Core
Master the Side Plank: Strengthen Your Core and Obliques
Isometric exercises like plank variations are a beneficial addition to any core training routine. Aside from strengthening your midsection and hips, side planks are great for…
Core Exercises
Step-by-step core exercise guides: setup, form cues, muscles worked and variations for each movement.
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Core
Master Side Bridges: Strengthen Your Core & Improve Stability
Plank-based exercises such as oblique-focused side bridges help to build a solid strength foundation in the core and entire body. Isometric in nature, bracing your midsection…
Core
Side Crunches: Sculpt Your Obliques and Core Strength
Despite the popularity of all these new age ab building exercises, side crunches still remain a viable option to target the oblique muscles of the core.…
Back
7 Best Rack Pull Alternatives for Muscular Back
The deadlift is probably the most satisfying exercise you can do in the gym. Sure, the bench press is cool but gripping and ripping a heavy…
Core
Seated Leg Raises: Strengthen Your Hip Flexors and Quads!
Some exercises are iffy as to whether they’re effective or not, but seated leg raises will have your abs burning almost immediately. It’s one of those…
Core
Rolling Bridge: Strengthen Glutes, Core & Lower Back Today!
The rolling bridge is more of a therapeutic release technique combined with resistance exercise and stretching all in one. It’s a great way to release tension…
Back
Revitalize Your Rhomboids: Effective Middle Back Stretch Guide
If there was an award for simplest stretch ever it would probably be this one. The middle back stretch can be done safely and effectively and…
Back
Engaging Pull-In Exercise for Core Strength and Stability Ball
If you’ve mastered basic crunches and lying leg lifts then it’s probably time to step up your ab workouts with a more advanced core training technique…
Core
Transform Your Core: Heel Touches for Abdominal Strength
Although no one has ever counted, there are probably more exercises for the abs than any other muscle group. There are bodyweight, cable, kettlebell, freeweight, floor…
Arms
Ultimate Devil Press: Full-Body Workout for Strength & Tone
It’s hard to believe that CrossFit has been around for over two decades. What was initially labeled a workout fad soon became a fitness phenomenon, and…
Core
High Knee Raise: Strengthen Your Hip Flexors and Core
A lot of people believe that the best way to lose weight, burn fat, and get in shape is to go to the gym. After all,…
Arms
Wall Push-Ups: Strengthen Your Chest, Arms, and Core Muscles
There are over 600 muscles in the human body, and each one works in synergy with its neighbor to control your movements. Muscles are made of…
Arms
Kipping Muscle-Up: Target Your Upper Body and Core Strength
Much like the popular CrossFit-based kipping pull-up, the kipping muscle up is a technique used to complete more work (timed workouts) in less time. This multi-movement…
Core
Plyo Jack: Boost Your Strength & Endurance for Total Body Fitness
Jumping jacks are a staple calisthenics activity but aside from a decent cardio workout, they’re pretty basic. Plyo jacks are a more challenging variation of the…
Core
Lateral Bounds: Engage Your Lower Body and Core Muscles!
Lateral bounds combine many different aspects of fitness and performance including plyometrics, resistance training, joint control, balance, athletic movement, and cardiovascular fitness. Few movements can compare…
Core
Build Strong Legs: Master the Otis Up for Total Lower Body Fitness
You could think of the otis up as a glorified sit-up with added resistance and a challenging workout for the shoulders. We don’t know where it…
Arms
Ring Dips: Target Your Chest, Arms, and Shoulders Effectively
The bench press is arguably the world’s favorite chest exercise. But, despite its global appeal, the bench press is actually a relatively new exercise and only…
Arms
Table Bridge: Strengthen Glutes, Core & Lower Body Muscles
Except for pull-ups, chin-ups, and rows, most bodyweight exercises are pushes. That is to say, they involve some form of joint extension and drive your hands…
Arms
Strengthen Your Glutes: Master the London Bridge Exercise
Rows and pull-ups getting a little redundant? If so, the London Bridge should definitely be on your radar. A powerful bodyweight back and grip builder, this…