What kinds of exercises should we do to build muscle? You wanna learn to kick harder? Is bench press going to do the job? Nope, not likely! Hey, bench is good exercise, but it's not going to get you a black belt. What sort of exercises do we need to do if we're trying to get bigger muscles?



Let's think about it. What should we do if the goal is to gain muscle and put on some solid weight? The best exercises are called comprehensive exercises. Why waste time doing lots of small ones when we can get better results with one big exercise right?

It takes about a 1 hours time (probably closer to 45 minutes) to warm up, workout and cool down before our body starts turning against itself. The last thing we want is our body burning muscle fibers for energy. So keep the workout short, and intense so we can get as much done as possible in this short time. What's the secret? The comprehensive exercise.

The Comprehensive Exercise List

These are the best exercises you can do to to work out and gain muscle fast. When you do these movements, instead of smaller movements, you'll workout your whole body in less time and make better gains.

# Standing Free weight Squats

# Flat Bench Press

# Stiff Deadlifts

# Military Press

# Bent Rows

# Wide Grip Chin Ups (Bit Hard? Do Heavy Lat Pull Downs until you're stronger)

# Dips (if you can't do dips do Decline Dumbell Bench Press with your hands facing each other)

These last 2 exercises are great, but not 100% essential to stimulate massive muscle growth. You'll get so much from the other exercises that you can do them later if you're feeling especially energetic! They're great substitutes for days when you're bored with your workout, or you're trying to stimulate more growth by changing it up a bit.

Do at least 3 workouts each week, and make sure you do squats during every workout. They're the foundation of your body and they're the largest muscles too. Working them out hard will stimulate your body to produce testosterone more efficiently.

By the way: YOU MUST WORK HARD. These exercises are THE BEST. So don't change them. Work out the exercises and work them hard. Do between 5-7 repetitions, and do 3 sets each. Lift as much weight as you can and if you're not confident, get someone to spot for you. But don't slack off! You're the one who must do the work. You want to get bigger right?

The secret to making massive muscle gains in short amounts of time is to stress your body with INTENSE PHYSICAL RESISTANCE TRAINING. Use the same weight throughout the sets. i.e. if you start bench with 50kg, use 50kg the whole workout for bench. Change it up next workout by about 2.5% Keep good form and you'll get great results. Never lift more than you can do 3 sets.