Are you looking for a workout program that works your entire body? Well the first thing to do is to stay away from all those fancy machines.
They are actually harmful to a whole body work out.
This is because they isolate various muscles from each other and limit your muscles to a single plane of motion.
Your muscles were designed to work in coordination and a wide range of motion.
To that end the types of exercises you will be doing to work your entire body at the same time are referred to as compound or multi joint exercises.
These include such exercises as pull ups, dead lifts, dumbbell snatches, clean and jerks and others.
The benefit of these types of exercises is that they cause you to exert so much energy that your body goes into a state of metabolic shock and is burning calories at a higher rate long after the workout is over.
The following is a four day workout program.
If you are training for maximum strength 2 two sets of each exercise with 1-5 repetitions.
If you are training to lose weight and build endurance do more sets and more reps.
Day 1: Clean and press, Squats, dumbbell snatches, bench press Day 2: bent over rows, dead lift, chin ups Day 3: military press, lunges, dips, dumbbell swings Day 4: renegade rows, straight legged dead lift, pull ups You may notice that I didn't include any curls.
This is because curls only work one muscle and are a pretty useless exercise.
If you must do curls though do them with one arm and use a barbell.
This will work your forearm as well.
They are actually harmful to a whole body work out.
This is because they isolate various muscles from each other and limit your muscles to a single plane of motion.
Your muscles were designed to work in coordination and a wide range of motion.
To that end the types of exercises you will be doing to work your entire body at the same time are referred to as compound or multi joint exercises.
These include such exercises as pull ups, dead lifts, dumbbell snatches, clean and jerks and others.
The benefit of these types of exercises is that they cause you to exert so much energy that your body goes into a state of metabolic shock and is burning calories at a higher rate long after the workout is over.
The following is a four day workout program.
If you are training for maximum strength 2 two sets of each exercise with 1-5 repetitions.
If you are training to lose weight and build endurance do more sets and more reps.
Day 1: Clean and press, Squats, dumbbell snatches, bench press Day 2: bent over rows, dead lift, chin ups Day 3: military press, lunges, dips, dumbbell swings Day 4: renegade rows, straight legged dead lift, pull ups You may notice that I didn't include any curls.
This is because curls only work one muscle and are a pretty useless exercise.
If you must do curls though do them with one arm and use a barbell.
This will work your forearm as well.