The Only Exercise Selection Guide You'll Ever Need

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Well, most people only set their exercises based on what they see on social media.
In this guide, I'll show you how many exercises and which exercises to use for each muscle group. I'll also help you set the order of each session.

Hope this thread reaches botb

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO!​

Season 2 Omg GIF by Rick and Morty


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1. CHOOSING YOUR EXERCISES & HOW MANY OF THEM FOR EACH MUSCLE GROUP​

► Chest​

200.gif

To target your chest, you'll only need:

• A fly variation → targets most of your chest fibers.

• An upper chest movement → Incline Bench Press, Incline Dumbbell Press, or Incline Machine Press.

Simple. Effective. No need for 17 different chest exercises.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

► Back​

Mr Olympia Fitness GIF

For your back, you'll need:

• An exercise for your upper back.

• An exercise for your lats.

Recommended:

→ Mid-back Rows + Kelso Shrugs for upper back.

→ Wide-Grip Pulldowns + Chest-Supported Rows for lats.

Build width + thickness.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

► Shoulders​

Pink Fitness GIF by Tony Ciccone Photography

Your main delt heads are:

• Front Delts

• Side Delts

• Rear Delts

Rear delts are already heavily involved during wide-grip rowing movements.

Therefore, focus mainly on:

→ Side Delts

→ Front Delts

This is what gives you that wide frame.

Recommended:

• Machine Lateral Raises / Y-Raises

• OHP (Overhead Press)

OHP will hit both front and side delts.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

► Triceps​

Blue Collar Flex GIF by GYMREAPERS

Easy muscle to train.

Stop overcomplicating it.

Recommended:

→ JM Press

→ Stable Pushdown Variation

Stay planted.

Don't turn your pushdowns into a core exercise.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

► Biceps​

muscle bodybuilding GIF

Slightly more complicated.

We'll target both:

• Biceps

• Brachialis

Recommended:

→ Preacher Curls

→ Hammer Curls

That's all you need.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

► Quads​

do you even lift julian smith GIF by Bodybuilding.com

Recommended:

→ Leg Press Variation

Go deep. Don't ego lift.

→ Leg Extensions

Keep your hips stable.

Use full ROM.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

► Hamstrings​

Sexy Bodybuilding GIF

Recommended:

→ Leg Curl Variation

→ Hyperextensions

BUT:

Don't perform spinal extension.

We're trying to target the hams + glutes.

Not your lower back.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

2. HOW SHOULD I ORDER MY SESSION?​

This is quite simple.

The order of your exercises should be based on YOUR weak points.

Not some shitty YouTuber who's trying to sell you a program.

Example:

If my biceps are my weak point, they'll be the first muscle I train in every session that contains them.

Prioritize what needs improvement.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

COMPOUNDS​

I'd suggest placing compound movements second or third in your session.

Why?

Because they fatigue you so fucking much that your performance on the rest of the workout will tank.

Train your priority muscles first.

Then move into compounds.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

TL;DR​

Chest:
• Fly Variation
• Incline Press

Back:
• Mid-Back Row
• Kelso Shrug
• Wide-Grip Pulldown
• Chest-Supported Row

Shoulders:
• Lateral Raise / Y-Raise
• OHP

Triceps:
• JM Press
• Pushdown

Biceps:
• Preacher Curl
• Hammer Curl

Quads:
• Leg Press
• Leg Extension

Hamstrings:
• Leg Curl
• Hyperextension

Order your sessions around your weak points.
Stop copying random social media workouts.



Second guide on this forum since my first one didn't explode :owo:
Note: This guide was written 100% by me. I only used AI to correct grammar, spelling, and formatting mistakes. The information, exercise selection, and recommendations entirely my own.

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Well, most people only set their exercises based on what they see on social media.
In this guide, I'll show you how many exercises and which exercises to use for each muscle group. I'll also help you set the order of each session.

Hope this thread reaches botb

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO!​

Season 2 Omg GIF by Rick and Morty


━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

1. CHOOSING YOUR EXERCISES & HOW MANY OF THEM FOR EACH MUSCLE GROUP​

► Chest​

200.gif

To target your chest, you'll only need:

• A fly variation → targets most of your chest fibers.

• An upper chest movement → Incline Bench Press, Incline Dumbbell Press, or Incline Machine Press.

Simple. Effective. No need for 17 different chest exercises.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

► Back​

Mr Olympia Fitness GIF

For your back, you'll need:

• An exercise for your upper back.

• An exercise for your lats.

Recommended:

→ Mid-back Rows + Kelso Shrugs for upper back.

→ Wide-Grip Pulldowns + Chest-Supported Rows for lats.

Build width + thickness.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

► Shoulders​

Pink Fitness GIF by Tony Ciccone Photography

Your main delt heads are:

• Front Delts

• Side Delts

• Rear Delts

Rear delts are already heavily involved during wide-grip rowing movements.

Therefore, focus mainly on:

→ Side Delts

→ Front Delts

This is what gives you that wide frame.

Recommended:

• Machine Lateral Raises / Y-Raises

• OHP (Overhead Press)

OHP will hit both front and side delts.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

► Triceps​

Blue Collar Flex GIF by GYMREAPERS

Easy muscle to train.

Stop overcomplicating it.

Recommended:

→ JM Press

→ Stable Pushdown Variation

Stay planted.

Don't turn your pushdowns into a core exercise.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

► Biceps​

muscle bodybuilding GIF

Slightly more complicated.

We'll target both:

• Biceps

• Brachialis

Recommended:

→ Preacher Curls

→ Hammer Curls

That's all you need.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

► Quads​

do you even lift julian smith GIF by Bodybuilding.com

Recommended:

→ Leg Press Variation

Go deep. Don't ego lift.

→ Leg Extensions

Keep your hips stable.

Use full ROM.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

► Hamstrings​

Sexy Bodybuilding GIF

Recommended:

→ Leg Curl Variation

→ Hyperextensions

BUT:

Don't perform spinal extension.

We're trying to target the hams + glutes.

Not your lower back.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

2. HOW SHOULD I ORDER MY SESSION?​

This is quite simple.

The order of your exercises should be based on YOUR weak points.

Not some shitty YouTuber who's trying to sell you a program.

Example:

If my biceps are my weak point, they'll be the first muscle I train in every session that contains them.

Prioritize what needs improvement.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

COMPOUNDS​

I'd suggest placing compound movements second or third in your session.

Why?

Because they fatigue you so fucking much that your performance on the rest of the workout will tank.

Train your priority muscles first.

Then move into compounds.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

TL;DR​

Chest:
• Fly Variation
• Incline Press

Back:
• Mid-Back Row
• Kelso Shrug
• Wide-Grip Pulldown
• Chest-Supported Row

Shoulders:
• Lateral Raise / Y-Raise
• OHP

Triceps:
• JM Press
• Pushdown

Biceps:
• Preacher Curl
• Hammer Curl

Quads:
• Leg Press
• Leg Extension

Hamstrings:
• Leg Curl
• Hyperextension

Order your sessions around your weak points.
Stop copying random social media workouts.



Second guide on this forum since my first one didn't explode :owo:
Note: This guide was written 100% by me. I only used AI to correct grammar, spelling, and formatting mistakes. The information, exercise selection, and recommendations entirely my own.

STAY SHREDDED, STAY AESTHETIC !
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