COMPOUND EXERCISES
Compound Exercises help you achieve more bang for your buck when it comes to lifting. It targets more than one muscle group, yielding efficiency and results. When you are trying to maximize time. This helps increase your output.
Real results from your workouts without spending hours at the gym. Compound exercises have stood the test of time. These lifts are designed to utilize proper form to ensure your workout is powerful and to set you up for success.
BUILD FOR EFFICIENCY
We can all say that life is super busy, and we don’t always have enough hours in the day to go to the gym. Within a short period, if you can get all the major muscle groups in your body engaged and stimulated, with only 8-10 exercises, your body composition undergoes a drastic and major change within a short duration. We recommend you take our signature Performance Energy pre-workout before you take on your compound lifts.
Additionally, compound exercises build your body proportionately. Since compound exercises and the type of movements you use involve major muscle groups, multiple joints are put to work, and your workout results are improved.
TYPES OF COMPOUND EXERCISES
There are many different types of compound exercises, including compound lifts like deadlifts. When doing compound lifts, stress exertion is systematic throughout neighboring areas and target muscles. In the case of deadlifts, the entire body is forced to get to work systematically, and you get results for your entire body as a whole.
When stress is uniform throughout, the GH and Testosterone cascade are put to constructive use for muscle building. Do you know compound lifts allow increased levels of weight to be shifted, which means optimal stimulation of muscles under tension happens?
Also, more muscle groups get to work, with fewer exercises. This means you don’t need to do a lot of different exercises. Compound exercises are time-saving, stimulate muscle fibers better, and speed up the recovery process.
TOP 10 COMPOUND EXERCISES
The following is a list of the top 10 strength building, compound exercises:
- Barbell Bench Press
- Pull-Ups
- Barbell Deadlift
- Squats
- Bench Step-Ups
- Military Press
- Dip
- Bent Over Row
- Shrug
- Close-Grip Bench Press
BENEFITS YOU CAN EARN
All compound exercises, including compound lifts, mimic muscle function as it is exerted in real life. By compounding exercises, muscles gain greater strength, and the results are practical, allowing us to do our daily routines with better efficiency.
So, those competing in athletic activities can have a good foundation and capacity to get multiple muscle groups to work simultaneously. Compound lifts also need more energy for completion, which tends to leave us depleted and exhausted faster.
This means our heart is pushed to work harder than when doing other types of exercises. The metabolic rate is higher, and the cardiorespiratory systems are in full swing, turning your body into a fat-burning machine for fat loss. Thus, it promotes a leaner, healthier, and muscular you. Learn more about compound lift benefits from ACE.
PROVEN RESULTS
Compound lifts are a proven way to build muscle faster. However, warm up before your workout by walking for a few minutes, jumping jacks, cycling, dynamic stretches, etc. Don’t forget stretches, yes, after your workout to help cool down and alleviate some soreness.
The next time you are searching for excuses to skip your normal workout routine, don't do it. Remember that strength training exercises are a way to save time, burn fat, and build smarter. Also, be sure to eat right and get adequate rest when you do strength training exercises for best results.