MOST GUYS GO about their business in the gym with one of two goals: They either want to build strength or gain muscle (or just as likely, they hope to achieve a bit of both). To achieve either of ...

A good example of a compound exercise is the squat, as it targets most of the lower-body muscles (quads, glutes, hamstrings) and your core in one fell swoop. You've even probably been incorporating ...

The Best—and Worst—Exercises for Tricep Gains, According to a Trainer originally appeared on Men's Fitness. The triceps brachii is a three-headed muscle that plays a critical role in elbow extension, ...

The path to core strength is as varied as the number of exercises that build your core system. There are hundreds of exercises from which to select when working to build the core, but this type of ...

Fitness experts in the United States agree that while compound movements build the foundation, isolation exercises are ...

What it does: The dumbbell bench press is a compound exercise that builds strength and size in your pectoral (chest) muscles.

Submariners have very little space, time, or equipment to exercise, and jumping onboard is banned. That may sound familiar to people who workout at home in apartments or small spaces. To work out like ...

For fitness purposes we can roughly divide the body into three sections: the lower body (legs), the core (abs), and upper ...

If you don't have a lot of time to devote to exercise, compound exercises are an efficient way to get the most out of your workout. Merriam-Webster defines "compound" as "something formed by a union ...

You've heard the phrase "simple, but effective." Compound exercises beg to differ. By getting more of your body working, compound movements give you more bang for your workout buck than isolation ...