3 barbell workouts to reach your fitness goals

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Lounge, I wrote about how fitness enthusiasts should become friends with the barbell if they are serious about their goals. Just using a barbell can make your workout unique and test how creative you can get within the confines of good technique. There are some days when you don’t want to go through all the racks and machines, especially in a busy gym hour.

As long as you manage to get hold of a barbell, that should not be a problem. These workouts are called barbell complex workouts. “Complexes allow you to have fun, burn fat, and build muscle all whilst throwing about some heavy weights," states an originfitness.com article titled The Barbell Complex.

Done one after the other and with the same weight but without setting the barbell down fully, a barbell complex usually comprises three to six exercises. Doing five reps of a hang clean followed by five front squats and five push presses for a certain number of sets is usually the starting point. The complex part comes in when you do one rep of each in a one-after-the-other format.Or a flow.

“Each exercise should have an easy transition into the next. For example, a clean and press, one immediately after the other and the end point of the clean is the starting point for the press," adds the article. Get your form checked for all these exercises and then start adding them to the routine.

Here are a few workouts you can try to get the hang of it. Caroline Girvan’s 10-minute barbell complex:As with most starting points for something different, we head to Caroline Girvan’s channel again, with a very doable set of exercises in a short space of time. The weights she uses are not very heavy and scalable.