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Strength training exercises are done with the main goal of building strength or working toward the ability to lift a larger amount of weight. In contrast, other weight training exercises may be done with the main goal being to build muscle mass (which is making the muscles look larger and/or more defined). Often strength training exercises are large compound movements that involve multiple muscle groups like squats, deadlifts and bench presses.
The advantages of strength exercises are that they are efficient in building strength in multiple muscle groups simultaneously, as in the case of big compound lifts like squats, deadlifts and bench press. These types of strength exercises give you a foundation of total body strength that you can use to your advantage in any other athletic or strength training endeavor.
Muscle strength is defined as the maximum amount of force that a given muscle can produce with one effort (or repetition).
Three of the most common strength exercises are major compound lifts like the squat, the deadlifts and the bench press.
Some of the most common examples of strength workouts are the squat, the deadlifts and the bench press. These are all major compound lifts that involve multiple muscle groups at the same time.
The definition of muscle strength is the maximum amount of force that a given muscle can produce with one effort (or repetition).