Best Bodybuilding Exercises To Do

Best Bodybuilding Exercises To Do

If you want to see all the best bodybuilding exercises I have you covered, I will also show you where to get free videos at the end of the article. If you are wondering which exercises to do. You should start with the larger compound movements, as these work the most muscle and give the best results. These are exercises that use two joints. For example: The bench press is a compound movement because you use the shoulder and elbow joint to do them.

Bodybuilding Exercises For Chest

The best bodybuilding exercise for the chest has to be the bench press. This mainly works the chest (pectoral) muscles, as well as the shoulders and triceps (on the back of your arm). You can use both the barbell and dumbbells. There are some variations you can do like an incline bench press which will put more emphasis on the upper chest and shoulders; Or the decline bench press which targets the lower chest and triceps.

Another great chest exercises is dips. These target the lower chest and triceps more. They are generally known as a triceps exercises, but are one of the best chest exercises when done with a wider grip.

Moving onto isolation exercises for the chest: You can use a dumbbell fly. This targets the chest without much help from other muscles, like when doing the bench press. Another good isolation exercise is the dumbbell pull over, which also uses the back muscles somewhat.

Bodybuilding Exercises For Back

A great exercise for the back is the chin up (or pull up). This mainly works the lats muscles which run down the side and middle of your back, while also working the biceps and other supporting muscles. These are mainly used to get a wider back. You can use the cable pull-down machine if you cannot do chin ups, for the same effect.

For more back thickness and some more width; rows are great for the back. Rows can be either barbell bent-over rows, cable rows, one-arm dumbbell rows. Stiff legged deadlifts are another great exercise that promotes back thickness, while also working your lower back.

To work the upper back you should use wide grip cable rows and face pulls. These also help correct your posture, so make sure you do them.

Bodybuilding Exercises For Shoulders

The best compound exercise you can do for the shoulders is the military press (also known as the overhead press and shoulder press). You can use dumbbells or barbells and be either seated or standing. This exercise works you front, middle and back part of your shoulders. It is great for putting on mass and strength to your shoulders. You can also use an Arnold press which is similar to the military press if you like.

For isolation exercises you can use the side lateral raise. This gives your shoulders a wider look and targets the middle of the shoulder. Front lateral raises target the front of the shoulder and bent-over lateral Raises targets the back of the shoulder.

Bodybuilding Exercises For Biceps

The best exercises for the biceps are curls. There are many variations such as the barbell curl, dumbbell curl, preacher curl, gironda drag curl etc. If you are going to do a lot of biceps exercises, try to use exercises that work the biceps through different angles.

Bodybuilding Exercises For Triceps

The triceps have one main compound exercise which is the close grip bench press. These also work the shoulders and chest, but mainly target the triceps (back of arm). The rest of the triceps exercises are mainly variations on a triceps extension such as the lying triceps extension, french press and cable push down.

Bodybuilding Exercises For Legs

For the legs you should mainly be doing two exercises: Squats and deadlifts. These are two large compound exercises that work more muscle than another other exercise. Squats mainly target the quads (front of legs), while also working most of your lower body. Deadlifts place more emphasis on the back of you lower body, but still works all of your lower body.

After squats and deadlifts you can use exercises like lunges, leg extension, leg curl, leg press, glute-ham raise etc. These all target specific specific areas of the legs and butt, but should mainly be supplementary exercises for squats and deadlifts.

Bodybuilding Exercises For Abs

I will say from the start here that sit-ups are not a good exercise for the abs. There are other better exercises which activate the abs better and are safer to use. These include the reverse crunch, hanging leg raise, plank and similar variations.