Full Movement for Fat Loss

Here’s a secret to your success for building quality muscle and shedding fat from your body: use full body movement exercises in your workouts.

Using full movement exercises, like squats rather than leg extensions for example, allow you to use more muscles, build balance and coordination, and expend more calories during your workouts. Full movement exercises will also give you more quality muscles which mean having the strength to complete physically challenging tasks with more ease.

Why waste your time doing isolation exercises that target one specific muscle like biceps when you can do a biceps curl with shoulder press combination exercise (also called a Hybrid exercise) and still build your biceps along with strong and shapely shoulders. You’ll also be strengthening your body for a typical task of curling and then lifting an object up and overhead like lifting a box to put on a top shelf.

Here’s a quick, yet challenging, 300 Workout you can do with your own bodyweight and dumbbells to develop usable muscle while burning more calories, and thus, fat, from your body.

Key: Bodyweight (BW), Dumbbell (DB)

20 Mountain Climbers
20 BW Push-ups
20 DB Single arm clean and press (10 reps each arm)
20 DB bent over row (10 reps each arm)
20 Bodyweight squats
20 DB curl and press
30 Jumping Jacks

For a visual of this routine with moving animation CLICK HERE.

Use a weight that you can handle for 10-12 repetitions and repeat these 7 exercises for 2 rounds which will get your 300 total reps. For recovery, rest only 20 seconds between the exercises and a full 90 seconds between the rounds.

You’ll be on your way to building quality muscle, losing unwanted body fat, and burning calories for hours after your workout is completed.

Robert Garza, CPT, RTS

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