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Originally Posted by ronin0352

Now you're catching on. Seriously I, along with many others here, used to work out like that. It is a waste. Your body was meant to work as a unit, and isolating a muscle is working against your body's natural design. If you're a professional bodybuilder, looking to fine-tune the shape of your arms then do isolation. If you're a regular human, looking to gain functional strength and size, build arm strength with deadlifts, pull-ups, bench press, OHP, clean/jerk, snatch, etc, etc. I cringe when I think of all the time and effort I wasted in the gym doing a 5-day split, working one bodypart per day.

Same. I just started the Rippetoe SS program and have gained 3.8 pounds in 8 days. Would've taken me like a month+ to do that the way I used to lift/eat.