Welcome to the Get Fit Guys, quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield, and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

In today's episode and the next episode, we're going to delve into the best exercises for

seven popular trouble spots on your body. And in today's episode,

we're going to go over your legs, your calves, and your chest. Now, trouble spots are areas

on your body that tend to just not look the way you'd like them to look. These can be body

parts that are too fat and too skinny, not curvacious enough, don't have enough muscle, or too weak or prone to injury.

Basically, the type of troublesome issues that really bug you about your body.

And if you've ever wished you could just walk into a gym and get a done-for-you list of the very best exercises to target your specific trouble spots,

then keep listening. You can consider this two-part episode series your go-to guide to find out the

best butt, hip and thigh exercises, the best calf exercises, chest exercises, shoulder exercises,

back exercises, arm, and ab exercises. And like I mentioned, today,

you're going to learn about the legs, the calves, and the chest. Now, before we jump into how to

target those troublesome spots on your body, first, it's important to understand how we actually

know which exercises are best for specific

body parts. Now, sports and exercise scientists utilize many different tools and methods to help

them determine how much a muscle contracts during a specific movement, how many calories a movement

burns, or how much stress is placed on a joint during a movement.

One of the most popular and effective tools used to measure muscle utilization like this is

electromiography, also known as EMG.

Now, EMG simply measures the electrical activity produced by muscles, and it's performed using a special

instrument called an electromagnograph to produce and record called an electromagnogram, which

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