Which muscle should be trained first?

For fitness beginners, before exercising, they must understand some fitness-related content. For example, when training muscles, they should first practice large muscle groups, and then practice some small muscle groups such as deltoids and triceps. The advantage of doing this is that it can play a better role in muscle training. This is a basic requirement for fitness exercise. When exercising the latissimus dorsi or thigh muscles, such a situation will also exist.

Which muscle should be trained first?

1. Exercise our large muscle groups first

For scientific fitness training, we should first exercise our large muscle groups, that is, the muscles of our torso and thighs. Because it is these large muscle groups that determine our posture and shape, and it is also these large muscle groups that play a role in better protecting our bodies, the role and function of large muscle groups are incomparable to small muscle groups.

2. Develop our deltoids and triceps

Secondly, when we are exercising large muscle groups, there are usually many small muscle groups involved to assist. For example, when we do the barbell bench press, although we are exercising the pectoralis major, many people will obviously exercise the anterior deltoid or triceps, which is normal. Because when doing this movement, the anterior deltoid and triceps are assisting muscles, that is, if we want to exercise the pectoralis major, they definitely need to exert force when doing double-joint movements, so we need to develop the pectoralis major first, and then develop our deltoids and triceps.

If the deltoids or triceps are too developed, it will directly lead to a result that the pectoralis major cannot be stimulated well when doing the barbell bench press. The overdevelopment of small muscles will cause the small muscle groups to bear more gravity and stimulation when doing the barbell bench press, thereby reducing the strength of the large muscle groups. However, our goal is to exercise the large muscle groups, but the result is to exercise and stimulate the small muscle groups, so this is definitely not acceptable.

This situation occurs not only when exercising the pectoralis major, but also when exercising the latissimus dorsi and thigh muscles. Therefore, in order for us to scientifically persist in fitness training and to make our bodies healthier, we must first exercise the large muscle groups and then the small muscle groups.