Are you wasting your own gym time?
Sometimes going to the gym seems time-consuming because of the other programs or a college workout plan you may have heard about across the internet.
Usually, they try to pack in a lot of stuff and it seems like you’re getting a lot done.
What’s usually happening is someone is throwing a more intermediate or advanced routine at you disguised as a beginner setup.
This is a problem because more advanced college workout routines require more volume and more exercise variation to continue seeing results.
But for someone just starting out… you don’t have to worry about that.
You can see great muscle building results by creating a college workout routine with only a handful of exercises each week.
And right here… I’ll tell you exactly which ones I recommend…
#1 – Deadlifts
Even though the deadlift sounds gruesome and scary, there’s really nothing morbid about it.
This exercise can be performed using the barbell or dumbbells and works a variety of muscles including your hamstrings, quads, abs, lower back, biceps, and forearms.
#2 – Chin-ups or Pull-ups
Chin-ups are one of the most underrated exercises and more people don’t do them simply because… they’re hard.
…but not only do they work your biceps, shoulders, forearms, upper back, and abs, but you look like a bad-ass doing them too.
#3 – Bench Press
Everyone and their mother does bench press and it’s because it’s a powerful compound exercise that works your chest, triceps, shoulders, and abs (and even your quads if you do proper leg drive).
#4 – Dips
Sure you can work your triceps with pull-downs or some other isolation movement, weighted dips are the whole package.
It’s another cool body weight exercise that will kill a group of upper body muscles including your triceps, chest, shoulders, and abs.
#5 – Squats or Leg Press
Squats get a bad reputation because people report getting “injured” doing them.
Well, it’s usually because they do ridiculous things like balancing on balls or loading the bar up with more weight than world-record powerlifters.
However, squats are incredibly effective at building mass (there’s no question about it).
You’ll need to do either barbell squats or the leg press machine to nail most of your lower body muscles including calves, quads, hamstrings, glutes, and abs.
#6 – Overhead Press
Finally, you can’t leave your shoulders out of the equation and that’s where the overhead press comes in.
The overhead press, either standing or seated, is your go-to student workout exercise for working your shoulders, but also your chest, triceps, upper back, and abs.
I Have a Bonus Video for You!
This post and the YouTube video is actually part of a bigger series called 7 Common Fitness Mistakes College Students Make (And How to Avoid Them).
In this bonus video I cover a bunch of other mistakes including:
- Failing to eat healthy just because you’re confined to a college meal plan
- Thinking you need to go to the gym in order to get a good workout
- Going to the gym at the wrong times (yes there are wrong/right times)
- Spending too much time in the gym (like 50% too long at least)
- And others!
Plus I teach you how to solve them all!
To watch this video, just click the button below and I’ll actually send it to your Facebook profile. Don’t believe me? Go ahead, try it!