When should you inroduce isolation exercises to your routine?

[kindred]

When should you inroduce isolation exercises to your routine?

 

[apiewithhoboliftingaroma]

17 children.


you mean 17, if you're ready? right?


17.

 

[Shrek]

Never. I have yet to see conclusive evidence that they are required.
They are more for variety's sake rather than a necessity.

 

[kindred]

So i should just stick with compounds?

 

[Shrek]

Why not?
Maybe if you were cgping to compete one day I'd say yes but for now compounds for you are all you need.

 

[snookmz]

My understanding was that it is good to introduce isolation exercises when you move from a beginner to intermediate. Beginner being someone who trains three times a week, with each day training all muscle groups (bench, squats, arms), to intermediate where you concentrate on one area per work out 3-4 times a week (arms one day, chest/back next day, legs/shoulders the next etc).

So when you go intermediate, you want to hit a muscle group 3 or 4 times a session. In which case you will need to add isolation exercises. Example: to hit the chest you would do a bench press, incline dumbbell press and then dumbbell flyes (the last exercise being an isolation).

 

[turk 89]

hmmm i always use isolation exercises to end a workout. usually because it is at the end of the workout the weight is lighter and i concentrate on form
for example: leg press, dead lifts, squats and then quad curls

 

[Shrek]

whats a quad curl? You mean hammie curl which is not for quads.

 

[turk 89]

sorry mate i meant leg extensions the action just reminds me of a curl its a old habit of mine to call them quad curls