The Best Exercise You Should Do

The Best Leg Exercise
The best leg exercise: barbell squats

This is the best exercise for adding leg muscle. Here’s how to get 
tree-trunk thighs:

1. Stand with a barbell across the back of your shoulders.
2. Bend your knees and hips to lower yourself until your thighs are parallel to the floor, then rise to the starting position.

The Best Abs Exercise
The best abs exercise: bicycle crunches

 

 To carve out your core, follow these instructions:

1. Lie on your back with your knees bent to 90 degrees. Lace your fingers behind your head. Move your knees towards your chest and lift up your shoulder blades.
2. Straighten your left leg and bring your left elbow towards your right knee.
3. Switch sides then pump in a cycling motion.

The Best V-Shape Exercise
The best exercise to build your v shape: lat pulldowns

 

Lat pulldowns is the best builder of upper-back mass, as they isolate your back muscles. For a muscular back that will make your waist appear smaller, do this:

1. Sit at a lat pulldown station and grab the bar with a wider-than-shoulder-width grip, palms facing forward.
2. Keeping your back straight, pull the bar to the top of your chest.
3. Pause, then let the bar rise to the starting position.

The Best Barrel Chest Exercise
The best exercise for a 
barrel chest: flat dumbbell bench press

 

Dumbbell bench press used slightly more muscle than its nearest rival, the barbell bench press. Here’s how to build a treasure chest she’ll adore:

1. Lie on a flat bench, holding a dumbbell in each hand above your chest with your elbows locked.
2. Lower the weights to the sides of your chest, then press them back to the starting position.

The Best Triceps Exercise
The best exercise for triceps: decline triceps extensions

Triceps make up 66 per cent of the muscle in your upper arm — ignore them at your peril. The following move uses 92 per cent of the muscle fibres in your triceps:

1. Lie on a decline bench and position a barbell above your shoulders.
2. Bend your elbows to lower the weight until it is behind your head.
3. Keep your elbows pointed up throughout the move.
4. Straighten your arms to return to the start.

The Best Biceps Exercise
The best exercise for biceps: straight bar preacher curls

 

This move roped in a whopping 90 per cent of the muscle fibres in biceps. To tighten your sleeves, do this:

1. Grasp a bar with an underhand, shoulder-width grip. Lean across an incline bench and extend your arms fully.
2. Bend your elbows 
to curl the weight up as far as possible.
3. Keep your elbows anchored.