About

Where it comes from

The body you turn is Z-Anatomy, an open-source anatomical atlas built from medical imaging data: each muscle is a real surface in its real place, not an illustration drawn to look roughly right.

Every word of anatomy and technique was written for this site. The muscles each exercise trains come from an open exercise list; the technique and the mistakes on every exercise page are original writing.

Who made this

One person, who was new to the gym and could not get a straight answer to what does this actually train. Everything that came up was either an anatomy reference — a Latin name, an origin, an insertion — or a list of exercises with nothing behind it. The answer is not complicated. It just was not written down in one place, in one voice, for somebody who wanted both halves.

There is nothing to sell here, and no sets, reps or programmes: those depend on you, and a page cannot know anything about you. It is also why the pages are plain. They carry no ads and no trackers, and they open on gym wifi.

Credit

The 3D anatomy comes from Z-Anatomy and BodyParts3D, both under CC BY-SA. See Licences and attribution for the full notice, the typefaces and the source links.

Work together

Have an idea we could build together?

Want to collaborate on WhatMuscle, use it in your teaching, or explore a new way to help people understand movement? I’d like to hear what you have in mind.

Write to ali.yaakoub@whatmuscle.com.