HOW TO WORKOUT IF YOUR BODY IS A WRECK: You could make an endless list of joint issues that inhibit exercise But if you still want to train, how do you train around them? The Isolation based methodology of Doug Brignole is one you need to know about and apply...
Doug Brignole passed away last year (RIP), but in the final years of his life, he made a major impact on the fitness industry Doug was a veteran bodybuilder and won multiple AAU titles, He developed a training methodology grounded in physics and pure biomechanics...
The basic premise of Dougs method was that ISOLATION exercises were more efficient for musclebuilding than compound movements This is heretical to mainstream fitness, which constantly preaches squat bench deadlift press But Doug did not care about Dogma, he was hyper logical...
Dougs premise was simple: For compound movements, the mechanical loading is always distributed across multiple muscles This allows you to move big weights, but it also makes it the most inefficient way to train if specific muscle growth is the goal its also RISKY
How many people hurt themselves bench pressing? Or squatting? Or Deadlifting? I was fortunate to meet Doug in 2021, and he described growing up around bodybuilders, and how so many of them were in chronic pain as they age, and lost function he did not want that to be him
Doug started experimenting with using mostly isolation exercises early on his bodybuilding career IT WORKED he developed a preference for isolation movements, and it was obvious to him that the belief of isolation exercises dont build muscle, it was false
Doug had a mathematical brain, and over the years he taught himself Biomechanics, he would eventually publish a book "The Physics of Resistance Exercise" I read it cover to cover It is a textbook on Biomechanics, and when it was published it caused massive controversy
Fitness Industry was FURIOUS that someone would question the superiority of compound movements but Doug did not care about being hardcore or how much he could lift He wanted to be exceptionally muscular, but also PAIN FREE