Top Mass Building Workouts You Should Be Doing Now

As you may know, there are many techniques to getting ripped and building muscle. To look really good you may want to use a gym to help you on your journey. However, you could be wasting your time doing the wrong exercises the wrong way time and money. You should do these top mass building workouts to get closer to your goals quickly.

Read on to find out the right exercises you need to be doing immediately to build a nice mass and look great.

Squats

Squats are great in developing stronger legs. When doing this type of exercise, it's important that you follow the right technique and form. Much like with other exercises, form and technique plays a huge role in the effectiveness of your routine.

Make sure your back is arched when using a barbell when doing squats. Your chest should be out; your head tilted back (or looking up during the set); and feet a little wider than shoulder width.

Doing it the right way will make executing the exercise a whole lot easier.

Bench press

Bench presses are considered as the bread and butter of people who want to develop really strong and big chests. If you walk in a gym, you'll notice that most guys are doing this. However, you'll also notice that not everyone has the proper form.

Without proper form, not only will these people not develop chest muscles, you can also hurt yourself. Also, don't be like the other guys who only wish to brag about how much weight they can take so they pack their bars with so much weight and start lifting.

This would not help that much because these folks are more than likely got to throw the weights. Doing it this way will not use the muscles in your chest.

What needs to be done instead is to lower the bar to your chest real slow and then easily push it up towards your head. Ask any trainer and they will tell you that the negatives, or the force you feel when you slowly lower the weights, help a lot in developing and strengthening the muscles. You'll get more results by gently lowering the bar.

Deadlifts

Doing deadlifts can improve your mid to lower back. These are a few workouts that you need to do later on in your exercise program. You'll build thickness and strengthen the muscles in your back with this exercise.

Again, doing it the right way is very important. You should keep your feet apart and your back arched.

Straight Leg Deadlifts

Doing leg deadlifts will target your hamstrings. This is one of those that are really simple to do with the right form. Remember to stick your butt out, arch your back, have your chest up, and head tilted back. When you lower the weight down, always remember to stick your butt out and bend at the hips.

Military Presses

Military presses are great for developing the shoulders. You can choose between pressing the weight behind or in front of your neck. Do whatever pleases you. You just have to remember that your forearms need to be completely perpendicular to the bar and your back and butt should be pressed against the seat.

Some people think that building bigger muscles would require doing so many complicated exercise routines. It doesn't work that way. You can still get great with not much exercise as long as you do the right techniques with the right form. These top mass building workouts should help you go from being scrawny to bulky.

A Sample Chest Workout Routine

As the largest muscle group, at least in the upper body, the chest muscles require specific targeted exercises. Known as pectoralis, or "pecs", the chest muscles are fan shaped and rather thick. Since these muscles are so big, the only real way to effectively build them is by using heavy weight and dedicating a day in the gym to their development.

An important note: the pecs are considered pushing muscles. This means that they tie in very closely with your arms and shoulders - specifically your deltoids and triceps. After completing your chest workout routine, it is natural to feel that these other muscle groups have been worked a bit as well. Also, you should know that the amount of weight used in your workout directly effects the spread, depth, and size of your pecs.

A quick overview of exercises that target the pecs:

Bench Press - this is definitely the "go-to" chest exercise. As there are many different ways to do this, lets review the basics. While laying on a flat bench, use a wide grip on the bar. Lower the bar to your upper chest/lower neck area. Repeat.

This exercise is diverse. Changing the grip and where the bar is lowered to changes the area of the muscle that is impacted (inner, outer, upper, lower). Also, using a decline or incline bench will effect different areas of the muscle.

Dumbbell Exercises - free weights can be used to imitate a number of machine and bar exercises. For example, I like to use dumbbells to do incline bench press. They work well for flies, which are a great exercise for stretching the muscle.

Parallel Bar Dips - this one is tough if you have never done it before. With hands placed at shoulders width apart, lower your and raise your body between a set of parallel bars. Widening the hands places more stress on the outer pecs and deltoids.

Pushups - this is another classic yet super effective chest exercise. When you think about it, these simply imitate the bench press but use your bodyweight instead of a bar.

It is agreed upon in the exercise community that a good chest workout routine begins with the heavier weight exercises such as the bench press, works on through dumbbell exercises, and finishes with bodyweight exercises.

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