Top 5 free weights Exercises for a full body work out
Getting ready to get back into the gym and want to start a new program, have decided to finish losing fat before i get the NROLW, in the mean time i would like to know the best exercises for a fullbody workout that will help me maintain muscle whilst i'm in fat burning mode
so far i believe the following should be included:
Squats
Deadlifts
Bench press
bent over row
shoulder presses
are the any good variations on these, or articles that will help
Getting ready to get back into the gym and want to start a new program, have decided to finish losing fat before i get the NROLW, in the mean time i would like to know the best exercises for a fullbody workout that will help me maintain muscle whilst i'm in fat burning mode
so far i believe the following should be included:
Squats
Deadlifts
Bench press
bent over row
shoulder presses
are the any good variations on these, or articles that will help
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so far i believe the following should be included:
Squats
Deadlifts
Bench press
bent over row
shoulder presses
...
Those are great exercises. Check out Rippetoe's Starting Strength routine. I did those for about 5 months and gained 12lb of muscle and lost 10lb of fat. Not bad for a 45 year old. I did the StrongLifts 5x5 routine which is a variant of Rippetoe's. It included dips, pull-ups and chin-ups.
In order.
Squat
Deadlift
Power Clean
Bench
Pull-up
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box squats
conventional deads
bench
bent over rows
pullups
cleans - to technical and everyone does them wrong.
yea but we were talking about the best exercises for a full body, not about what people can do right or wrong. Cleans hit everything, and you don't need to row or even DL with them (maybe rack pulls). Plus, if you do full clean and jerks, you're getting back, shoulders/tris, and a front squat with one movement.
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wow guys thanks for so many responses, um not sure about pull ups being a newbie and a girl can't quite manage it yet, whats the best way to lead up to it? was thinking Lat pull downs?
wow guys thanks for so many responses, um not sure about pull ups being a newbie and a girl can't quite manage it yet, whats the best way to lead up to it? was thinking Lat pull downs?
Lat pulldowns will work. If you're close to being able to do 1, try assisted pull ups with bands, or jumping pullups with controlled negatives. There are lots of different protocols that will work and I'm sure everyone has an opinion.
Here's what I read years ago as the Top 7 for building muscle:
1. Deadlifts
2. Squats
3. Dips
4. Shoulder Press (Standing)
5. Bent-Over Row
6. Pullups/Chinups
7. Bench Press
yea but we were talking about the best exercises for a full body, not about what people can do right or wrong. Cleans hit everything, and you don't need to row or even DL with them (maybe rack pulls). Plus, if you do full clean and jerks, you're getting back, shoulders/tris, and a front squat with one movement.
True, you could maybe replace cleans with DB Snatches or better yet a DB Snatch + press. Those are easier to learn and do correctly, hit a lot of the body, and end up being a cardio workout to boot!
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The first exercise in the video below are ones I do a lot of... except I touch the ground with the DB's. It really gets the heart rate up and works a lot of muscles. Sometimes I actually "clean" but other times it's just raising the DB's from the ground to over my head. The weight determines the number of reps. Higher weight, lower reps and vice versa.
but you can't do flys and curls unless you have a squat rack!
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Top 5 free weights Exercises for a full body work out
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