What Are Some Of The Best Strength Training Exercises?

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When it comes to strength training exercises for beginners, it’s very important to know that you don’t need to do anything complicated to get strong. All it takes are some basic moves, consistency as well as patience.

When you first begin strength training exercises, the exercises can feel difficult which may have you scrambling over your feet to figure out how to build muscle very quickly so that your workouts don’t feel like punishment. After all, if every movement is a struggle, it may be challenging to motivate yourself to even start a strength training workout routine, let alone give it a solid effort.

The key to putting together an effective and pleasant strength-training routine is beginning with a solid foundation of exercises that work each and every part of your body. If you concentrate mostly on this handful of staple moves, you’ll notice that they’ll begin to feel easier with time.

That’s you getting stronger. And once that takes place, you can start progressing the moves by utilising heavier or different weights, trying advanced variations, or experimenting with completely new exercises altogether.

So what are the best training exercises out there? Here are our top picks.

The Best Strength Training Exercises

Bodyweight Squat

You squat every single time you sit or stand however don’t take this exercise for granted. It works your legs and your glutes, which are the most influential muscle group in the body.

Performed incorrectly, squats may be hard on your knees. As you squat, make sure that you keep your butt pushed out as if you are about to sit on a chair. Utilise the muscles in your hips and thighs in order to push yourself up. Don’t press your knees forwards as you move. If you’re doing it correctly, your knees will move only during the first half of the squat; your hips will finish the movement.

Add some plyometric motion to a squat by jumping from the lowest position back into your starting stance.

Lunges

Utilising the same muscles as the squat, the lunge replicates a primary movement pattern. Whenever you walk up and down stairs, up and down hills or even if you’ve just simply walked you’ve utilised a version of the lunge.

As with squats, there is a version of the lunge which is suitable for many clients, restricted depth supported lunges for beginners and full depth lunges that are loaded with dumbbells or barbells for more advanced clients.  Lunges can be used in order to help burn calories and firm or tone muscles. Alternatively, they are a great exercise to build strength and size in the lower body.

One point with lunges although – as they are ultimately squats being performed on one leg you should be very careful about adding too much load too soon with your clients.  Because the majority of the clients weight goes through one leg during the lunge, rather than both legs with the squat, there is much more loading with a lunge than with an equivalently loaded squat.

Deadlift

Deadlifts are considered as one of the best exercises to train the backside of your body, namely your glutes as well as your hamstrings. And as you’re working from a very stable base, you can really load up the weight on these strength training exercises. There are a variety of deadlifts, like the Romanian (where you lower your weight as you hip hinge), traditional barbell (where you pull your weight from the floor), and sumo (which has a wider stance and your toes which are pointing out at about a 45-degree angle.)

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