Body Mechanics
7 Best Quadriceps Stretches for Healthier, More Mobile Knees
Whatever your training goal, you need to train your legs. Bodybuilders look RIDICULOUS when their upper bodies are more developed than their legs. Athletes from all…
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Body Mechanics
8 Best Lower Back Stretches for A More Mobile Spine
Your spine is an amazing piece of biomechanical engineering. It consists of 33 individual bones, 25 intervertebral disks, numerous ligaments, and about 40 muscles, some of…
Body Mechanics
The 7 Best Hamstring Stretches for a Healthier Lower Back and Knees
Modern technology is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it makes many aspects of life much easier and far less labor intensive. For example, mechanized…
Body Mechanics
How to Warm Up for Strength Training
An old athletics coach of mine once told me, “if you don’t have time to warm up, you don’t have time to work out,” and this…
Mobility & Stretching
Ballistic Stretching: Definition, Benefits, Drawbacks, and Should You Do it?
Cats, dogs, and many other animals are habitual stretchers. In fact, some human stretches are named after animals – such as the cat stretch and downward…
Mobility & Stretching
8 Best Triceps Stretches for Healthy Elbows
Of all the muscles in the human body that exercisers need to stretch, the triceps are not usually very high on the list. After all, if…
Mobility & Stretching
The 10 Best Lat Stretches for Healthier, More Mobile Shoulders
When it comes to the lats, most lifters already know how to train them for size and strength. If you want a broader, more powerful upper…
Mobility & Stretching
Calf Training: 8 Best Soleus Exercises and Stretches
When it comes to calf training, most people focus their attention on the gastrocnemius, the most prominent muscle in the lower legs. However, there is another…
Stretches
The 11 Best Chest Stretches for More Flexible Pecs and Healthier Shoulders
Google “chest exercises”, and you’ll be bombarded with thousands of results, most of which will be variations of the bench press, push-ups, and dips. Of course,…
Stretches
Quads Training: The 11 Best Vastus Lateralis Exercises and Stretches
Friends don’t let friends skip leg day, or so the popular meme says. Yet many people neglect their leg workouts and instead focus on muscles that…
CrossFit
Tia-Clair Toomey Shares Her Favorite Stretches To Avoid Injury
As the five time Fittest Woman on Earth, Tia-Clair Toomey knows how important it is to stretch before a workout. She recently shared some of her…
Body Mechanics
Hip Flexors: The Best Psoas Exercises and Stretches
Your body is amazing! It’s made up of 206 bones, over 600 named muscles, dozens of organs and systems, and literally miles of nerves and blood…