Every exercise is a 'pull' not push vs. pull

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[ClockCutter]

The argument is fallacious. "We'll categorize muscles as pushes and pulls." No, we categorize exercises, or certain skeletal-muscular physiological functions, as pushes and pulls. But then he says every single exercise is only a pull, because muscle can only contract on itself. Wut? This is a composition fallacy, wrongly ascribing a property of the part to the whole. Because all muscle may be "contracting on itself", and hence pulling in a sense, it doesn't follow that the function of which those contractions are a part is also a pull. Again, it's the exercise, the physiological function, that's described as a push, not the character of the activity of all the muscles that are involved when pushing.

We talk about "pushing muscles" simply as the muscles employed when pushing something.They stabilize the shoulders and arms, or the feet and legs, so that we can push. We're not also describing the internal character of the activity of the muscle.

I mean, why even try to make this weird argument? I suppose I should go watch the vid, but I'm not, because of this logical howler.

[MarkusJenema]

So I have taken Anatomy/physiology as an elective I'm not a doctor but when your stabilizer muscles or even your major muscle groups are experiencing Tetanic Flexion I would argue there is in element of pushing happening not the muscle itself but in the act of holding and stabilizing weight but Also I could be not be understanding an aspect of the act and I am full of shit!