Exercise Guides
10 Lateral Raise Alternatives To Make Your Shouders Pop
With 16 years in the trenches and having coached hundreds of clients, I’m not shy to admit that the dumbbell lateral raise is my favorite exercise.…
Shoulders Exercises
Step-by-step shoulders exercise guides: setup, form cues, muscles worked and variations for each movement.
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Core
Transform Your Core: Master the Hollow Roll for Total Ab Strength
As a veteran personal trainer with over 30 years of professional experience, I know abs and core training can be repetitive and boring. That’s because most…
Exercise Guides
Seated Dumbbell Lateral Raise: Targeting Key Shoulder Muscles
In my experience, the seated dumbbell lateral raise is one of the best isolation exercises for promoting lateral deltoid hypertrophy. However, upon thorough research, I also…
Arms
Push-Ups Vs. Dips: Which One Should You Do?
According to popular opinion, the bench press is the best chest exercise. It’s undoubtedly the most popular. Consequently, most bodybuilders do bench presses to pump up…
Calisthenics
Wide Push-Ups: Strengthen Chest, Arms, and Core Effectively
I’ve been doing push-ups for as long as I can remember. They were a staple of my upper body training when I was an athlete, and…
Arms
Bodyweight Standing Row with Towel to Strengthen Your Upper Back
The Bodyweight Standing Row with Towel is a simple yet highly effective exercise for developing upper back strength, especially targeting the rhomboids, trapezius, and rear deltoids.…
Exercise Guides
Chest-Supported Y Raise: Strengthen Your Upper Back Muscles
Chest-supported Y raises are an effective exercise that can help build strength, promote hypertrophy, and improve posture. A study titled “Variation of muscle recruitment during exercises…
Exercise Guides
Dumbbell Push Press: Strengthen Deltoids and Build Power
There are more overhead press exercises than most lifters will ever bother to memorize. The dumbbell push press is an excellent barbell overhead press alternative. A study…
Arms
Seated Pike Pull-Ups: Target Your Back and Core Effectively
Pull-ups are my favorite back and biceps exercise. In terms of efficiency and effectiveness, they’re almost unbeatable. However, I also understand that the pull-up is beyond…
Chest
Master the Suspension Chest Press for Total Upper Body Strength
The suspension push-up is a bodyweight-based exercise that utilizes high-hanging straps with handles to provide resistance during different muscle and strength-building exercises. The famous TRX trainer…
Exercise Guides
15 Best Shoulder Exercises According to a Fitness Expert
As a veteran personal trainer with over 35 years of hands-on experience, I can attest that most people limit their shoulder workouts to a few sets…
Exercise Guides
Master the Squat Jerk: Target Your Legs, Core, and Shoulders
Overhead presses and squats are two of the best exercises to build strength and muscle mass; the squat jerk delivers a bang for your buck by…
Exercise Guides
Transform Your Shoulders: Master the Band Y-Raise Exercise
The band Y-raise is a precision-based isolation exercise targeting the backside shoulder muscles in addition to the rotator cuff, entire shoulder joint, and two bottom-most heads…
Back
Band Reverse Flys: Strengthen Rear Delts & Upper Back Muscles
When was the last time you saw the backside of your body? For some of you, it’s been months or even years. Your posterior gains are…
Exercise Guides
Band Shrugs: Strengthen Your Traps and Upper Back Muscles
Band shrugs are an alternative exercise variation targeting the trapezius muscles utilizing elastic rubber bands that when stretched, create increasingly more resistance. Your trapezius or trap…
Exercise Guides
Master the Band Front Raise for Stronger Shoulders & Chest
The band front raise is an accessory shoulder exercise that targets the front-facing head of your tri-muscle deltoids just above the biceps. Every time you go…
Exercise Guides
Band Shoulder Press: Build Strong Deltoids & Triceps Today!
While we don’t foresee gyms or weight training being fazed out ever, the fact is, with the lasting impacts of covid on our daily habits, more…
Core
Weighted Plank: Strengthen Core & Sculpt Your Body Effectively
Lots of exercises are labeled as “the best,” but such accolades are purely subjective. Squats are often described as the king of exercises and the best…
Back
12 Best Dumbbell Trap Exercises For Building a Bigger Back & Shoulders
The trapezius muscle, or traps, is the second biggest back muscle group after the lats. These triangular-shaped muscles extend from the base of the skull to…