Here’s the Best Exercises For Building Muscle

Not long ago I received an email from a frustrated individual who couldn’t understand why he wasn’t making any progress. In short, he wanted to know why he wasn’t building any muscle - even though he was working out four to five times a week.

When I asked him where he got the idea that he need to workout that often, he replied that most the websites he’d been to all listed a whole range of exercises, and that he needed to work out that often in-order to make sure he was using at least half of them.

Now call me simple, but don’t dare call me stupid. The whole point of working out in the first place is to build muscle - and lots of it. How anyone can figure that you need to make sure you are doing every exercise every invented to make worthwhile gains is beside me.

If you want to know the K.I.S.S. method to building muscle faster than you ever thought possible, with the least amount of exercises, then keep reading because you are in for a pleasant surprise.

Here’s the deal: Building muscle is more to do with intensity of effort, rather than the amount of effort. If you are working as hard as you should be to build muscle, than you don’t need to perform very many exercises at all. That is of course if you are performing the best exercises for building muscle in the first place.

So what are the best exercises for building muscle? Well they might not be the ones you think they are. Forget all the pumping exercises like dumbbell flyes, concentration curls, lateral raises and the like, and start thinking barbell squats, bench presses, and barbell rows. The plain fact is that a hard set of barbell squats will do more to indirectly increase the size of your biceps, than all the concentration curls you could do until now and the end of time.

Now get this - because not one in ten guys lifting weights today does. You are trying to build muscle, and to build muscle you need build strength, and to build strength you need to work up to using some impressive poundage in the basic exercises. Nothing else will do.

If you think I’m kidding about the need to increase the weight you lift in the basic exercises, than think again. Almost all the muscle you’ll ever build comes down to progressively lifting heavier and heavier weights in the basic movements. Basic exercises work more than one or two muscle groups, and because of that fact they tend to stimulate a great deal more muscle growth as a result.

So don’t get hung up on isolation movements. Especially if you haven't built up a foundation first. Focus on the basis exercises listed below instead:

1. Barbell Squats

2. Deadlifts

3. Barbell Rows

4. Chin ups

5. Parallel Dips

6. Bench Presses

7. Shoulder Presses

These are the exercises that will build your physique faster than you ever thought possible - and here’s why. Squats will stimulate growth throughout your entire body - and you probably won’t grow at all without them. Rows and presses will build your upper body fast, and do more indirectly for your arms than all the triceps extensions and concentration curls in the world.

You simply have to forget about making your workouts easier with pumping exercises so that you can workout more often without being sent to the emergency ward. Instead, focus on working out LESS, but making your workouts HARDER with basic movements, and heavier and heavier poundage. You won’t be disappointed.