21. Dr. Eric Helms: Exercise Selection | Compound vs. Isolation, Free Weights vs. Machines, Tension & Strength Curves

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Dr. Eric Helms is back on the Swole Radio podcast! Here we discuss exercise selection: how to choose the best movements for hypertrophy.

4:23 Dr. Swole’s 5 criteria for choosing good exercises

8:10 Eric’s thoughts and caveats to these criteria

15:54 how to evaluate exercises for muscle growth

21:43 compound vs. isolation movements

33:23 tension curves & strength curves

42:52 machines vs. free weights

47:25 isolating specific parts of muscles

53:56 exercise variation; how many exercises per muscle group

1:00:06 how long to keep exercises in for

Find Eric:

IG: @helms3dmj

https://3dmusclejourney.com/

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About me: I'm a medical doctor and natural men’s physique athlete based in Vancouver, Canada. I seek to share science-based perspectives to help people lose fat and gain muscle. These will reflect the current expert consensus in the scientific bodybuilding community. I‘m lifetime drug-free and have been training since 2012.

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