Defined Fitness Tip For Results 20: Total Body vs. Individual Muscle Groups

Monday chest, Tuesday arms, Wednesday back, and Friday legs (maybe - or you just skip legs and head to Happy Hour), does this look like your normal workout routine? If so, it could be the reason you're not seeing the results you are hoping for.

Many times people mistakingly try to isolate a certain muscle or area of their body in hopes of improving that area. However, our body does not function or respond this way. For example, try to stand up using only your quads, you can't do it without the use of your hips, hamstrings, lower leg muscles, and core. The same can be said for trying to tone and sculpt your abs through crunches. While the crunches will work the abdominal muscles they won't burn fat from the abdominals, you can't burn fat from just one area instead your body burns fat from everywhere.

So, if your body burns fat from everywhere with all exercise how can you maximize and burn the most fat? In order to do that you need to focus on total body training and exercises that require the use of multiple muscles and joint at the same time, e.g. as squat, deadlift, lunges, and combination movements like a squat and press. These exercise are going to require more energy (calories) to do and as a result will burn more calories than leg extensions or bicep curls.

In addition, you will also build more muscle tissue through total body training and exercises which will result in an increase in your bodies metabolism and help you to burn more calories all day long. On the other end, if your goal is to add muscle and even some body weight these are the same exercises, just done with a different set and rep scheme because of the same reasons a bicep curl is not going to stimulate as much muscle growth as a deadlift and row.

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