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Whatever your fitness goal, strength training should be part of your workout routine. Lifting weights provides so many important benefits that it really should be compulsory.…
I’m a veteran personal trainer and it’s my job to help my clients achieve their health, fitness, and body composition goals. Invariably, this means writing and…
The Assisted Prone Lying Quads Stretch is a great exercise for enhancing quadriceps flexibility and alleviating tension in the front thigh muscles. This stretch is beneficial…
Working out, especially strength training, is excellent for your overall health. Regular exercise makes you stronger, builds muscle, reduces injury risk, burns fat, helps maintain optimal…
Did you know that stretching is not only for post-workout recovery? It can also be used to prepare your mind and body for the best night’s…
Stretching is arguably the most underrepresented component of fitness. In my experience as a 30-year veteran personal trainer, most exercisers are more than happy to put…
Do you take a ‘go-hard or go-home’ approach to stretching and feel that since you never stretch, you must push your muscles to their limit when…
One not-so-pleasant day, you get out of bed and experience hip pain. Many can relate to this because hip pain is one of the most common…
Do you want to have the best-run workout possible while also preventing injury? Then, you should incorporate sound stretching and mobility into your pre-run routine. As…
Lower back pain is one of the most common reasons lifters struggle to train long-term and continue to progress in the gym. As a Performance Physical…
As hard as it may be to imagine your sexy toosh as anything more than an eye magnet, the muscles in your rear end are vitally…
Stretching is an essential component of maintaining healthy, functional muscles. Last time, we covered how to stretch biceps for maximum development and function. But this time…
A quick internet search for “best back stretches” shows how biased we are towards issues more specifically related to the lower back, and justifiably so as…
After searching high and low, comparing techniques, and spending hours learning hip anatomy, it’s clear that most experts (I’ll toss my pedigree in there as well)…
Standing hip abduction is one of the most effective but underutilized exercises for improving hip strength and posture. In fact, a meta-analysis titled “Hip abductor strengthening…
Leg pain is a common problem that many of us experience at some point in our lives. It can range from mild to severe, annoying to…
Whether you like it or not, stretching is part of the body’s necessary maintenance routine. It alleviates stress, keeps our muscles and surrounding tissues healthy, prevents…
When it comes to core and lower back training, most people focus on the well-known muscles, like the rectus abdominis, obliques, transverse abdominis, and erector spinae.…
A few things can disrupt your workouts, like shoulder pain. Painful shoulders can stop you from training your upper body and even interfere with your lower…
