5 Best Exercises for Men (ACCORDING TO WOMEN!)

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what’s up guys jeff cavaliere athleanx. com today we’re going to mix it up a little bit we’re gonna talk about the aesthetic side of things when training athletic but I always say if you want to look like an athlete you got to Train like an athlete well a lot of times guys have no other goals at all what they want to do is just look more aesthetic they want to get a better looking physique a lot of times to attract the attention of the opposite sex or I know there’s some guys on this channel don’t like to watch this channel that would care about men like finding them attractive and guys let’s totally find the idea is here I think the list is probably going to be pretty much the same the fact is there’s five muscle groups that were listed as the most desirable by women in this case for men and I figured I would help you guys to figure out what’s the best way to attack each of those five groups now I will preface this by saying one thing there’s never gonna be one exercise that will take care of an entire muscle group and develop it fully we know that not only should you be switching up exercises but you should be switching up the techniques that you used to do that all right so with that said I’m going to now cover in reverse order the way that those came out in that poll and not online poll the five most desirable muscle groups according to women and how we guys can do our best to try to bring out our best in each one all right kick it off this list at number five was shoulders this is a surprise to a lot of guys because they don’t look at it as one of those prime upper body muscle groups they think chest I think biceps don’t worry they’ll be on the list too but shoulders do one thing they say a lot about you before you even have to take off your shirt you will have a width to your upper body and set up a much more athletic looking body if you have wide shoulders that come down to a narrow waist so how do we do that guys we’re still going to put the athletic side back into how we train we’re still going to train like athletes we’re going to do it here with one of my favorites is the side lateral raise but we do it remember like I said techniques matter we do it with a one-and-a-half rep style and the reason why we do it want to have style is I talked about in a recent video the value of using partial reps to sometimes create more specific overload in the contracted position and when you’re looking at this exercise this is a good shoulder Widener right we can get our shoulders a bit wider we’re working on building up the medial deltoid so the more the medial deltoid sit out to the sides the more width we’re going to have we can get a better contraction here by using one and a half reps I think a lot of times guys will cut this short they’ll swing the reps up they’ll swing it down we’ll swing the red bump they’ll swing it down but they never really focus on letting the delts do all the work they let all the other muscles help and a lot as well as momentum and I think that hold you back from developing your delts the way you should so do the one-and-a-half rep style when you’re doing your side lateral raises you’ll do a lot better and helping them start broadening those shoulders yours number four as I promised guys it didn’t take long for this to appear five steps is on that list and the thing that women point out that they’re so infatuated about biceps is that it’s an instant form of recognition that you take care of yourself without again having to take off your shirt if you’re wearing a short sleeve shirt people can instantly tell if you workout if you have a good set of arms now you guys know how I feel about biceps and bicep training the absolute best exercise that you can use is a curl but that’s not saying much because there’s not a lot of options that you have when you’re doing bicep training everything you do is some form of a curl but it’s again how you do the exercise and here you can see me doing my favorite form of the baccara bicep curl that’s a barbell curl done with heavier weight than I normally can handle and done in cheat style and we’ve talked about the value of doing these cheat curls for building bigger biceps if you do them exactly as I’m showing you here you will you’ll be able to build your biceps much faster because you can overload the eccentric and that is a key component here for building bigger arms if you cheat and allow yourself to cheat just up to the vertical position and then slowly allow your arms to lower you’re getting that eccentric overload that will rapidly help you to build bigger arms but don’t go crazy don’t start cheating all the way past vertical this is not what I’m talking about talk about cheating up to the vertical part and then allowing your marks to come down slow it’s not cheating to vertical and then leaning the bar back continue to count down to number three it’s the chest so now we’ve hit those two big upper body muscle groups in addition to the shoulders that was sort of the sleeper group but this was an obvious one guys women want a guy that has a good developed chest and there’s better way to do this than with a variation of a bench press but here I think I’m gonna depart a little bit I like the underhand grip bench press not only has it been shown to activate even your upper chest when doing a flat bench position but here I’m doing an incline bench position but with even with the flat position you’re getting more activation of your upper chest fibers and you’re able to actually get your arms and forearms a little bit closer together to get a really good squeeze up at the top I think it’s got a few added benefits as well is that it puts your position of your shoulders into a better position for those of us who have discomfort when we do bench press we know that having our shoulders into a rotated or the overhand grip can just lead to additional problems if we already have bad shoulders if you don’t go for it but if you have bad shoulders some guys have to forego the bench press entirely and that’s gonna definitely compromise your ability to build a bigger chest somebody going underhand we put our shoulders in more externally rotated position we give us a little bit more clearance in there it feels better and again you get that better contraction so for me what better way to start hitting that chest than with the underhand bench press number two and probably surprising that it’s not number one the ABS now women of course are gonna want to see that you have not just as big flabby belly but you’re gonna have a defined set of abs and again I think just even for me as an athlete I can recognize somebody instantly a guy that’s more powerful than somebody else the guy that has the ripped atom and the guy that has the midsection and definitely carved out is almost always going to be the guy that’s more athletic and more explosive because we know how important the core is that every single athletic move we do so if we’re going to train it guys I always say make it train hard training of core as hard as you can and don’t just try to isolate movements but trying to incorporate rotation into what you do so here I’m showing you basically anything hanging is going to be harder than anything that you don’t do hanging but when you do a hanging exercise like the clocks here now you’re taking involving the obliques on top of just your rectus abdominis and one of the best benefits guys you can get from involving your obliques is this fact right here that your obliques will actually help to taper in your waist even if you have a blocky midsection if you have developed obliques in here you can to get this visual tapering that’ll give you the appearance at least of a much slimmer trimmer waist so if you’re going to only do one thing get up on the bar make it hard and then incorporate some sort of rotatio