Thursday, November 19, 2009

My Top 10 Lifts to Get Jacked


Getting bigger and stronger isn’t as complex as some people may think. Assuming your nutrition is dead on for gaining muscle there is another part of the equation. I think too many guys make this part too complex, or take the easy way out by NOT doing these lifts. Sure these lifts are hard. They make you sweat. They make you sore. They make you hurt. They also make you "jacked"!

In no particular order I am going to outline the lifts I use with myself, as well as my clients to get bigger and stronger.

1. Squat
2. Deadlift
3. Bench Press
4. Chin Up
5. Push Press
6. Farmers Walk
7. Dips
8. Powerclean
9. Romanian Deadlift
10. Front Squat


There you go. These lifts should be the bulk of your program if you want to get “jacked”.

If you get as strong as possible on these 10 lifts for the next year, ate BIG, and trained with utmost intensity, you would be very surprised at just how “jacked” you have become.

Did I leave any lifts out? Whats your top 10? Got any questions?

Let me know in the comments down below!

4 comments:

Rob Sinnott, MS, CSCS said...

solid list hoss, here is mine
1.Back Squat
2.Incline Bench Press
3.Deadlift
4.T-bar Row
5.Front Squat
6.Clean and Press
7.RDLs
8.Chinups
9.Pullups
10.Pushup & Dip superset

Chase Karnes said...

@ Rob - Nice list man. I like the similarities.

Jess said...

Could you maybe explain these so that those of us who don't know what all of them are can, maybe try them?

Chase Karnes said...

@ Jess - Yes, sure can. Anything in particular?