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June 16, 2023
Compound Exercises For Upper Body | Built With Science

What Are The Best Compound Exercises For Upper Body? Compound exercises are exercises that work multiple muscle groups across multiple joints.  While they do equally well at eliciting hypertrophy in a specific target group as isolation exercises when sets and reps are equated, compound exercises are undoubtedly a more time-efficient way of working out — […]

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June 14, 2023
The Top 10 Best Compound Exercises For Stronger Legs | Ultimate Guide

Best Compound Exercises For Legs Think about the number of major muscle groups in your legs. You have the quads, hamstrings, glutes, and (the regrettably often overlooked) calves. And that’s not even counting the individual muscles within those major muscle groups: That’s 12 individual muscles in total! It would be very difficult to use only […]

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June 14, 2023
What Are The Best Hamstring Compound Exercises?

What Are Compound Hamstring Exercises? To understand what compound hamstring exercises are, you’ll first need to know what compound exercises are in the first place. Now, all strength training movements are split into 2 main categories: Compound hamstring exercises are thus movements that target multiple muscle groups — including the hamstrings plus 1 or a […]

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February 3, 2023
The Barbell Squat: How To Do It PROPERLY For Growth (4 Easy Steps)

The barbell squat is KING ... of poorly performed exercises. But you don't have to make the same mistake as others. Learn how to (finally) do it properly for growth in 4 easy steps. Do the barbell squat wrong, and instead of growing nice quads and glutes, you'll feel aches and pains in your knees, […]

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August 13, 2022
EXPLOSIVE QUADS GROWTH: 5 Mistakes Keeping Your Legs Skinny

You can't build an impressive-looking set of legs without building your quads. Here, I show you the 5 key mistakes (probably) contributing to your chicken legs — and how you can fix every one of them. If you’re like me and appreciate a well-rounded physique, then you care about your leg development and understand its […]

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September 4, 2021
The Best Glutes Workout To Grow Your Flat Butt (GYM OR HOME!)

Struggle with a flat butt no more. In this article, I cover the butt workout (featuring 6 of the best glute exercises around) you should be doing for a perky butt. I'm going to show you a glutes workout with 6 of the best exercises to grow your butt. Here's what I'll go through: The […]

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January 30, 2021
The 4 BEST Glutes Exercises Ft. Bret Contreras (GYM OR HOME)

Struggling with developing and strengthening your glutes? Here, find the 4 best glutes exercises that'll give you a rounder, stronger butt. The glutes are a powerful group of muscles that play a key role in many movements. And, of course, just look good when they’re well developed. On both men and women. But they’re also […]

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January 4, 2020
The Best “Push Pull Legs Routine” For Growth

One of the most effective workout routines you can use to build muscle is the push pull legs split, in which your major muscle groups are split into three different workouts. Continue reading to learn how you can incorporate it into your training. Here's an introduction to how the push pull legs workout works: In […]

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October 13, 2019
How To Get Big Quads (3 Mistakes You're Probably Making)

If you've been religiously showing up on legs day and pushing through all the exercises meant for your quads, with no visible quads growth, this article is for you. Here, I cover how you can build big quads by avoiding 3 common mistakes. I’ll be honest with you. I’ve personally struggled with growing my quads […]

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April 10, 2018
Lower Body Leg Workout Exercises and Routines For The Gym

If you're looking for lower body exercises that adds more size and symmetry to your lower body muscles, then you need to read this article. This article is a continuation of my "upper body workout" post where I discuss how to best set up your upper body workouts. In this article however, we'll cover how […]

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