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Top 10 Compound Exercises

Don’t have much time to workout? Want THE top muscle builders? Want to develop real strength? If so compound exercises should be the core of your strength routine!

Compound exercises are simply exercises that target more than one muscle group. For clarity, exercises that target a single muscle group are called isolation exercises. Anyway on to the Herculean strength builders!!

Squats

 

The good old traditional squat should be a part of any strength workout

Clean and Press
This exercise will work the muscles AND the heart and lungs, it’s like a workout on its own!!

Deadlift

 

You can move some big weights eventually with this strength builder

Chin Ups
Tough to do at the start but worth persevering with as they will give you a fantastic physique

Bent over Row

 

Really works the back, but make sure of your form when performing this exercise

 

Press Ups

 

The good old fashioned press up has lasted the test of time for a reason!

 

Dips

 

Another time tested exercise

 

Bench Press

 

THE way to work out those pecs

 

Lunges

 

A great leg builder that will also build explosive strength and the heart and lungs

 

Crunches

 

Not strictly a compound exercise but simply the best way to work those abs! Click for groundbreaking information on fat burning