Do you have a tough job? Are you considering the use of some heavy compound weight lifting exercises to make your job easier? Then you are in the right place! Let’s check out a few key exercises for making your tough just a bit easier.

Squats

This movement is directly reflective of the old working adage, ‘lift with your legs and not your back!’ You squat down with a heavy weight on your back, and stand up with it. This is just like you do at your job with any number of tasks or items on a daily basis. Stand up – only do it with a heavy weight on your back. Additionally, squats release growth hormone for the entire body which will aid in overall muscle growth in every muscle group you have!

Deadlifts

This exercise directly contradicts the first rule of ‘lift with your legs’, as it directly requires you to pick up a heavy barbell from the floor and bring it to your waist. Most employers would frown upon this practice. However, it will help to build up your core of functional strength in every muscle group from your legs to back to glutes to arms. You will be stronger in every other movement you use, and you will be much less apt to become injured as your engage in other movement in the gym and in the workplace.

Biceps Curls

You don’t need big biceps for most of your tough job tasks, but you do need to be able to hook onto a heavy object and lift it without fear of injury. A few sets of biceps curls each week will cover you on this one!

Calf Raises

If you’re carrying heavy items up steps or even up an incline, then the use of high repetition calf raises with moderate weight will be in order. Use dumbbells to emulate the movement you will utilize in ‘real life’ at the job.

Forearm work

For many tasks, both in the gym and at the workplace, the grip or forearms are the area that fails first. If this is a problem for you, then you should consider the use of forearm curls or wrist curls (also known as Zottman curls) in order to build up the hand and forearm strength.

Keep in mind that all of these exercises should be used, if you wish to design a well rounded and balanced workout program. If you find that one exercise will assist you more than others in your job, then by all means you should make that your emphasis. However, you should avoid training only legs, or only your back muscles. Your body is a well oiled machine of muscle groups that work together in order to function in your everyday tasks. If you leave your back untrained, you will be more apt to tearing an abdominal muscle (and developing a hernia). Training your back but not your biceps could lead to a tear of the biceps muscle when picking things up. Ideally, you should be training your entire body with all of these movements for best results.

Dane Fletcher is the world’s most prolific bodybuilding and fitness expert and is currently the executive editor for BodybuildingToday.com. If you are looking for more bodybuilding tips or information on weight training, or supplementation, please visit www.BodybuildingToday.com, the bodybuilding and fitness authority site with hundreds of articles available FREE to help you meet your goals.

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