Chest
Wide Grip Bench Press: A Kickass Chest Workout
When it comes to working out your chest muscles, nothing beats the bench press. With a bench press, the weight is loaded directly above your chest,…
Exercises
Exercise comparisons and how-to guides: which movement to choose and how to do it well.
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Training
Safety Bar Squats: Everything You Need to Know About This Amazing Leg Workout
Squats are, without a doubt, the most commonly performed lower body exercise. They also happen to be among the best movements to shred your leg muscles.…
OP-ED
How Many Exercises Per Workout Should I Do?
Ask a bodybuilder how many exercises you should do per workout, and they’ll probably tell you it’s somewhere between 4-8. In contrast, an Olympic lifter or…
Training
Lose It: Exercises to Get Rid of Back Fat
Contrary to what many people believe, there is no such thing as exercises for back fat. Similarly, there are no exercises that specifically target belly fat…
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…
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…
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
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…
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
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…
Back
11 Best Kettlebell Back Exercises and Workouts
Everyone loves a good chest or abs workout. After all, these are the muscles you can see in the mirror. However, the muscles on the back…
Circuit Training
What is Circuit Training? The Ultimate Guide to Get Lean
Getting in shape can be very time-consuming. You need to dedicate at least a few hours per week to strength training and also need to find…
Arms
The 12 Best Cable Crossover Alternatives
Monday might be National Bench Press Day, but as most bodybuilders know, you need more than compound exercises to build the ultimate chest. Isolation exercises are…