When it comes to constructing an effective workout, it can be very confusing for most people. Especially when you read the magazines or exercise books, you can get so many different ideas that it can be totally confusing for the readers. As a Perth personal trainer, I get asked so many times about how kind of exercises are best for fat loss. My advice is keep things simple and learn a few fundamental movement-based exercises and practices them well for best results. When the exercises become easier, you can challenge yourself by increasing the level of difficulty by doing the difficult variation of the exercises. Below is the list of exercises that any novice should learn while starting out on a fitness programs.

Pushups

It is a basic and excellent exercise for toning and strengthening the upper body. Not only does it target the frontal part of the shoulder, chest and triceps, it also requires a high level of core strength from the abdominal muscles. There are also many variations to this exercise that range from the easiest such as knee pushups to the hardest such as full body pushups. Other variations include diamond push up and staggered arm position push up.

Pull-ups/Chin-ups

One of the hardest fundamental movement-based exercises listed here. It is definitely one of the must-do exercises as well. It is a fantastic exercise in building upper back, grip and arm strength. It targets the latissimus dorsi, bicep brachii and forearm muscles. For beginners, it is best to perform the inverted row whereby the person get himself under a secure bar about waist height and gripping the bar with arms shoulderwidth apart. From there, he will maintain a straight alignment of his body from head to heels and pull his body towards the bar. The next step is to do the chin-up on the pull-up bar.

Squats

For best overall fitness results and physiques development, it is important to do legs exercises such the squats. It targets almost every part of the legs that includes the quadriceps, hamstrings, and gluteus muscle groups. The variations are almost limitless in the squats. You can do bodyweight squats, back squats or even one legged squats if you have a pair of very strong legs. To get the best results from the squats, be sure to squat to a level where your thighs are parallel to the ground.

Lunges

A lunge is another great exercise for toning the legs and bum muscles. It not only trains the same muscles as the squats, it also trains the legs to balance the body weight. The variation includes dumbbell lunges, walking lunges and jumping lunges.

Plank

Plank is a great core strength building exercise. It develops core stability and targets the abdominal muscles without straining the low back that you can get from excessive sit-ups. The variations of the plank are side plank and stability ball plank.

In conclusion, you are not limited by the aforementioned listed exercises. The purpose of this article is to simplify things for planning a workout.