Exercises To Define Muscles

This was a hard pill to swallow when I eventually learned the truth about this matter. I remember, back in the day, when my friends and I would attend the gym, we would have specific days where we did our definition exercises. Those exercises that were going to separate the muscles and give them that well polished look and that "cut" appearance. Well, some years and education later and I learned that there is no such thing as definition exercises.

There is exercise and there is hard exercise. One will keep you healthy and one will build lean muscle mass that will supercharge your metabolism and improve your overall health for years to come. The truth of the matter and I don't want to drag this out, is that there are no particular exercises that will define your muscles beyond what your body fat will allow to be seen.

Defined muscles, as it were, are well developed muscles with very little adipose or fat tissue around them which gives that really awesome toned look. Getting defined muscles has nothing to do with specific defining exercises but more with a reduced calorie diet to drop excess fat and a good training routine that builds muscle. Now if we were to actually entertain this idea and look at possible exercises that could cause muscles to be defined then we'd have to look no further than the exercises given in the monthly routines that are found on this blog.

Compound movements call more muscles into action which means that more energy is required and more muscle is developed as a result. So doing squats, deadlifts, chin ups etc, all the exercises we hate because they're difficult, are actually the exercises that build the most overall muscle. Other exercises can be implemented to target specific muscle groups but only after a solid base has been built.

Eat a clean diet, train hard and watch the definition come.