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The 61st Joe Weider’s Olympia Fitness and Performance Weekend has taken over Las Vegas, Nevada, from Oct. 9–12. Prejudging rounds for the event will occur inside…
The 2025 CrossFit Games are taking place on August 1-3 in Albany, New York. This year promises significant changes compared to previous seasons, with everything designed…
The 2025 World’s Strongest Man competition is taking place on May 15-18 in Sacramento, California. Being the biggest Strongman competition of the season, the community is…
The kneeling cable crunch is a phenomenal exercise that will isolate your abdominal muscles and help you build incredible core strength. The core is responsible for…
Old-time strongmen Arthur Saxon and Sig Klein heavily used the bent press. Dave Whitley’s book, Taming the Bent Press (2014), offers a comprehensive bent press guide…
Dorian Yates’s journey is a testament to the athlete’s duality: the relentless pursuit of victory and personal growth within the sport and the importance of life…
Go to a gym, approach five guys, and ask them about the two muscles they want to grow most — chances are, biceps will be on…
Although unilateral training is not inherently better than bilateral training, many movement patterns in sports and everyday life are unilateral. A meta-analysis published in Frontiers in…
Are you experiencing low back pain while doing barbell back squats and are unsure if you should perform squats at all? Here is something interesting to…
The continual decline in average forearm and grip strength with age is largely a result of insufficient physical activity and sedentary jobs. This is a significant…
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…
The rope tricep extension is one of the best isolation exercises for medial and lateral tricep hypertrophy. Based on my experience working with numerous clients, I…
The reverse hack squat is an excellent back squat alternative to bias the quads and glutes. I regularly implement reverse hack squats in my lower body…
If you have poor ankle mobility, more precisely poor dorsiflexion, slant board squats can be a game-changer. I implement slant board squats in my training when…
Cyclist squats are among the best squat variations for targeting the quads because of their narrow stance. A study titled “Effects of Stance Width and Barbell…
Although quarter squats generally get a bad rap in the strength training community, I frequently incorporate quarter squats in my lower body workout routine and with…
I regularly implement pop squats into my warm-ups and light plyometric sessions. They are effective at improving the health and reactiveness of the joints while also…
Whether you are into bodybuilding, CrossFit, or calisthenics, parallel bar dips are a must-have in your exercise arsenal. As a personal trainer, I prioritize having my…
If you’ve suffered countless ankle sprains like me and struggle to fully recover the lost range of motion (ROM), then you must try skater squats. A…
