How To Find Out Which Exercises Hit Which Muscles

It’s important people have a good understanding of how certain exercises hit certain muscles. Without this knowledge, how can one hope to follow a comprehensive training program designed to hit all or most major muscles in the body? If you look on the internet you will see a ton of articles talking about which muscles are activated by which exercises, and sometimes the opinions are pretty conflicting leaving people swamped in a soup of confusion. Want a simple way out of this mess?

The key actually lies with you.

First I’ll state the obvious: Given everyone has different bone structures and muscular imbalances, not everybody reaps the same benefits as everyone else when performing the same exercises. Some people may claim a certain exercise ‘kills’ – in a good way – certain muscles, yet when you perform the exercise, it may do very little for you. That’s just the way it is, so bare this in mind always when trying to find the best exercises for you.

Now, the method I’m going to give you to enable you to find out what really hits certain muscles the best is extremely simple: Allow yourself to detrain a week or so, then hit an exercise of your choosing with sufficient weight and volume, and in the coming days you’ll feel the location of the post-workout pain and be able to gauge the severity of it, too, so you’ll have a much clearer picture of how the exercise affects you – at least, at this point in time. Nothing stays the same, remember.

Vince Gironda used this to find out what exercises worked certain muscles. You may have unwittingly experienced the same whenever you’ve taken a short break and come back – the muscular pain in the days that follow always feels more intense than when you’ve been doing the same exercise for a few workouts in a row.

This is your ticket to discovering which muscles are worked by which exercises and which variations – all on your own, 100% personalized for your own body.