If you’ve been trying to develop a strong and muscular upper back, finally getting your wings is a thing of beauty. Barbell rows, chin-ups, and lat pulldowns are great exercises to craft a thicker, wider ... Continue Reading
12 of the Most Underrated Bodybuilders of All Time
Big names define bodybuilding. Physique champions who excel in the sport tend to remain in those positions for years — several Mr. (and Ms.) Olympia champions have established their own multi-year reigns, ... Continue Reading
The 10 Best Sit-Up Alternatives for a Stronger, More Powerful Core
From military physical fitness assessments in the 1940s to your sixth-grade gym class, sit-ups have been a mainstay part of workout culture for quite some time. (1) They're a timeless classic, and for good ... Continue Reading
Five Common Mistakes to Avoid at Your First Weightlifting Meet
If you’re new to weightlifting and enjoy it, that’s a good sign. As you train for a while, it gets tempting to push to your limits and find out what your best snatch and clean & jerk really are. When ... Continue Reading
How to (Properly) Combine Powerlifting and Bodybuilding Training
Conventional wisdom suggests that your pathway to success in the gym is narrow and linear. If you want to get strong, you have to train for strength. Want to build muscle? Hypertrophy has to be your only ... Continue Reading
The 10 Best Deadlift Variations for Beginners to Improve Your Pulls Today
The deadlift is a fantastic exercise that improves total body strength, hypertrophy, and improves athletic capacity. Beginners and experienced lifters alike often dream of pulling hefty weight from the ... Continue Reading
How Dead-Stop Training Improves Strength, Power, and Lifting Technique
In the struggle against gravity, dead-stop training will bring your sets to a grinding halt. That may sound counter-productive to your goals, but pausing between reps (popular in movements like the Pendlay ... Continue Reading
How to Train Your Strength Sport in a Commercial Gym
Everyone comes to strength sports in their own way. Whether you saw a video online of a weightlifter snatching 400 pounds in the blink of an eye, or witnessed firsthand a powerlifter sinking a back squat ... Continue Reading
14 Best Box Jump Variations to Bring Your Leg Power to New Heights
Increasing your lower body power has huge carryover into everything from Olympic lifts and squats to success on the football field or basketball court. And while training for your favorite strength sport ... Continue Reading
7 Hamstring Curl Variations to Spice Up Your Next Leg Day
It’s leg day, and you’ve decided to give the backs of your legs the love they deserve. Unfortunately for your hammies, everyone else in the gym has had the same idea. You have a training schedule to stick ... Continue Reading
These Are 10 of the Strongest Wrestlers of All Time
Wrestling has a long lineage of relying on famous celebrities to boost viewership numbers. Boxers Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather both appeared in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Dennis Rodman and ... Continue Reading
7 Benefits of the L-Sit Pull-Up to Pull Your Core Training Up a Notch
You’ve labored for years to be able to do a solid strict pull-up, and — finally — one of the toughest bodyweight moves is coming easily to you. You’re ready to up the ante, but you’re not quite sure how. ... Continue Reading
The Only Full-Body Warm-Up You Need to Lift Your Best Weights
You want to lift heavier. Or you want to build more muscle mass. You might even just want to improve your endurance so that flight of stairs heading up to your apartment isn’t quite as devastating. ... Continue Reading
3 Things to Consider Before Building a Home Gym (Brought to You by Force USA)
There are many reasons to want a home gym: They never close, they're private, they're cost-efficient (in the long run), and you can customize it to fit your specific training needs. But before you commit — ... Continue Reading
How to Build Your Own CrossFit WOD, Regardless of Your Experience Level
In the wide world of CrossFit, it’s easy to get lost in the excellence on display at elite levels. Legends like Tia-Clair Toomey and Mat Fraser can inspire you to work harder. But if you're not quite on ... Continue Reading
How Strength Athletes Can Add Yoga to Their Program
You’re a strength athlete, but you secretly aspire to be able to maneuver your own body weight the way your yoga-loving friends do. You may be at home under a barbell but doubt that you, too, can one day ... Continue Reading
How to Find the Right Weightlifting Shoe Heel Height
When a pair of weightlifting shoes hit the platform in the gym, you take notice. The signature call of a strength athlete who dons lifting shoes for their workout is the thunderous crack of the soles ... Continue Reading
Optimize Your Overhead Pressing by Avoiding These 5 Common Mistakes
The overhead press sometimes flies under the radar and its reputation is eclipsed by lifts like the bench press. However, a big overhead press can turn as many (if not more) heads in your gym. Your ... Continue Reading
10 Benefits of Strength Training for Bodybuilders That You Need to Know Before Your Next Workout
When a bodybuilder steps out under the lights of the competition stage, they aren’t judged on how much they can squat or deadlift. In fact, what they can do with their physique isn’t relevant in any ... Continue Reading
Do Knee Sleeves Actually Boost Your Squat?
Whether you’re a competitive athlete or a recreational lifter looking for a boost in your squat, you’ve probably seen someone roll up to the squat rack with compression sleeves on their knees. For most, ... Continue Reading
The Weightlifter’s Guide to Hypertrophy — How Bigger Muscles Make Better Lifts
Weightlifting is a performance sport, but it’s not performative. The charm of Olympic lifting is in its simplicity — either you can lift the barbell over your head, or you can’t. How you look while you set ... Continue Reading
14 Benefits of Owning a Home Gym to Convince You to Build Your Iron Oasis
It’s okay, you can say it: going to the gym can be a nightmare. Between the drive and navigating the locker room to just not having the social energy to see another human being, the obstacles can pile up. ... Continue Reading
5 Common Strength Training Mistakes and How to Fix Them
Something feels off in your program. You’re not exactly plateauing, but you’re not leaving the gym feeling good, either. Sometimes that nagging sense of something being not quite right about your gains has ... Continue Reading
Want to Build a Complete Physique? Don’t Forget to Train These Overlooked Muscles
What do you notice when you look at a bodybuilder on stage? Most people are drawn to the big, glamorous muscles. A pair of pecs you could balance a beer can on. Legs that absolutely do not, under ... Continue Reading