Exercise Categories

Find your desired exercises by choosing between the following main categories:

• Strength Training - exercise guide to gym, home or office as well as outdoor strength training
• Endurance Training - exercise guide to cardiovascular training
• Flexibility Training - exercise guide to stretching and enhanced flexibility
• Fitness Equipment Guide - exercise guide to different (home) fitness equipment

Exercise Ranking

Exercise Guide

The Exercise Guide is very simple to use: Clicking on the desired category in the green navigation bar displays a list of the most relevant exercises. You can adjust the criteria of the sort with the above drop-down menu. At the same time the menu to the left side allows a comfortable browsing through the exercises, sorted by muscle group, muscle(s) and equipment(s). Exercise descriptions contain all important information on the correct execution:

• Animated exercise perspective view or still picture perspective view
• Classification by type of exercise, force direction and equipment and tools
• clear instructions, explaining the initial preparation, proper execution and optional variations / comments
• views of the most significant positions, mostly starting and ending position
• detailed information on the muscles involved, sorted by target muscle(s), synergist(s) and stabilizer(s)

Glossary

Exercises

Classification		Description
Type	Basic	When browsing the Exercise Guide, basic exercises carry a larger blue square in front of the exercise name. They are characterized as principal exercises that involve more muscle groups than auxiliary exercises or need a higher overall stabilizing tension force.
	Auxiliary	Auxiliary exercises carry a smaller blue square in front of the exercise name. They are optional exercises that can place high intensity one particular muscle.
Mechanics	Compound	Compound exercises, sometimes also called complex exercises, include two or more joint movements.
	Isolated	Isolated exercises include only a singe joint movement, therefore they isolate the specific responsible muscle.
Direction	Push	A push is a movement away from the center of the body during the concentric contraction of the target muscles involved.
	Pull	Pulling motions move toward the center of the body during the concentric contraction of the target muscles involved.

Muscles

Muscles		Description
Function	Target	The target muscles are the primary muscle used during an exercise.
	Synergist	Synergists support the target muscles.
	Stabilizer	Stabilizing muscles contract during an exercise, but only for stabilizing purpose without significant motion.