grow today?". Secondly, beginners need to understand the importance of sleep, diet and protein intake. These are vital factors that aren't immediately addressed by this website. There's already lots of good advice here about how to get into weightlifting (/r/fitness, /fit/ sticky, Starting Strength, etc.). I highly recommend you buy the book Starting Strength and read it cover to cover. It goes into detail about everything. [1]: https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Lowerback/#Deadlift https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Lowerback/#Deadlift [2]: https://startingstrength.com/training/looking-up-in-the-deadlift https://startingstrength.com/training/looking-up-in-the-dead...
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoSo it has a different male and female option to select the muscles, but the explanation and text on how to do it seems to be identical in both cases, and how could it even be different? r/pointlesslygendered
- jakemor 6y agoHey! Jake here from FitnessAI (YC W20) We should chat :) jake@fitnessai.com
- terrycody 6y agoWhat a cool and straight up website
- a_lifters_life 6y agoPretty neat! Thanks for this!
- aryamansharda 6y agoVery cool!
- joe433343 6y agoone more request. please add exercise for each spinal segment(l1, l5 etc). All desk jobs creates backpain, but a targeted suggestion would be very helpful
- fitnessapp 6y agoThis as an app with the feedback in the comments would be the best $4.49 app ever.