What is your favorite exercise for each bodypart?

MR. BMJ

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Here's mine:

Overall Legs: Squats
Quads only: Hack Squat
Hams: Sitting and laying Leg Curls
Calves: Standing Calve raises
Chest: Low incline Smith Machine
Front Shoulders: Smith front presses
Side Shoulders: Dbell Lateral raises
Rear Shoulders: Reverse Pec Deck
Back Thickness: Rack Deads
Back Width: Hammer Pulldowns or Bentover barbell rows
Tris: Close-grip smith bench or overhead dumbbell extensions
Bi's: Barbell curls and Hammer
Forearms: Hammer Curls and DC one-arm cable reverse curls
Upper Abs: machine crunches
Lower Abs: Decline leg raises or decline crunches
 
Overall Legs: Squats
Quads only: Hack Squat ( but my gym does not have a hack machine.
Hams: Sitting and laying Leg Curls
Calves: Standing Calve raises (my gym only has a seated so I will do them in the smith machine, but not as good as a real standing machine)
Chest: Smith Machine bench, flat, incline, decline
Front Shoulders: Smith front presses and front cable raises as well
Side Shoulders: Cable Lateral raises
Rear Shoulders: Reverse Pec Deck (love these but my gym now doesn't have one. so I do cables for these as well)
Back Thickness: Rack Deads (don't do these much the last year due to lower back issues)
Back Width: Bent over barbell rows and cable pull downs
Tris: Close-grip smith bench or heavy reverse cable extensions
Bi's: dumbell curls and cable curls
Forearms: Hammer Curls
Upper Abs: machine crunches and weighted cable crunches
Lower Abs: leg raises or reverse crunches
 
Overall Legs: Squats
Quads only: Front Squats
Hams: Standing Leg Curls
Calves: Seated Calve raises
Chest: Push ups
Front Shoulders: Front raises
Side Shoulders: Lateral raises
Rear Shoulders: Reverse Pec Deck
Back Thickness: Rows (any kind)
Back Width: Pulldowns
Tris: reverse tricep pulldowns single arm
Bi's: DB curls
Forearms: Jerking off
Upper Abs: ball crunches
Lower Abs: hanging leg raises
 
Some of these are hard to pick just one...

Quads: front squats, split squats
Hamstrings: wide squats, stiff leg deads
Glutes: split squats, feet close-ish
Spinal erectors: good mornings
Back thickness: dumbbell rows (one-arm, whatever kind really)
Trap: barbell shrugs
Back Width: wide and narrow pull-ups
Chest: DB bench/fly hybrid, DB bench, DB fly (hmmm...) Oh! and weighted dip.
Shoulders: Overhead press
Front Shoulders: steep incline wide grip "bench" press
Back Shoulders: 45 degree reverse DB fly
Triceps: close grip bench press
Biceps: who fucking cares. okay fine, BB curl if I could do it. arms-out-incline-hammer-curl (stolen from CT fletcher)
Forearms: any kind of hammer curls, maybe farmer's walk (we'll see)
Calves: standing and seated calf raises, full ROM, 5+ days a week!!!
Abs: ab wheel rollout (use a ramp)
 
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Overall Legs: if I had and L5
Quads only: Hack Squat
Hams: Single leg standing and laying Leg Curls
Calves: leg press Calve raises
Chest: Low incline Smith Machine
Front Shoulders: Smith front presses
Side Shoulders: Dbell Lateral raises
Rear Shoulders: DB seated rear delt row
Back Thickness: Rack Deads if my L% wasn't fugged
Back Width: T-bar
Tris: close grip decine and heavy DB french press over a bench
Bi's: preachers
Forearms: wrist curls
Upper Abs: cable crunch
Lower Abs: leg raise
 
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Overall Legs: leg press
Quads only: Hack Squat
Hams: sldl & laying Leg Curls
Calves: Standing or seated Calve raises
Chest: smith or bb incline press
Front Shoulders: Smith front presses or bb pbn
Side Shoulders: Dbell Lateral raises
Rear Shoulders: Reverse Pec Deck
Back Thickness: bb or tbar rows
Back Width: pullups
Tris: skullcrushers or french press
Bi's: Barbell curls and Hammer
Forearms: standing bb wrist curls behind back
Abs: rarely do abs - occasional set of roman chair crunches if I do

*** If younger and/or no joint/lumbar issues, deads, squats, bench press & dips would all be there. Put in almost 25 years on all of them before having to give them up.
 
Squats for legs
Bench for chest
Hammer rows for back
Military press shoulders
Stair climber for cardio
Machine preacher curls for biceps
Dips for triceps
Forearms never really do anymore
Traps bb shrug
Lats pull ups wide grip
 

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