Arms
Master the Band Assisted Pull-Up: Strengthen Your Back & Arms
Whether it’s a first backflip, slam-dunk, or the high coming off your first full pull-up, few things can compare to the limitless confidence gained from such…
Exercise Guides
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Core
Planche Push-Ups: Master Your Strength, Build Powerful Muscles
Many exercisers skip doing push-ups as they feel they are too easy and do little to nothing for their strength or muscle gains. Most advanced lifters…
Exercise Guides
Unlock Flexibility: Hands To Feet Pose for Total Body Strength
“Can you touch your toes?”… an age old question and popular benchmark for assessing basic flexibility. Instantly exposing tight hamstrings, and poor mobility from the waist…
Exercise Guides
Adductor Stretch: Target Your Inner Thigh Muscles Effectively
The adductor stretch is a simple floor exercise for the inner thigh muscles that draw the legs toward the body’s midline. While a lengthening activity rather…
Exercise Guides
Crescent Moon Anjaneyasana: Strengthen Your Hips and Core
A statuesque-like pose resembling that of Warrior I (But without the mythical backstory and a little more detailed), crescent moon pose is a half-kneeling, low lunge…
Exercise Guides
Unlocking Strength: Revolved Side Angle Pose Benefits & Tips
Revolved side angle pose parivrtta parsvakonasana displays a multiple-phase technique that combines a static lunge, core strength, hip hinge, and upper body rotation. Nearly a fully…
Chest
Standing Cable Chest Fly: Target Your Chest & Arms Effectively
A broad and muscular chest has been the symbol of masculinity since time immemorial. Chances are, they come up with the term ‘masculine’ to refer to…
Exercise Guides
Warrior 2 Pose: Strengthen Your Lower Body and Core Today!
The Warrior Pose series is based on a fascinating tale about a fierce warrior, Virabhandra, sent to get revenge for an act of betrayal. The first…
Exercise Guides
Strengthen Your Body with Warrior 1 Pose: Key Benefits & Tips
Warrior 1 Pose – Virabhadrasana I and its variations are a set of standing lunge asanas symbolic of the legendary mythical warrior, Virabhandra. In yoga, the depiction…
Exercise Guides
Strengthen Your Hips: Effective Hip Abduction Exercises
Ask most people why they’re doing machine hip abductions, and they’ll probably tell you they’re trying to work off their “saddlebags.” This is a popular term…
Exercise Guides
Unlock Flexibility: Master Forward Bend Uttanasana for All Muscles
Picking up where gym class left off, or where it left you hanging rather, and yes pun intended, the standing forward bend uttanasana (meaning intense or…
Exercise Guides
Triangle Pose: Strengthen Your Core and Legs with Trikonasana
While the names of some yoga poses are not as straightforward, triangle pose trikonasana is quite obvious. In the final stage of this closed hip posture,…
Arms
Master the Lat Pulldown: Target Your Back and Biceps Effectively
If you want to build a stronger, more muscular upper back, lat pulldowns will help. Sure, pull-ups and chin-ups are more hardcore and “functional,” but lat…
Exercise Guides
Hero Pose Virasana: Unlock Flexibility for Stronger Legs
The hero pose virasana is a basic sitting variation, suitable lotus pose alternative for meditative practice, and heck of a quad stretch, especially when you recline…
Chest
Standing Cable Fly: Target Your Chest and Shoulders Effectively
Common gym lore says that if you want to build a massive, sculpted chest, the bench press is the way to go. This is why so…
Exercise Guides
Lotus Pose (Padmasana): Unlock Flexibility for Your Hips & Core
Easily the most iconic meditation posture, recognized in film and TV, and part of rich ancient Asian tradition, just about everyone has tried some form or…
Core
Unlock Flexibility: Upavistha Konasana for Stronger Legs & Core
This one’s a throwback to gym class days when you were instructed to sit, spread your legs wide, and reach as far forward as you could…
Exercise Guides
Unlock Flexibility: Prasarita Padottanasana for Strong Legs
One of yoga’s many fold poses, the sangskrit name prasarita padottanasana describes five elements of the wide legged forward bend: “Prasarita” – Spread “Pada” – Foot/leg…
Core
Toes to Bar: Mastering the Ultimate Core & Hip Flexor Workout
A shredded midsection is the symbol of peak fitness. Although many people aspire to develop a well-defined six-pack that could rival the sculpted Greek statues, it…