Perks: This compound movement
allows multiple muscle groups to be worked with one exercise, making it time efficient and adding to the difficulty of your workout.
Not exact matches
These also
allow you to work with heavier weight and train
multiple muscle groups at the same time, encouraging better overall
muscle gains.
We've selected the following five moves because they target
multiple muscle groups at once and
allow you to burn fat while building
muscle — which is the optimal combination for getting the most bang for your buck.
As compound exercises recruit
multiple muscle groups they
allow you to build more
muscle and strength than isolation movements alone.
Utilising
multiple muscle groups allows you to build coordination throughout your
muscles as well as strength and size.
This
allows you to hit
multiple muscle groups within the one exercise.
They
allow you to work
multiple muscle groups at once, and
allow you to easily add a lot of
muscle stimulating weight to the bar.
This could mean using aerobic movements with light weights, concentrating on not one, but
multiple muscle groups,
allowing their heart - rate to reach its fitness potential the entire training session.
Try to consider multi-joint exercises as it
allows you to lift more and work
multiple muscle groups at the same time (May Clinic, 2015).
The idea of cross training is to build
muscles effectively by working out
muscles that work together and thus
allowing for the stimulation of
multiple muscle groups in a single, effective and intense workout.