The Top 5 Strength Training Exercises - Get Maximum Results

Use these top 5 strength training exercises or movement patterns as the framework and foundation behind every workout you do.

They are simply the best exercises you can do for your body - for increasing strength, losing fat, building muscle and increasing health.

Build your workouts around these basic movement patterns and give you the most bang for your buck - the best results from your time spent exercising.

They have have been used by strongmen, athletes and sportsmen since the Iron Game began.

They will:

• Strengthen ligaments, tendons and bone

• Increase sports and athletic performance

• Train the muscle systems around your joints (stabilisers) in a functional manner

• Increase your balance

• Prevent injury

• Improve posture when performed correctly

These exercises should be performed with free weights - barbells and dumbells - which allow free movement of the weight in multiple planes.

Training on machines in a fixed planes weakens your joints.

But i'm only exercising to look good.

So wouldn't it be better to use the strength training exercises that as well as make you strong also make you functional, athletic and ready for anything?

Whats the point of looking the part if you're not.

After all we live in the real world where strength, balance, posture, speed and performance are all vitally important.

Using training in the way i'm talking about covers these real world qualities.

Most people avoid these exercises because they are hard.

People don't like hard - they like easy.

That's why the majority of people are mediocre.

So if you're happy plodding along to mediocrity leave these exercises out.

If you want to be the best you can, work these exercises hard and you'll reap the rewards.

Here they are:

The number one exercise and the first on the list in any exercise program is the king of strength training exercises - the squat. There is no other exercise (deadlift comes close) that gives you as much bang for your buckas the squat

Next is the Deadlift. When you talk about functional strength talk about the deadlift. It doesn't come any more functional than lifting a heavy object from the floor.

The ability to lift a heavy object overhead is next with the overhead press. Man has been lifting things overhead since he was standing on his own two feet.

Next up is the bench press which has long has it been recognised as a staple in the Iron Game for it's record in producing upper body strength.

Next up is pulling power. Chin ups and pull ups give you real world pulling power which no lat pulldown machine or rowing gadget will give you.

These exercises will transform your body like no other if you put the work in. Use them.