Single Best Exercise For Strength — At Home Or At The Gym

Evan Liner
3 min readJul 25, 2020
Photo by Sven Mieke on Unsplash

Whether you’re a skinny guy just starting or an experienced lifter, this one exercise will help you improve performance in the gym and in daily life all while being at home.

Now, in order to call this the single best exercise, it must fit the following criteria.

  • Functionality
  • Accessibility
  • Low Risk of Injury
  • Overload Potential
  • Targets Full Body

There’s only one exercise that fits this criterion and destroys all others trying to compete: the farmer’s walk. To perform the farmer’s walk simply carry some weights by your sides and start walking. Make sure to keep your spine tall and look straight ahead, while keeping your shoulders tight. You can do this in your driveway, your backyard, or even in your house. Start with a weight you can carry for one min with proper form, and every week add on 2.5lbs to 5lbs or whatever you feel is right.

Functionality

The farmer’s walk is the absolute king of functionality. There’s not a more functional movement in existence. What could be more functional than carrying heavy objects from Point A to Point B? And because we carry things every day, this exercise will always be relevant and will always be…

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Evan Liner

A NASM certified personal trainer sharing his knowledge and ideas