Ono's guide to building muscle - Biceps

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Isolating any one muscle group is rarely beneficial towards any athletic pursuit.

True but the best way to build a total body of good muscles is to isolate the muscles during your workout. The thing is that you have to pair muscle groups together during your workout but on each exercise you isolate one muscle group at a time.


And on off days/cardio days you lightly work all muscles by swimming or something like that.



As for triceps they are an extending muscle and not a contracting muscle and therefore when it comes to punching then powerful triceps are a big help but they cannot be the ONLY strong muscle you have in your punch because you punch with your whole body.

IMO your core muscles are the most important abs and back...without them you can't build up your legs or upperbody as much as you can with that base of support for the weight to sit on

Yeh i agree core strength is very important. Especially in competition. That's why aggressive fighters (like ricky hatton) can struggle when moving up in weight (especially if they have to do it quickly). Their core strength isn't at the level of a naturally bigger fighter.....in most cases.