What's going on, Beaches? Welcome to episode 2978 of the Daily Swole podcast.

Today I want to talk a little bit about exercise selection because I get a lot of questions about

what exercise is best for chest, for calves, for biceps, for biceps, whatever it is.

There's a few criteria that I take from, a few pieces of information that I use

in order to choose my exercises. First thing is first, whatever you choose should be something that

is effective, is going to target the muscle tissue optimally. If you're trying to build muscle, you want it to be a

stable exercise, something you could progressively overload. And then, of course, you want it to be

something that you're going to adhere to, something you're going to look forward to doing.

I'm hesitant to use the word enjoy because you know how I look at these things. You want to

enjoy it in the sense that I look forward to doing this machine.

This one really works well for me.

I want to do it again because it's going to get me results.

That type of adherence.

You're going to have a love-hate relationship with different piece of equipment.

You don't need it to be entertaining.

But if you like the hack squat machine at your gym, you should probably

have that be a foundational aspect of your leg training because it's going to help you be consistent

and you're going to optimize your results because you are looking forward to doing that exercise.

You like the way it feels.

It doesn't hurt your elbow or your knee. It feels good

on your shoulders. Whatever the movement is, it should feel good and you should be able to overload it.

You don't have to get into the weeds of, is this muscle in a lengthened position, a shortened

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