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How Many Exercises Per Muscle in a Full-Body Workout: Count the Sets, Choose One Exercise Per Region the Muscle Has, and Do Not Rotate for the Sake of It

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A full-body workout has a budget. Three sessions a week, an hour each, every major muscle in every session: the question of how many exercises each muscle gets is really a question of what a second or third exercise adds that more sets of the first would not. Nobody has run a trial titled "two exercises versus three," so the honest route is through the studies that varied exercises against a fixed selection and measured what changed.

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