Training
Overtraining: How Much Exercise Is Too Much?
Fitness experts LOVE to argue! Ask a group of ten trainers how best to achieve your workout goals, and you’ll probably get ten different answers. Some…
Training
How to train: programming, technique, exercise science, cardio and recovery.
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Nutrition
How Long Should You Wait to Workout After Eating?
Have you ever started a workout only to feel nauseous after a few minutes? Or maybe you’ve begun to feel tired partway through your training session…
Body Mechanics
The 10 Best Back Stretching Exercises
Your spine is a wondrous thing. It’s made of 33 bones called vertebrae, fibrous discs that absorb shock and facilitate movement, connective ligaments, and a large…
Training
Training When Sick. Should You Hit the Gym or the Sack?
We are living in tuff times. The world has not encountered a global pandemic like Coronavirus in at least the past century. The importance of health…
OP-ED
How Long Should A Workout Last?
Back in the golden era of bodybuilding, most of the champions of the day trained for two hours per workout, six days a week. Terms like…
Legs
15 Ways To Turn Your Calves Into Full Grown Bulls
Some people love showing off their calves, and then there are some who wish shorts disappear off the face of the earth. The sad part about…
CrossFit
Functional Strength Training: What It Is, How to Do It, and How It Will Radicalize Your Workouts
When you think of fitness, what does that look like to you? Do you picture yourself with rippling muscles ideal for a catalog or magazine? Do…
Training
Bro Split: The Ultimate Guide
While a lot of what we know about effective training is based on bonafide scientific research, just as much comes from what is commonly called bro-science.…
Training
The Best 3-Day Workout Split Routine
If you want to get the best results from your gym time, you need to follow a well-designed training program. It doesn’t matter if you are…
Training
Psychological Tricks for Getting More Reps Per Set
I’ve been a competitive athlete for all of my adult life and most of my teenage years too. That adds up to almost 40 years of…
Chest
Old School Exercises to Build Your Chest
For better or for worse, training your chest has, for many individuals, become synonymous with the bench press. Remarkably given the popularity of chest day for…
Training
Time Under Tension – Does it Matter or Just a Myth?
When it comes to building muscle and strength, variety is essential. If you always do the same workout using the same exercises, sets, reps, and weights,…
Training
The Best 5-Day Dumbbell Workout Split
It’s quite an insult to call someone a dumbbell. It implies that you’re about as intelligent as a lump of metal. However, dumbbells are anything but…
Training
How Many Exercises Should You Do Per Muscle Group?
Strength training is a very diverse activity. Not only are there several different strength sports, but people also work out for a range of different reasons.…
Back
Home Workouts: The 10 Best Barbell Back Exercises + Workout
If you train in a commercial or well-equipped garage gym, you probably have access to dozens if not hundreds of different exercises that you can use…
Core
Washboard Abs: 6 Proven Exercises and Workout for a Stellar Six-Pack
Washboards are a thing of the past; your great grandparents might have used one to wash their clothes, and they were used as musical instruments too.…
Exercise Guides
Master the Overhead Press: Build Shoulders and Upper Body Strength
Before the bench press was invented, if you wanted to develop or demonstrate your upper body strength, you did overhead presses. The overhead press, also known…
Body Mechanics
How Often Should You Work Out?
Training frequency is a very personal matter. Some people are quite happy and get good results from just three workouts per week, while others prefer six…
Legs
Front Squat Hypertrophy Guide – Build Bigger Legs
There is a good reason that old-school bodybuilders used to call squats “The King of Exercises”. If you want to get strong, build bigger legs, get…