What if there can be only one?
What if you could only pick one exercise, one to build the most muscle mass….one to stimulate the most hormonal responses….one to just master and progress with as the gains keep coming. So what would it be? The squat? Bench press? Tricep kickbacks? (I kid….I kid)

So let’s first define what it does take to increase muscle. How about exercises that do the following:

Use the major prime movers (compound lifts for the big muscles)
Stimulating those muscles with enough resistance (keeping reps lower and weights higher)
Increasing the …

Note from Editor: This is a Guest Article from Internationally known Strength and Conditioning Coach Charles Staley (Director of Staley Training Systems)

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