Large, powerful traps are often a sign of a serious lifter. The traps, which span across the upper backs of most powerlifters, weightlifters, fitness athletes, and bodybuilders play a crucial role in deadlifting,
When it comes to building a serious set of arms (and a monstrous back), few exercises can offer the strength and muscle hypertrophy stimulus as the chin up. The chin up, in addition
If you know a little bit about me, you might remember that I earned my PhD studying the history of strength, but that my own research focused specifically on the early 1900s —
Arm training, specifically bicep exercises, can be a valuable accessory exercise for strength, power, and fitness athletes. Movements such as hammer curls, barbell curls, and chin ups can offer strength coaches/athletes increases in
Chest training is key for strength athletes (powerlifters, strongman athletes, sports athletes, and even weightlifters) for competitive movements and overall upper body strength potentials. Exercises like the bench press, dumbbell press, dip, and
A few weeks ago, we had the 2018 IPF World Champion Taylor Atwood in office to walk us through the bench press’s form. If there’s one thing that Atwood knows for certain, it’s
The decline bench press is a pressing exercise that may or may not find its way into your training routine. Bench press variations like the flat and incline bench press both are highly
The dumbbell snatch is a total body exercise that can be beneficial for increasing total body power, strength, and metabolic endurance. Many strength and fitness athletes will find that training the dumbbell snatch
Coaches and athletes can integrate glute training within warm-up segments, glute activation series, and hypertrophy/accessory blocks to increase muscular hypertrophy and glute engagement. The benefits of powerful, engaged glutes have a strong correlation
Movements like the kettlebell windmill offer coaches and athletes both stability and mobility training benefits across most joints and tissues of the human body. Strength, power, and finess athletes can utilize the kettlebell
