You probably already know the health benefits of weight training. What you might not know is that doing weights is a shortcut to dealing with women problem areas such as unshapely legs, stomach pouch, jello arms, and lumpy hips and butt.
It is not also foreign that weight training can help you deal with back pain and osteoporosis as you age. It also helps promote an overall sense of well being and mental fitness.
But with all the available weight training routines available and the limited time you have, what're the best ones to do that are easy yet give you the most benefits?
This article shares with you the best of the best weight training routines out there that have worked for millions and millions of women, hundreds personally trained by me.
If you follow them religiously, I can guarantee that you'll get rid of your problem areas and you'll be an overall happier and healthier person.
OK, if you are contemplating on adding weight exercises to your workout, you should know that the best are compound exercises (as opposed to isolation exercises). Compound exercises are those that work multiple muscle groups in the routine while isolation exercises, by the word itself, works out isolated muscle parts in the routine.
Compound exercises is king, because they can save you time as they work out multiple muscle groups at a time as well as being very effective in getting you into shape and making your stronger.
So, given that you already know that compound weight training exercises are the most effective. Here are the five of the best that you need to focus your efforts on.
Press exercises
By press this means bench presses, military presses, push-ups, and all of their variety. Presses work the chest, the shoulders, and the arms. The leg variety includes leg presses, which then improve the quads and the butt.
Squat exercises
Very straight forward. With or without weights you simply go down from a standing position (like you are trying to sit down and to a squat) then return back up. You should go low and have your back straight as you do this. This works the core, the butt, and the quads as well.
Row Exercises
The back, the shoulders, the arms, and the abs are the target of these types of exercises. This includes seated rows, upright rows, bent-over rows with their corresponding variations.
Pull Exercises
Bringing your sexy back, this exercises work on your upper back, shoulders, and arms. Pull-ups and lat pull-downs generally fall into this category.
Crunch Exercises
For your very tight abs and lower back. You do this normally as the last of the five best compound weight training exercise because it doesn't involve much of the major muscle group (which should be tired by now due to the previous four exercises). You can do sit-ups, bicycle crunches, or the captain's chair to do this compound exercise.
So there you have it, you now realize that weight training is great for your overall health and fitness. In addition, among the weight training exercises available compound exercises stand out as the best. And among those compound exercises, the press, the squat, the row, the pull, and the crunch flies over the rest as the five best weight training exercises there is.