Compound exercises recruit more than 1 muscle group. The more muscles involved, the more stimulation there is for the release of growth hormones and for protein synthesis. More growth hormones and protein synthesis = more growth overall.

Correct me if im wrong:

so its better to do squat and deadlift which stimulate more muscle rather than dumbbell curl which only stimulate the biseps?

but people cannot do squat and deadlift everyday because its too much for our body which might cause counter-production

Bolded is the problem.

well, can you curl everyday? whats the point of your question?
its because we cant use the same muscle everyday that we have split routines. try thinking before you post. seriously.

sry to say, you are not bright either. try understanding the question before answering like an *******

Then, what's your point?

I don't think you did much thinking when you posted the first time. You answered your own question. Kyoyogami and mike answered your question as well. And this is the kind of reply you give? Seriously, ditch the attitude.

What attitude? i've been polite so far regardless of the taunting i got. duh

I'll elaborate on mike's and kyo's answers. It depends on your goal.
If you want growth, then the squat and deadlift are better because they stimulate more muscles than bicep curls which work only the biceps. Which translates to more growth hormone release.
If you want sore biceps, then doing bicep curls everyday is the answer.

Growth is centered around Work/Eat/Rest.

You work the muscle through exercise, causing small tears in the muscle. Which is why you feel sore.
You eat to provide your body with enough material to repair the muscle.
You rest to enable your body to repair the tears in your muscle, making it a little bigger and stronger.

So you see, rest is the phase which growth happens. So if you squat/deadlift/bicep curl everyday, you are not giving your body sufficient time to recover and grow. It's not that it's 'too much for our body', but more of we're not giving it time to grow. Which is why you see people working a specific bodypart and then not working it again for the next couple of days at least to allow it to grow and recover.


Feel free to ask, but that attitude towards critique has to change for you to be effective. I'm checking out before the flame storm comes in.

i wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors in this sport. continue doing... whatever routine you're currently on and i'll do mine. i couldn't be bothered to waste my time replying to your childish attitude.

yet you are replying anyway

This post has been edited by Mihawk7: Oct 25 2011, 05:22 PM

How in the world di 4 words became a taunt? HOW?

I rarely say anything. I prefer to watch from the sidelines but you're beginning to get a "tad" annoying. You've gotten some pretty clear answers already. And..

what

are

biseps????

This post has been edited by darklight79: Oct 25 2011, 05:42 PM

warned u guys already in his thread.

Hi, i'm 180cm & 75kg. Been working out for about 1 year now, goals are muscles, lots of em. Right now seemed to be hitting a plateau on my workout and my legs are weak cuz everytime i do squats it seems to hurt my right hamstring.



Diet are:
Bf - eggs, milk, whey, mee or nasi goreng or toasts.
Lunch - rice with lotsa meat n vege.
Tea - pbj sandwich and yogurt, milk.
Dinner - rice with lotsa meat n vege.

Workouts are:
Mon: swimming
Tues: chest n bi
Wed: shoulders n tris
Thurs: back n legs
Sun: bouldering

About 6-10 exercises with 3 sets of 10,8,6 reps with increasing weights.
Dont have micronutrients in my diet atm since i have budget constraints. Planning to invest in bcaa or creatine.

So, you're making a statement or is there a question I missed in your post?

Sorta like a summary to what i've been doing, but feels like my gains are diminishing. Eating more now perhaps thats my problem. Seems like my legs are healed now so i'll be restarting that.

Just putting it up to see if y'all sifus got any 2 cents to add, i'll take it with a pinch of salt & sugar.

Well for starters, eat more. But I see you're addressing that, so that's good. And why don't you split up back and legs? Those're the 2 biggest muscle groups in the body and TBH, if you can train both on the same day, it means one of them isn't really being trained to its limit or you're superman. Some things to think about there.

Yes. Though, squats and deadlift are not for everyone, one can perform other compound exercises.

Wouldn't recommend isolating exercises to newbies at all

maybe he just doesn't understand how muscle stimulation grows.

Read stickies is good, but read without understand the article/info is something that...errr...errr...err..

Lets read it over and over..

This post has been edited by kicksense: Jan 4 2012, 05:35 AM