Total Body Weightlifting Exercises for the Gym

Back:

We need to balance our chest by working out our lats. Lats are usually ignored by many novice strength trainers, which leads to injury. Make sure to balance out your body by paying special attention to your lats.

You could also perform pull-ups as part of your back routine. Remember on your back exercises to concentrrate on squeezing your shoulder blades together.

Legs:

When it comes to weightlifting exercises, I find that legs are usually never undertrained. Rather, most people overtrain their legs. It's not too hard. We use them every day. You do not need to do a dozen exercises to get a great workout.

Arms:

Like your legs, your arms are very easy to overtrain during weightlifting exercises. The biceps, triceps, and shoulders are supporting muscle for a lot of other exercises. It's not a bad idea to combine back and biceps or chest and triceps to reduce over training. If not, make sure to give enough rest days so your muscles can recoupe.

Shoulders:

Triceps:

We want to make sure we work all three heads of the tricep.

Biceps:

Abdominals

Abdominals do not really require weighted exercises to build them. They are developed more on volume and reps than on weight. The following exercises are organized from easiest to hardest.

Lower Abdominals:

Upper Abdominals

And there you have it. A complete list of total body exercises that you can perform on your next trip to the gym.