What should I use for my functional strength program: Isolation exercises or compound exercises?

Can you help me out with this, I need it for my training program. Additional infos is very much appreciated. Thanks.What should I use for my functional strength program: Isolation exercises or compound exercises?
think about it


Compound exerrcises use multiple muscle groups, including developing your cardio





Isolation exercise, just dont





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Here's the thing that cracks me up: how the **** do you define what a compound movement is? People will say, ';It's a movement that works all muscles.'; Well, let's say I sit down to do a seated calf raise. I grab the handles and my forearms, biceps, triceps and lats are flexed. My calves are definitely working and the pad is smashing my quads. So it's pretty much working every muscle in my body, right? Is that a compound movement?





Or they'll flip it and say that every exercise like a squat is a compound movement. But I see people in the Body Pump class doing tons of squats, bobbing up and down like water toys. Is that a compound movement that'll make them bigger? You see what I'm saying? It's ****** up! People always fall back into the same dogma bullshit.





I'm not saying that what they classify as compound movements isn't the way to go. I'm just saying there's more to building a jacked body than doing squats, deadlifts, rows, and presses. When it comes down to it, I'll take a guy who does nothing but ';isolation exercises'; and busts his *** over the guy who does compound movements with less intensity any day.





Let's say you take a guy and make him do a full-body workout. During that session he might be lucky enough to do one set that's worth a ****. And out of that one set maybe he had two reps that actually stimulated the muscle enough to get stronger or bigger. So over a period of that full-body workout he walked away with maybe ten total reps that are worth anything.





So it doesn't matter if it's isolation or compound 鈥?it's what you're going to work hardest at.





There are also some isolation movements that will really help you add strength to your compound movements if you know where to place them in your program and build the bridge.





Say a guy who wants a huge bench press has weak triceps and it's holding him back from pushing big weights. So he does some research and goes right to barbell skullcrushers.





Then four to six weeks later he's bitching because his elbows hurt. Well, no ****! What he did was stupid. Let's say his one-rep max on the bench was 300 pounds and he started doing sets of ten on skullcrushers with 100 pounds. He just added close to 4,000 pounds of workload with a movement that's stressful on the joints. What he should have done was built a bridge.





If he would've started with band or triceps press-downs for a few weeks, switched to dumbbell skull crushers, and then started doing barbell extensions, he wouldn't be having any problems. He would have effectively primed his joints and increased his workload at a manageable rate. Now when he goes back to the bench press he should see a huge jump.





So isolation movements have their place. I'd say they're just as important as the compound ones if you're hitting them hard and programming them correctlyWhat should I use for my functional strength program: Isolation exercises or compound exercises?
Neither is better than the other. It's pretty much just about preference.