Top Exercises For Building Muscle

Start lifting weights when your calories are under control. Through weight lifting the extra calories turn into muscle. Some exercises suit weight gainers while others suit weight losers. For example aerobic exercise is for weight losers. As a weight gainer you should do more of anaerobic exercises. These types of exercises include exercises that last in short period of time and are done with high intensity activity. Examples are push up, chin up, bench press, squat, pull up and deadlift.

Push Up

Push up is a compound exercise that can be done without any fitness tool. It’s among the commonest and oldest exercises. It helps to delineate the chest muscles. It’s also good exercise for the shoulder, upper back, triceps and even the legs.

Chin Up and Pull Up

Alright the difference between chin up and pull up is the way you grab the bar. During chin up your palm faces you whiles in pull up it’s the opposite. Pull up is more difficult than chin up. Chin up deals with biceps and pull up is on back muscles.

Bench Press

This is an upper body exercise that is performed with a dumbbell or barbell and a bench. It’s common in most local gyms. Bench press works multiple muscle groups at once. It works on the pectoral, deltoid(shoulder) and triceps muscles.

Squat

This is a compound exercise. It works nearly every muscle in the body. As a friend once told me “if you not squatting, you not doing exercise”. Squatting targets the thighs, hips, knees, bones and the arms.

Deadlift

This is the lifting of a loaded barbell from the ground to a position where the knee is locked. Deadlift trains latissimus dorsi, trapezius, psoas, gluteals, erector spinae, quadriceps and hamstrings.
Note

Deadlift, bench press and squat are the three canonical powerlifting exercises.