[quote]bonzi50 wrote:
well the whole point is that you don’t NEED to do both if your doing compound lifts. [/quote]
Sure you don’t NEED to do both, but if you want your physique to be complete you most likely should not neglect the smaller muscle groups.
What happens if a person does nothing but compound movements and winds up with disproportionately small biceps, or weak quadriceps, or no calf muscles whatsoever? Rather than waiting until problems arise to maybe throw in some needed isolation work, there is no problem with doing it right from the beginning to keep that from happening and make your body look better.
[quote]imbalances??? more like perfect athletic symmetrical physical harmony.
I didn’t notice him refer to himself as a “bodybuilder.”[/quote]
He said he wants bigger muscles. What would you call that? Tapdancing?
I didn’t notice him refer to himself as an “athlete”.
I think efficiency of time and energy is one the main reasons to split a routine up into certain bodyparts of exercises assigned to certain days. I can’t give my full attention to ANY particular muscle group if I’m trying to do all compound lifts all the time, let alone a full body routine or even an upper/lower split like many here suggest. They are overly-exhausting, and it’s just plain unnecessary to try to do that if all you want is bigger muscles.
And if you don’t like leg extensions, then don’t do leg extensions. It was just an example, but as far as i’m concerned it’s just more stimulus for the particular muscle group, and what is bad about that?
Again, i’m not suggesting that you ONLY do isolation exercises, that would just be retarded…
If you are going to suggest fewer reps and more sets it is implied that the weight should get heavier, or else it defeats the purpose doesn’t it?