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How To Build Muscle And Burn Fat With The Deadlift

By admin | August 4, 2008

Everyone wants to know how to build muscle and burn fat and do it quickly. After all people are busy. There’s no doubt about that.

Which is why I’m constantly asked for short, but effective weight training routines that people can fit into their hectic schedules.

A lot of times it even comes down to, “if you only had time to perform one exercise, what would it be?”

Well, that’s easy.

For a one exercise muscle building, fat burning, strength training, body changing workout, I’d go with the deadlift.

Hands down, no doubt about it, the deadlift will do more for you than any other weight training exercise around.

The deadlift will shift your metabolism into high-gear, not to mention your muscle growth.

While reasonable people can debate whether the squat or deadlift is a more effective muscle builder, there’s no doubt that the deadlift directly targets more muscle groups.

The deadlift hits just about every body part from head to toe - the abdominals, calves, lower back, quads, hamstrings, upper arms, forearms, shoulder structure and of course the upper back.

If you’re short on time, use a weightlifting routine that targets the deadlift.

Throw in a chest exercise like dips or the bench press and you’ve basically covered it all. You could use a routine like the following:

Bench Press 2 x 10 - 12 (not including warm up sets)
Deadlift - 1 x 20 (perform a few warm up sets first). It could look like this - 135 x 10, 185 x 5, 225 x 20.
That set of 20 should be an all out set.

It will build muscle and burn fat, not to mention even help out your cardio conditioning.

You can get through a routine like this in 10 - 20 minutes. Perform it two to three times a week.

Keep in mind, this is not a perfect weight training routine. But if you have busy times where you just can’t spare more time, it’s a very effective routine.

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