Learning to isolate the muscle groups is the first step to building your regime
Over the coming weeks we will take a look at how best to break workouts down in order to focus on different areas, from legs and glutes to arms, core and abs, for example.
It is important to say at this stage that no matter how much you want to work on a certain area, it is most beneficial to train the entire body to get the best overall results and the optimum fitness.
Simply training the one or two body parts that you want to work on will leave you with overworked muscle groups prone to injury and an unbalanced shape.
As your body adapts to working out, you can look at breaking your training down to target specific muscle groups and areas, which does two things:
- it gives your body ample time to recover, yet
- it still allows you to exercise other muscle groups and benefit from the calorie burn of not needing a rest day after each workout.