It doesn’t matter if you have the best gym in the world or only a few weights at home. If you are not doing a workout correctly, your results will not be the same. When it comes to targeting muscles, we should know a few things. How much weight are you doing for a certain exercise? If you are performing a Lat pull down with heavy weight, is your chest up high, elbows tucked in as you pull own, are you not swinging? There is this weird misconception that you need to put more weight to stress the muscles for them to grow. Yes, I personally agree. But, if you are not targeting the muscles properly for them to grow, even with heavy weight, what is the point? I can see doing this for an ego boost, but other than that there should be no reason. A tip, if you must swing or jerk weights on almost every rep, the weight needs to be lower.
Another example of trying to target muscles, is the one arm dumbbell rows. I can’t count how many times I see people jerking the weight, barley pulling back, and just using almost all arms. If you want better definition, strength, and better results over all, form is so key in targeting muscles. Pull the weight slow and try to squeeze the area you intend to work. Even if you want to go for strength such as 2 heavy reps, those reps should be slow and pulled back all the way, not throwing the weight into your body. If you are competing or want to for example, doing movements correctly will change everything. There are so many big and small muscles in the body that you need to pay attention to a movement being performed. This can make or break someone who is competing, because everything is so detailed on muscles, you shouldn’t be able to afford wrong form while lifting. Even if you are trying to lose weight, sure movements can be performed a little faster, but still correctly.