If you’re looking for various natural bodybuilding tips to maximize strength and muscle mass, try and remember that sticking to fundamental exercises like compound workouts is more effective than using any special tricks. Compound exercises target several muscle groups and increase the intensity of the workouts. This results in amore significant production of testosterone and other growth hormones which leads to more muscle mass.

Compound weight exercises enable you to target more than one muscle group or joint group at the same time. As an example some exercises will target the shoulders, chest and arm muscles with shoulder and elbow joint movements while others will target the quads, glutes and hamstring muscles with hip and knee joint movements. Put simply its like killing many birds with 1 stone.

Here are 3 helpful natural bodybuilding exercise tips you can follow to make use of compound weight training exercises and build additional muscle mass (take note that I wont be mentioning rep and set ranges):

Overhead Barbell Squats

This exercise is done to build strength and muscle in the legs. It can help you to improve general body strength in the process. To begin this exercise properly, you will need a good amount of upper and lower body strength as well as enough hip and shoulder flexor flexibility. It might take a little while to build up this strength. This exercise is done by pressing the barbell overhead with arms locked. Keep the barbell in overhead position, while you squat to at least parallel depth. This exercise will not only build your legs but will increase the flexibility and stability in your shoulders.

Take note that lower body exercises, while are tough, tend to produce a lot more testosterone.

Military Press

Try to incorporate the military press into your routine. This is one of the exercises to work your upper body as well as your delts. It is encouraged that new bodybuilders have a friend with them as this exercise can be demanding at first and back injury can occur.

By way of this exercise, you will be lifting weight over your head and you can do this exercise standing up or sitting. Somebody will hand you the weight or if done alone, you will be lifting the weight off the floor or grabbing it from the rack. You should position your hands shoulder length apart. Position the bar across the front of your chest in even length with your shoulders. With back held straight, raise the weight over your head until your arms are completely overhead without locking. Lower the bar steadily back into starting position and do it again.

Bench Press

This exercise enables you to lift weight while using the chest, triceps, shoulders and core. It uses the stabilizer muscles, its very popular and is considered a great general workout. Lie down on the bench with the barbell positioned on the rack. Put your hands on the barbell slightly wider than shoulder width. Lift the weight up and hold it over your chest (not your neck, that’s for more advanced lifters and is very dangerous) and lower it so that it just touches your chest. Quickly push the weight upwards making sure that both sides of the bar go up evenly, hold and lower.

There are many different natural bodybuilding tips available to you that include compound weight training. By combining a few compound exercises and doing a few sets each, you will be getting a high intensity, full body workout while you are gaining that muscle mass you are looking for.

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