Every guy should be squatting. The compound exercise works the biggest muscles in your body, which basically triggers your body to start producing testosterone and all the chemicals you need

to get bigger all over. We used a video of a girl crushing over 200lbs to help inspire you in case you're worried about injury (which is reasonable and smart). There

are great resources online to help you work on your form and get to a place where you can really start seeing strength gains all over.

Similar to squats in how it helps with gains, deadlifting is essential in any exercise. If you're not deadlifting you're missing out on a great opportunity to strengthen your back

and help stretch your ham strings. Here's a great video on how to deadlift properly. 

It's one thing to get on the bench with a bar, but if you really want to strengthen your support muscle groups you definitely want to work this exercise into

your rotation. Obviously you probably will start with less weight than this guy.

It seems silly to pick up something and then just walk with it, but more and more research is coming out proving that Farmer's Walks are an essential gym activity. Practically, just on

a basic level it will help you pick up heavy weights and carry them over to another part of the gym.

In this day and age of sitting in front of computers, we're neglecting our shoulders. This exercise will help work your scapular muscles (behind the shoulders), improving your posture and

preventing shoulder injuries. See even Jay Pharoah thinks inverted rows are a good idea!

This one is all about the glutes. It also does a great job of increasing your flexibility by stretching your hamstrings. With that though, if your flexibility isn't great we

recommend listening to your body so you don't end up bending your back and hurting yourself. Here's a good instruction video.

Ok so we know this isn't just one exercise but instead many different exercises. Yoga is not only great for flexibility but for strength-building as well, not to mention how

it is the #1 way to prevent injury from these compound exercises you're working through. Go take a few yoga classes and get comfortable with the basic poses. Then/or maybe

download the Down Dog app and do your practice.

This will help with your Romanian Deadlifts and your hip hinges in your regular deadlift, you'll also be doing some huffing and puffing when you're done (hence great cardio). Check

href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGGdhwJ0Y-4" target="_blank">this video that tells you what NOT to do, which another good way of telling you what to do.

This obviously just has to be on the list but everyone should already know this is one of the best compound exercises out there. This big multijoint exercise is also a great

testosterone release which as we've already discussed leads to great gains. Did we mention lats?

This exercise is another great one for the glutes, which is good because the average human being sits on their ass all day not using that major muscle group (present

blog writer company included). If the whole idea of weight is putting you off then just try this exercise without and slowly work up to it.