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Want to Save Time? Switch to Compound Exercises at the Gym

Certain people join a gym to just workout to have a fit body, but certain other join it to get a lean body, lean muscles and to burn the extra fats of their body. If you want to get the best out of your workouts in a limited period of time, you should focus on compound exercises. Athletes generally think that that they should workout one muscle at a time, and thus they split their schedule in order to workout the upper body first and then the lower body. But it has been proved now, that you can burn more of your extra calories and stimulate your muscle growth at a higher rate in a shorter time, by performing these compound exercises.

Many people try doing this split in their workout, dividing it according to the different body types, but they generally end up formulating a wrong workout schedule and might even end up over working out the smaller sensitive muscles of the body. It is necessary to understand that when you workout your larger muscles, you also very well workout the smaller assisting muscles along. It should be clear that it does not depend on how many hours you spend in the gym; the result that you get depends upon the fact that whether you have performed all the exercises correctly or not. Over working is no good, it might instead harm your body.

You can try certain compound exercises, during which you move multiple joints of your body and use several muscle of your body, at the same time.

Some of these exercises and their impacts have been discussed below:

1. Compound exercises help you to overload the muscle you are working upon, and allow you to work out several muscles at the same time.

2. For instance, if you do a leg extension, it only helps you to work out the front part of your thighs, but while doing a back squad, which is a compound exercise, you use more weight than in leg extension, and thus help in causing more growth rate of the muscles.

3. Thus to save time, back squad can be done, which helps in working out the abs, hamstrings and lower back at the same time.
Compound exercises add muscle mass, size and strength.

4. It stimulates many muscles at the same time and thus elicits a greater hormone response.