Masheen

Glossary

The words a program assumes you know, each in one plain sentence and one drawing.

Lifts and their short names

What the letters in a program stand for.

Isolation lift An isolation lift is an exercise in which one joint moves and one muscle does most of the work.

Researchers call it a single-joint exercise. A 2017 study names the dumbbell fly and the knee extension as single-joint exercises, against the bench press and squat as multi-joint ones, which lifters call compound lifts.