Answer: A compound execrise is an execrise that works with mutiple muscle groups at the same time so your stomach. Three benefits of compound exercise are burning more calories, improving strength, and gaining more muscle mass, and improving flexibility. Three compound exercises are squats, lunge, pull up, push up, Four types of workouts that use compound exercises are the push which trains the pressing muscles of the chest triceps, shoulders the pull trains the back muscles, biceps, knee flexion trains the muscles of the quadriceps and adductors in the leg. One way is to track your effort with RPE is to find your heart rate on the inside of your wrist and use the tip of your first two fingers and press lightly over the artery and count your pulse for 30 seconds and multiply by 2 to find your beats per minute.