Routine
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A combination of exercises assembled to work a specific muscle or muscle group.
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A routine is a combination of exercises to work a specific muscle/muscle group. It is the basic unit of program construction one level above the individual exercise: a routine groups several exercises together (e.g. for a single body part, or a full session) so that the target muscle/muscle group is trained thoroughly.
This is the general definitional term; specific implementations of "routine" appear elsewhere in the graph — e.g. Split Routine System (which body parts are grouped on which days) or a named sample program.
Key facts
- Routine = a combination of exercises to work a specific muscle/muscle group.
- One level of organization above a single exercise; below a full training system (e.g. split routine).
Connections
- Exercise Selection and Choice — choosing the exercises that make up a routine.
- Split Routine System — a specific system for organizing routines across a week.
- Repetition / Set / Repetition Maximum (RM) — the other basic resistance-training terms defined on this same source page.
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