floorwork order question

[dimples237]

I've noticed that in both PS/LA and PLB Cathe does standing leg work BEFORE floorwork, and was wondering if there is a specific reason for that order? I've read in other posts that doing lower body isolation exercises (for the glutes, etc.) BEFORE doing squats, lunges, and leg presses enables you to thoroughly fatigue these larger muscles more effectively. For someone who builds leg muscle very quickly and easily, would doing floorwork FIRST be more beneficial?

What do the rest of you think about this? Thanks!

 

[kathryn]

Yes, when doing a gym workout, sometimes isolation exercises are done before compound exercises to target larger muscles. I think one of the reasons for floor work to go at the end of a video workout (I haven't seen a video workout that does floor work first) is the "flow" of the workout: going from a standing warm-up to standing to floorwork to seated or lying abs to cooldown.

With the good chapters in the PLB DVD, you could do your own floor to standing workout. I don't recall how the PS DVD is chaptered.