Exercises - Bodybuilding and Powerlifting

Exercises

This page contains a list of bodybuilding and powerlifting exercises. On each exercise page, you will find a description of that exercise, along with a video showing how the exercise is performed. Please note that compound exercises are listed according to the major muscle group that they tax the hardest.

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• Ab Exercises
• Back Exercises
• Bicep Exercises
• Calf Exercises
• Chest Exercises
• Forearm Exercises
• Hamstring Exercises
• Quad or Leg Exercises
• Shoulder Exercises
• Trap Exercises
• Tricep Exercises 

Ab Exercises

• Barbell Ab Rollouts
• Cable Crunch
• Decline Situp
• Dumbbell Side Bends
• Floor Crunch
• Hanging Knee Raise
• Hanging Leg Raise
• Jack Knife
• Leg Lifts on Bench
• Lying Knee Raise
• Plank
• Roman Chair Knee Raise
• Situps
• Twisting Cable Crunch
• Twisting Crunch
• Weighted Situps
• Wood Chop
  

Back Exercises

• Barbell Pullovers
• Barbell Rows
• Chinups
• Deadlifts
• Dumbbell Pullovers
• Dumbbell Rows
• Good Mornings
• Hyperextensions
• Incline Bench Back Shrugs
• Incline Bench Barbell Rows
• Incline Bench Two Arm Dumbbell Rows
• Lat Pulldown
• Lat Pulldowns Behind Neck
• Low Pulley Rows
• Machine Rows
• Pullups
• Reverse Grip Lat Pulldown
• Reverse Grip Seated Pulley Rows
• Seated Good Mornings
• Straight Arm Lat Pushdown
• Sumo Deadlifts
• T-Bar Rows
• Wide Grip Pullups
• Wide Grip Seated Pulley Rows
• Yates Incline Bench Rows
• Yates Rows

• Barbell Drag Curl
• Bicep Curl Machine
• Cable Curls
• Concentration Curl
• EZ Bar Curl
• Hammer Curls
• Preacher Bench Curl
• Seated Barbell Curl
• Seated Dumbbell Curl
• Standing Barbell Curl
• Standing Dumbell Curl
• Zottman Curl

• Donkey Calf Raise
• Hack Squat Calf Raise
• Leg Press Calf Raise
• Seated Calf Raises
• Standing Calf Raises
• Standing One Leg Calf Raise

• 2 (or 3) Board Press
• Bench Press
• Cable Crossovers
• Decline Bench Press
• Dips
• Dumbbell Bench Press
• Dumbbell Decline Bench Press
• Dumbbell Incline Bench Press
• Floor Press
• Flyes
• Incline Bench Press
• Machine Bench Press (Hammer Strength)
• Pec Dec
• Pin Press
• Pushups
• Smith Machine Bench Press

• Reverse Grip Barbell Curl
• Reverse Grip Preacher Curl
• Seated Barbell Wrist Curl
• Seated Dumbbell Wrist Curl
• Seated Reverse Barbell Wrist Curl
• Standing Dumbbell Reverse Curl
• Wrist Curl Over Bench
• Wrist Rollers

• Dumbbell Romanian Deadlift
• Lying Leg Curl
• Romanian Deadlift
• Smith Machine Stiff Leg Deadlifts
• Standing Leg Curl
• Stiff Leg Deadlift
• Sumo Stiff Leg Deadlifts

• Barbell Hack Squats
• Dumbbell Squats
• Dumbbell Stepups
• Front Squats
• Leg Extensions
• Squats, Narrow Stance
• Squats, Wide Stance
• Hack Squats
• High Box Squats
• Leg Press
• Low Box Squats
• Lunge Walking
• Lunges
• Overhead Squats
• Single Leg Extensions
• Sissy Squat
• Smith Machine Squat
• Zercher Squats

• Arnold Dumbbell Press
• Barbell Front Raise
• Cable Front Laterals
• Cable Side Laterals
• Dumbbell Front Raise
• Front Plate Raise
• Military Press
• Military Press Behind Neck
• Push Press
• Seated Barbell Front Raise
• Seated Barbell Overhead Press
• Seated Barbell Press Behind Neck
• Seated Dumbbell Press
• Seated Front Dumbbell Raise
• Seated Rear Delt Laterals
• Seated Side Laterals
• Seated Smith Machine overhead Press
• Side Laterals
• Standing Rear Delt Cable Laterals
• Standing Rear Delt Laterals
• Upright Rows

• Barbell Shrugs
• Dumbell Shrugs
• Power Shrugs
• Smith Machine Shrugs

• Bench Dips
• Cable Tricep Extensions
• Closegrip Bench Press
• Closegrip Press Behind Neck
• Diamond Pushups
• Dumbbell Kickbacks
• French Press
• Incline Bench Skullcrushers
• JM Press
• Seated Barbell Tricep Extensions
• Seated Dumbell Tricep Extensions
• Skullcrushers
• Smith Machine Closegrip Bench Press
• Tate Press
• Tricep Dips
• Tricep Pushdowns