When it comes to exercising, we all start out with the best of intentions. However, life will inevitably get in the way, and it can be hard to fit everything in. Most of us live life on the go and it can be hard to incorporate a traditional exercise routine, such as exercising individual body parts on separate days, into a hectic schedule. Whether you need something that meshes well with your lifestyle or you’re looking for the best way to torch fat, full body workouts are the way to go.
Balanced
One of the greatest benefits of full body workouts is that they’re always balanced. Hitting all or multiple major muscle groups in one session delivers balanced exertion that more closely mirrors real life. If you ever need to do something that requires physical exertion in your day-to-day life, such as help a friend move, you’ll need to rely on the functional strength of your entire body. A guy with huge biceps but a weak core and legs won’t be as helpful as someone who has balanced full body strength.
Movements that isolate only a certain muscle group, like bicep curls or triceps pushdowns, are known as isolation exercises. They’re great for body shaping, but they have the potential to disproportionately train certain areas of the body. If you only ever train chest and biceps, then the other areas of your body will be weaker and your overall functional strength will suffer. Despite being different and serving different purposes, all the muscles in your body are connected, so training them all at once makes more functional sense.
Efficient
Full body workouts are also a great way to maximize the overall efficiency of your time. Often, full-body workouts will incorporate compound exercises, meaning movements that recruit more than one muscle group at a time. For instance, a squat is a compound movement that engages all the muscles in your legs, butt, core, and lower back where as a leg curl engages only the hamstrings and glutes.
By using compound exercises in conjunction with training your entire body, you burn twice the amount of calories than if you were only exercising your biceps. They require more energy to coordinate movement and demand more oxygen be provided to the working muscle groups. All of these factors lead to a higher calorie and fat burn. Plus, full body workouts are typically done with high-intensity, which further serves to stimulate the metabolism into overdrive even long after the workout is over.
Flexible
In a perfect world, everyone would have the time to workout five times a week, and we’d all be able to take the time to coordinate a routine that effectively exercises the entire body. This, however, is typically not the case. Sometimes life just gets in the way. When you do full body workouts, missing a day won’t throw off your routine. They’re easy to integrate into a busy schedule because you can jump right in without having to worry about over- or under-exercising a particular area of your body.
In addition, the high-intensity nature of most full body workouts means that they don’t last as long as most traditional routines do. Rather than spending an hour lifting weights followed by thirty minutes on the treadmill, you can get your aerobic and anaerobic exercise all done at the same time. Many full body workouts last only an hour or less and yet they’re twice as effective as traditional workouts. The shorter duration makes them much easier to fit into a busy schedule.
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