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How to Get in Shape When You’re Constantly Traveling or Shifting Schedules (Brought to You by Future)

Getting in shape is hard enough without time constraints — busy schedules, jobs that require a lot of travel, or who don't know what their schedule will look like ahead of time. If that sounds like your ... Continue Reading

Burn 100 Calories

10 Different Ways to Burn 100 Calories Quickly

With the constantly rising popularity of smart watches, it seems like everyone is looking for the next best way to burn calories and stay in shape. However, doing the same thing over and over again because ... Continue Reading

Louie Simmons Achievements

A Look Back at Louie Simmons’ Greatest Achievements and Contributions to Strength Training & Sport 

The strength sports community suffered a great loss on March 24, 2022, when legendary powerlifter and coach Louie Simmons passed away at the age of 74. Few people, living or dead, could claim to hold a ... Continue Reading

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Fight Right — How to Use Strength Training for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Brazilian jiu-jitsu, or BJJ, is having a moment. The grappling-based martial art — which took shape in the 1920s — gained some popularity in the early-90s when BJJ pioneer Royce Gracie dismantled a series ... Continue Reading

The Best Deadlift Warm-Up — How to Prepare for Strong Pulls

The Best Deadlift Warm-Up — How to Prepare for Strong Pulls

If your goal is to build total-body strength, the deadlift deserves to be your bread and butter. A deadlift is a pull from the floor to the hip, and, perhaps most importantly, allows you to work with ... Continue Reading

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What to Know About Working Out on Your Period

Even if you love lifting, training consistently can be a challenge. Fluctuations in sleep levels, work stress, relationship dynamics, your mood, your mental health — everything affects your workouts and ... Continue Reading

Cool-Downs

What is a Cool-Down, and Do You Even Need One?

You only have an hour to dedicate to your gym time today, and you want to spend the bulk of it actually working out. Although you might not want to, you know that warming up properly is essential for ... Continue Reading

The Best (and Worst) Bodybuilding Exercises to Cheat Your Form On

The Best (and Worst) Bodybuilding Exercises to Cheat Your Form On

The form police are a diligent bunch. From the deepest reaches of social media comment sections to unwelcome solicitations in the weight room, you can always find someone willing to “help” you with your ... Continue Reading

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So…What is a Deload Week and Do You Need One?

You dream about lifting heavy and being on the platform is the best part of your day. All your friends know that your gym time is sacred, and you can barely take a proper rest day without itching for iron. ... Continue Reading

How to Safely Miss Lifts

How to (Safely) Miss Your Lifts as a Strength Athlete

You’ve probably heard more than enough quips and quotes about the necessity of failure in the pursuit of your passion. When you’re learning to ride a bike, you’re bound to fall down once or twice, but all ... Continue Reading

Best Core Exercises for Weightlifters

Core Training for Weightlifters — How to Become Strong and Stable With the Barbell

Core training is a hot topic across the different disciplines of fitness. Your core (or trunk) is the central pillar of your movement. While you may know the core by its anatomical components, you should ... Continue Reading

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Pioneers of Power — These Are Some of the Strongest Women in History

Few questions in the annals of strength history are more difficult to answer than, "who is the strongest woman ever?" In some ways, such a prompt raises more questions of its own. Should you account for ... Continue Reading

What is AMRAP

What is AMRAP: How to Do it, Benefits, and AMRAP Workouts

You don’t have to be on the leaderboard of your local CrossFit box to integrate AMRAP workouts into your program. This increasingly popular training model — which stands for “as many rounds (or reps) as ... Continue Reading

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How to Start Working Out Again After Top Surgery

So you’ve had or are about to have top surgery. If one of the first things on your mind is when you can get back to the gym after top surgery, you probably know that the idea of waiting to be able to work ... Continue Reading

Beginner Gym Mistakes

Avoid These Beginner Lifting Mistakes to Save Time & Make More Progress

“Newbie gains” can unfortunately give a false sense of confidence in your first few years of training. Although you’re bound to make a great deal of progress no matter what, prolonging the length of time ... Continue Reading

How to Break Weightlifting Plateaus

Feeling Stuck in the Gym? Here’s How to Break Through Weightlifting Plateaus

Weightlifting makes you stronger, but that pathway isn't always linear. Eventually, you'll likely find yourself going longer and longer between new personal records or bigger totals. This is the ... Continue Reading

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7 Powerful Benefits of Plyometric Push-Ups to Help You Go Higher, Further, Faster

The push-up is one of those exercises that looks so simple, but even one rep can be difficult to perform properly. It’s a popular bodyweight exercise that recruits your chest, triceps, shoulders, and back. ... Continue Reading

Need to Fix Your Snatch? Start By Addressing These Common Errors

Behind all the grace and glamor of the two competitive movements in Olympic lifting lies hours upon hours of technical practice. The snatch is simple enough at a glance — you must lift the barbell from the ... Continue Reading

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What’s the Deal With Blood Flow Restriction Training?

Maybe you’ve seen that one bodybuilder in your gym always crushing workouts with a cuff on their arm while they do preacher curls. Or maybe you’ve heard the rumor that blood flow restriction (BFR) training ... Continue Reading

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7 Benefits of the Prowler Push Your Training Needs Today

In the gym, barbells and dumbbells are popular pieces of equipment for strength. On the other hand, treadmills and ellipticals are popular for cardio. But you don't have to get in your cardio and strength ... Continue Reading

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Workout Finishers Are the Intensity Booster You Didn’t Know You Needed

Some days, you’re exhausted when you finish your last working set and feel like you can’t push any harder. Then you catch your breath, and you find that you’re ready to go again. When you get that second ... Continue Reading

Clean & Jerk Mistakes

Are You Making these Five Clean & Jerk Mistakes? Here’s How to Fix Them

The movements in weightlifting are an art unto themselves. The clean & jerk involves catching the barbell at your shoulders, then extending it overhead. Total body power is used in the lift to maximize ... Continue Reading

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Meditation for Athletes — How to Start, Benefits, Types of Meditation

When strength athletes think about gains, the first thing that comes to mind tends to be picking up heavy weights and putting them back down. Lifters — perhaps especially bodybuilders — also tend to ... Continue Reading

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How to Improve Your Deadlift Lockout

Deadlifting is an unforgiving game of physics — a true battle of you versus gravity. Missing a rep can be absolutely devastating. Sometimes the bar seems cemented to the floor, or even worse, the universe ... Continue Reading

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