If you’ve ever entered the weight room ready to squat only to find the racks were taken, you know the pain of a disrupted workout routine. If you’re strapped for time in the gym, the last thing you need is ... Continue Reading
9 Dumbbell Flye Variations for a Bigger Chest and Stronger Presses
Your ultimate training goal might be boosting your bench press PR. And while that’s a worthy goal, especially for powerlifters, your road to a fresh one-rep max might be made a lot easier by one move — the ... Continue Reading
Tactical and Functional — How to Train Like Law Enforcement
A cultural trope exists that police officers are often out-of-shape doughnut-loving public servants. The kinds of characters you may have chuckled at in movies like RoboCop 3 and Die Hard, or animated ... Continue Reading
10 Science-Backed Benefits of Walking for Strength Athletes
There’s an eternal chasm between the athletes who think that the only way to do cardio is high-intensity interval training and those who think jogging or cycling is the way to go. However, as with so many ... Continue Reading
The Best Exercise Tips For Your Body Type
Some people are built to train. If you’ve ever known someone who benched two plates in their first few months of lifting weights, it may have left you scratching your head (or seething with jealousy). Do ... Continue Reading
Back Off Sets: What They Are and How to Use Them
Strength and power training is incredibly satisfying. Pulling and pushing heavy singles is a hard sensation to beat. The unfortunate part of heavy lifting is that it isn’t necessarily the most efficient — ... Continue Reading
7 Benefits of Foam Rolling to Help You Get Lean, Strong, and Limber
Foam rolling is a self-myofascial release technique that is increasingly used by athletes, physical therapists, and gymgoers alike. It is meant to mimic and provide some of the same benefits of a deep ... Continue Reading
7 Benefits of the Deficit Deadlift All Lifters Should Be Aware Of
You’ve probably heard of — and practice — the king of exercises, the deadlift. But even if you love improving your pulling strength, you may not be as versed in the deadlift’s seemingly endless variations. ... Continue Reading
Build Bigger, Stronger Arms with These 9 Triceps Extension Variations
Wanting to build big and strong triceps isn’t just about aesthetics. The triceps are a powerful contributor to compound pressing movements like the barbell bench press and the overhead press. Because ... Continue Reading
15 Benefits of the Snatch for All Strength Athletes
There are full-body exercises, and then there’s the snatch. It’s a phenomenally difficult exercise that can require years to properly master. The journey to learn and refine the move is worth it. When ... Continue Reading
The Beginner’s Guide to the Gym
Whether you have a personal resolution to get fit in the new year or have just decided to take your first steps towards bettering your health, you need a good roadmap. Pursuing a better bill of health ... Continue Reading
8 Strategies to Help You Break Through Strength Training Plateaus
Progress in the gym is much like the rest of life. It’s never in a straight line. There are times when you’re adding weight, adding reps, and making rapid gains. Then, the time comes when you and the ... Continue Reading
The Resolutioner’s Guide to Gym Etiquette
Whether you’re a rank beginner or are comfortable with a barbell in your hands, public gyms can be intimidating places. There are plenty of rules — both spoken and unspoken — that govern good behavior in ... Continue Reading
How to Use Forced Reps to Level Up Your Training
Even if you’ve never used the term, you’re probably familiar with forced reps. These attempts to move beyond strict form to build more muscle can have a bad reputation, but they’re not unequivocally ... Continue Reading
10 Pallof Press Variations for All Your Core-Training Needs
Maybe you’re under the weight of a loaded barbell, and you know you have to brace your core. To do so, you need to practice proper bracing mechanics without all that weight on your back. Or maybe you want ... Continue Reading
10 Competitors Who Boast the Best Shoulders in Bodybuilding
In bodybuilding, every muscle matters. But the first grouping of muscle fibers that catch most folks' eyes is the shoulders. Also known as the deltoids, these muscles represent the widest point of a ... Continue Reading
The 7 Fundamental Movement Patterns Your Program Needs
When you enter a gym, the variety of exercises people are performing can seem endlessly varied — not to mention overwhelming. But if you observe closely, there are seven fundamental movement patterns that ... Continue Reading
The Big Glossary of Gym Slang
If you’re new to working out, it’s easy to feel like a stranger in a strange land when you enter the weight room. The gym floor is decorated with all manner of machinery, oddly-shaped bars, and ... Continue Reading
Six Superb Benefits of the Superman
Although the superman exercise will not enable you to jump over tall buildings in a single bound nor grant you the ability to soar through the air at the speed of light, it can give you the power to better ... Continue Reading
Seven Compelling Benefits of the Push Press
The push press is an exercise often used in Olympic weightlifting and CrossFit due to its potential to produce a powerful upper and lower body. Similar to the strict press, the push press requires you to ... Continue Reading
Is Your Front Rack Lacking? Try These 5 Fixes (Plus Some Technique Tips)
The front rack position in Olympic lifting isn’t intuitive or natural the first time you try it. In fact, it is common for many athletes to have some limitations to their mobility when it comes to racking ... Continue Reading
How to Find Your Ideal Exercise Frequency
Exercise frequency has been and will continue to be an oft-debated topic in strength sports. How often you work out or how many times a week you hit your legs — AKA, your exercise frequency — is a very ... Continue Reading
Ab Training 101 — Everything You Should Know About Training Your Core
Many of the conversations surrounding the abs can be oddly polarizing. Some prefer to think of them as wasted training time, others like to overemphasize their core with near obsessive volume. The truth, ... Continue Reading
Deadlifting Every Day Can Take Your Strength to New Heights
One of the best ways to rapidly increase your strength or skill is to practice an exercise more frequently. Strength training performance, especially in the deadlift, is often a product of competing ... Continue Reading