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Compound exercises

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Mickdog

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How about we put together a list of compounds that would be good in everyones workouts.

Squat
Dead lift
Bench Press
Over Head Press
 
Bent row
Pullups
Chin ups
T bar rows
Parallel bar weighted dips
Incline weighted pushups
Incline bench
Chest supported row
Barbell curl - technically not a compound but still a great upper body exercise
 
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Darkoz said:
Bent row
Pullups
Chin ups
T bar rows
Parallel bar weighted dips
Incline weighted pushups
Incline bench
Chest supported row
Barbell curl - technically not a compound but still a great upper body exercise
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When I see people curl in commercial gyms it looks like a compound exercise to me.
 
The barbell curl is an underrated exercise, you seldom see someone work this exercise with the same intensity as the others.
 
How about hardest?

1. High rep Squats
2. High rep Chin ups

Where do deadlifts go? Haven't done them in so long but I preferred them when I did to chins....
 
I can't tell whether you blokes are taking the piss or not. I would say-

Deadlift, squat, clean and press, jerk & snatch.

Benchpress maybe if your doing it righ.
 
Fluffy said:
I can't tell whether you blokes are taking the piss or not. I would say-

Deadlift, squat, clean and press, jerk & snatch.

Benchpress maybe if your doing it righ.
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Theres two there that have ruined at least a thousand backs for each one they've helped.
 
I thought everyone knew all the major compound lifts, more or less, and the fact that they're good value (for time and energy put in), etc.

I'd be interested to hear about which isolation lifts the people here consider essential (like curls, mentioned a couple of times upthread already), and why. But hey, in case that sounds like threadcrapping...

Squat, deadlift, bench press, row, overhead press, chinup... and some compound abdominal thing of choice. You could go a fair way with just those, I reckon.
 
Goosey said:
For bodybiulding purposes you'd be a fucking idiot to use them.

If you are an Olympic lifter, different story.
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I assumed you were talking about squat and dead, but you meant the o - lifts?

I fucking have no idea with shatch and jerk and my clean form sucks, they are fucking hard to learn.
 
Fluffy said:
I assumed you were talking about squat and dead, but you meant the o - lifts?

I fucking have no idea with shatch and jerk and my clean form sucks, they are fucking hard to learn.
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What's fucking up this forum is stupid simpleton comments like this.

1. This is the bodybiulding section
2. The squat and deadlift are not fucking powerlifts, they are exercises, and the most productive ones at that.

I'm sick of this shit.

Olympic lifts have no place in a bodybiulding program.
And I mean bodybiulding in terms of building a fucking body, not teareing it down.
Now fuck off an leave me alone FFS.
 
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