Today’s fitness programs tend to focus on functional fitness, which refers to exercises that stimulate real-life activities and use a wide variety of movements through a wide range of motion. Burning fat is typically the average person’s goal yet the overachiever’s goal is burning fat as fast and effective as possible. So what is the most effective way to burn fat faster? Compound exercises.
Any exercise that involves the use of more than one major muscle group at a time is categorized as a compound exercise. Multi-joint movements. Typically, there is one larger muscle group that ends up doing the majority of the work, and then one or smaller muscle group that picks up the balance. Basically, if an exercise involves pushing, pulling, squatting, or deadlifting, it’s usually training more than one muscle group, and that makes it a compound exercise.
Engaging in exercises using multiple muscle groups burns more calories and fat than your typical isolation exercises. They also trigger the release of more muscle-building growth hormones as well as build functional strength which is applicable to everyday life.
Compound exercises are both preferred and recommended when one of trying to get the most out of their training program.
There are a magnitude of reasons to add compound exercises to your workout including the following:-allows you to get a full body workout faster-improves coordination, reaction time, and balance-improves joint stability and improves muscle balance across a joint-decreases injury risk-keeps your heart rate up and provides cardiovascular benefits-allows you to lift heavier loads and build more strengthAdd compound exercises to your workout to achieve the best results. Gain more muscle and strength to burn double the calories and fat! An ingenious addition to one’s workout.