What Exercises Should You Do for Strength Training?

If you don't know much about weight training, consider hiring a personal trainer to help you set up your program. You should work all of your muscle groups each week so that you avoid muscle imbalances, which could lead to injury.

Below is a list of muscle groups along with sample exercises. If you're a beginner, you only need to choose 1-2 exercises for each muscle group in the upper body and 3-4 moves for the lower body.

-Chest: bench press, chest press machine, pushups, pec deck machine
-Back: seated row machine, back extensions, lat pulldowns
-Shoulders: overhead press, lateral raise, front raise
-Biceps: bicep curls, hammer curls, concentration curls
-Triceps: tricep extensions, dips, kickbacks
-Lower Body: Squats, lunges, leg press machines, deadlifts, calf raises
-Abdominals: crunches, reverse crunches, oblique twists, pelvic tilts