Looking to bolster your home gym with strength-training essentials? The best weight plates can be great for sprucing up your sets with a bit of added zest. That said, you’ll want plates that vibe with your ... Continue Reading
How to Do the Farmer’s Carry: Benefits and Expert Tips
The farmer’s carry is fairly straightforward: you’ll walk while holding dumbbells or other weights in your hands. The increased popularity of the sport of strongman — which regularly features the farmer’s ... Continue Reading
9 Fun Facts About the 2022 USA Weightlifting Nationals and Its Predecessors
Weightlifting is historic. Although the sport has always enjoyed significant limelight and prestige internationally, American weightlifting is having something of a moment in the States in recent ... Continue Reading
Perfect the Push Press for Muscle and Strength Gains
If you want to start lifting heavier weights overhead, look no further than the push press. The push press is a variation of the overhead press that brings the lower body to the party to help take your ... Continue Reading
FST-7 Training Explained — Can You “Shock and Awe” Your Muscles Into New Growth?
Every bodybuilder has their own claim to muscle fame. From Arnold Schwarzenegger's famous addiction to the pump, to Dorian Yates's high-intensity, one-set-to-failure approach, it has been proven time and ... Continue Reading
Every Winner of the Fitness Olympia
There are six women's divisions in the IFBB Pro League. It’s hard to imagine an Olympia weekend without all the athletes in those divisions taking the stage and presenting their best physiques. However, it ... Continue Reading
Build a Complete Workout With These 9 Best Accessory Exercises for Weightlifting
There’s more to the story in weightlifting than just the snatch and clean & jerk. If you want to get better at the lifts, practicing them over and over again won’t cut it on its own. You should still ... Continue Reading
How to Return to Strength Training After an Extended Break
For a weathered gym rat, almost nothing is worse than being unable to access your barbells and weight plates. Not that you need a fully-equipped gym to work out — but sometimes, life just doesn’t ... Continue Reading
The Best CrossFit Workouts for Beginners to Build Strength and Mental Toughness
Walking into a CrossFit gym for the first time can feel intimidating. The barbells are loaded up up, the music is loud, and you’re wondering what you got yourself into. The first thing to remember is that ... Continue Reading
Barefoot Strength Training — Can Lifting Without Shoes Help You Make More Gains?
You've probably seen it in your gym at least once — someone training in a pair of socks or, more shockingly still, entirely barefoot, flesh-to-floor style. It certainly looks odd at a glance, but it does ... Continue Reading
Onnit Kettlebell Review — 2025 Update
Onnit makes some of the most popular kettlebells on the market, and their powder coated bells could offer the durability you need at a low cost. Because kettlebell ... Continue Reading
Best Citrulline Supplements for Pre-Workout, Vegans, and More
Citrulline is a popular pre-workout supplement that may increase blood flow, with some studies suggesting that it might help with power output and endurance during workouts. This non-essential amino acid ... Continue Reading
New Jersey Obesity Percentages From 2012 to 2022
When one thinks of New Jersey, one might think of the hoagies loaded with salted meats and sharp cheeses, bounties of salt water taffy, and thin-crust pizza. Perhaps they might contemplate why both of New ... Continue Reading
Terrence Ruffin Nears 200 Pounds In His Off-Season
The 2022 Classic Physique Arnold Classic champion Terrence Ruffin continues refining his physique to challenge three-time Classic Physique Olympia champion Chris Bumstead. On June 22, 2022, Ruffin took to ... Continue Reading
Learn Hunter Labrada’s 3 Key Factors For Exercise Selection
There are a lot of different movements that one can do in the gym. Countless variations of exercises fall into the categories of a squat, a lunge, pushing, pulling, a hip hinge, a carry, or a twist. Even ... Continue Reading
Perfect the Pallof Press for More Core Strength and Stability
What exercises come to mind when you picture a chiseled six-pack? Crunches, sit-ups, maybe a plank? What about the Pallof press? Probably not, because the move sounds more like a piece of construction ... Continue Reading
Can You Eat Intuitively as a Bodybuilder?
When people think of nutrition for bodybuilders, they often imagine cardboard-tasting protein shakes, calorie counting, and a whole lot of plain chicken and rice. But restricting what you eat (and when) ... Continue Reading
Time Under Tension is the Key to Ryan Terry’s Leg Day
IFBB Pro League competitor Ryan Terry has adorned countless international bodybuilding magazine covers, such as Muscle Insider and Muscle & Fitness, and taken first place in competitions such as Mr. ... Continue Reading
Check Out Robert Oberst’s New Strongman Diet
The "American Monster" is back in full swing to strongman training. Robert Oberst has recovered from his shoulder injury and is prepping for his return to the competitive strongman stage as the leader of ... Continue Reading
Want to Move Better? Try These 5 Mobility Drills for Weightlifting
Weightlifting is about how you move. The better your movement, the more you can lift. The two main lifts (the snatch and the clean & jerk) are not just your average gym exercises. You have to use your ... Continue Reading
3 Big Benefits of the Low-Bar Back Squat
[Read More: The Best Quad Exercises and Quad Workouts for Muscle Gain] No one is born knowing how to squat with a loaded barbell draped across their back. Everyone starts somewhere, and the ... Continue Reading
Kelvin de Ruiter Wins 2022 Strongman Champions League Holland
On June 18, 2022, 14 strongmen from across the globe converged on Doetinchem, Netherlands to compete in six events at the 2022 Strongman Champions League (SCL) Holland contest. The single-day contest ... Continue Reading
From Quad Racing to The CrossFit Games (w/ Emma McQuaid)
Today I’m talking to multi-time CrossFit Games athlete Emma McQuaid, who just qualified for the 2022 CrossFit Games. The Irish athlete has a length background in sports but didn’t find CrossFit until she ... Continue Reading
2022 Puerto Rico Pro Results — Hassan Mostafa Victorious
It’s not often that two pro bodybuilding shows take place on the same weekend, but that was the case on June 17-19, 2022. Earlier in the weekend, Mohammad Alnsoor has crowned the 2022 Monsterzym Pro winner ... Continue Reading