When you work out which muscles do you focus most on?!


Question: When you work out which muscles do you focus most on?
Do you work out in perfect balance or do you emphasize on a particular area??
If its the latter has it led to any problems????

Answers:

I work out in perfect balance. I’m a person, a whole body that I do not cut like a piece of salami, haha!
But I’m a woman so my goal is mostly toning and strength, revving up my metabolism with added muscle mass, the weight loss miracle.
I only need one set to failure to build up muscle mass (once I feel the burn, I’m done with that particular muscle).

Men are more about bulking up and need more sets with progressive heavier weights and lower reps (much more time consuming).
They need a lot of time to focus on one particular area so they cannot do whole body workout altogether unless they have the energy (very good diet) and the time to spend 6 hours at the gym.

Now, about your “emphasize on a particular area”...some people, mostly guys, with limited time or access to gym weight machines, emphasize on a particular area (mostly either the abs or the biceps). A nice 6 packs and big arms are sexy on a guy but if he neglected the rest of his body and has no butt (gluteus) and scrawny legs (small quads and hamstrings or calves), he just looks desperate, ridiculous and out of balance. It’s only okay for people to have a strong muscular upper body and weak lower body if they’re handicapped and in a wheelchair.

I would think Mark Valley's body is perfect as far as triceps/biceps/quads...and face and attitude...(I put some pictures in the source).

I used to do LB + Abs one day and UB another, as I was doing time consuming 3 sets. Then I switched to only one set after I read a study about doing only one set to failure was as good as doing 3 sets...which is true. I could progress as well with only one set (I keep notes). Once I knew that a set would be the only one, I would go all the way to failure...right away. When I did several sets, I did not push myself as hard as I unconsciously saved some energy for the next set.
Again, I’m talking about women, doing sets with the same weight and same reps, not men having to do several sets with heavier weights and lower reps to bulk up.

Once I did only one set instead of three, my workout went from 90 minutes to 30 minutes so I could then have time to do whole body workout (18 to 20 exercises, UP + Abs + LB). I also noticed that you engage your whole body to keep proper form even working out a small muscle. Like if I do arms kickbacks, which is to strengthen a small muscle, the triceps (back of the arms), I’m still using my whole body for proper form, especially my back, my abs, my legs, my neck, my shoulders...I surely do not want any of those to still be recovering and sore and not give me the support I need.

So, to answer your “If its the latter has it led to any problems????” question...emphasizing on a particular area would make you unbalanced and the opposite of sexy.

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I typically split my workout days like this: one day I'll do upper body, the next I'll do lower body + abs. No, I don't emphasise any single area over another. I just make sure every muscle group is targeted. For the most part, every muscle group gets worked out roughly the same amount.



Break body parts 5 days a week. Today is back day, then monday is arms, and you get the idea, better that way since your body can concentrate on one area to repair sore muscles rather than distributing everywhere.



To me it depends on how you want your body to look. As a female athlete, I do work all parts of my body but concentrate a little bit more on my upper back and shoulders for looks.




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