Mass Comunication

If building substantial muscle mass and strength is one of your primary fitness goals, then compound movements should comprise 70% of your workout. Single jointed exercises such as bicep curls hardly contribute to developing over-all muscular strength and size.

You don’t have to be a fitness guru to understand the tremendous advantage performing a deadlift has over doing a bicep curl. A simple comparison of the muscles worked during each exercise pretty much drives the point home.

Muscles exercised during a deadlift:

1. Splenius cervicis
2. Levator anguli oris
3. Serratus
4. Teres major
5. Illiocostalis
6. Intertranvesarii laterales lumborum
7. Longissimus
8. Serratus posterior inferior
9. Quadratus lumborum
10. Piriformis
11. Superior gemellus
12. Bicep femoris long head
13. Semitendinosus
14. Trapezius
15. Rhomboideus major
16. Teres major
17. Latissimus dorsi
18. Gluteus maximus
19. Bicep femoris, long head
20. Quadratus, vastus lateralis

Muscles execised during a bicep curl:

1. Biceps brachii
2. Brachialis

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