When it comes to building muscle, everyone focuses on the arms and chest. Probably no one gives a damn about their hands, but take a second to think about how misguided that is. Your hands allow you to ... Continue Reading
The Complete Guide to Kettlebell Training for Beginners
If you're new to the gym, you've probably seen them being pressed, pulled, or swung around. The kettlebell is an amazing tool for building muscle, burning fat, and developing cardiovascular fitness and ... Continue Reading
10 Lateral Raise Variations for Big & Broad Shoulders
Bigger shoulders have probably been on your physique wishlist since you picked up your first dumbbell in high school. Broad shoulders not only help you look strong, but a stronger pair of delts can help to ... Continue Reading
Four Big Benefits of the Toes to Bar
Have you ever watched the CrossFit Games and wondered how athletes like Tia-Clair Toomey not only achieve their six-packs but also the abdominal strength that comes with it? A part of it is due to eating ... Continue Reading
How to Deadlift 500 Pounds (and More)
The deadlift is one of the most empowering movements you can do with a barbell. Some of the most inspiring feats of strength ever performed involve a picture-perfect pull from the floor. If you have a ... Continue Reading
These Researchers Reveal the Right Way to Train for More Muscle Mass
When it comes to gaining muscle, everything your local gym bro told you is right. Ok, that's not entirely true, but a position paper from the International Universities Strength and Conditioning ... Continue Reading
Single Vs. Multi-Joint Exercises — What They Are and When to Use Each
When you think of working out, you probably think primarily of your muscles. That makes a lot of sense — you can’t, after all, lift without your connective tissues. But your joints also play a huge role in ... Continue Reading
Muscle Atrophy Explained — How to Bounce Back From Time Off
The worst nightmare of any lifter — an injury, illness, or ill-timed vacation that sidelines you from your training. If you’ve ever taken a couple of weeks or months off from your workout program, you ... Continue Reading
The Best Way to Warm Up Before Lifting Weights
If you’re a strength athlete, you should be warming up before you lift. But, as with pretty much everything fitness-related, the internet has a lot of conflicting information about warming up. While there ... Continue Reading
Add Supersets to Your Training to Make More Gains in Less Time
Supersets have been a staple of the weight lifting community for years. Ever since the days of Schwarzenegger’s reign in bodybuilding, gym rats all over the world have been taking inspiration from his ... Continue Reading
How to Use the RPE Scale for Effective Strength Gains
You’ve seen it in training templates. You’ve heard athletes mutter it to their coaches in the gym after an intense-looking set. You’ve probably even seen memes about it on strength-specific social media ... Continue Reading
Optimized Breathing Is Rich Froning’s Secret Weapon for WOD Performance (Brought to You by AIRWAAV™)
To compete at the highest levels of CrossFit competition, many might think that strength, speed, agility, endurance, stamina, conditioning, form, or a plethora of other physical aspects are most ... Continue Reading
8 Benefits of Lifting Weights You’ve Probably Never Heard of
One of the most damaging misconceptions surrounding the world of fitness is that lifting weights is simply an exercise in vanity. But an essential lesson to internalize — for both experienced athletes and ... Continue Reading
How to Train Power for Speed and Stronger Lifts
When it comes to performance, athletes of all disciplines have one thing in common — they’re powerful. Whether it’s cranking out an absurd number of bench press reps in the NFL combine or snatching a ... Continue Reading
Russian Kettlebell Swings Vs. American Kettlebell Swings
The kettlebell swing is a ballistic movement seen throughout strength and conditioning realms, functional fitness competitions, and everyday fitness. Two popular variations are the Russian and American ... Continue Reading
Grip Strength, Better Posture, and More — 6 Benefits of Farmer’s Walks
One of the best exercises for you may also be one of the most simplistic. The farmer's walk has you pick up a pair of barbells loaded with weight plates, dumbbells, kettlebells, or specific farmer walk ... Continue Reading
24 Deadlift Variations for Muscle, Strength, Speed, Grip Strength, and More
You can, in fact, have too much of a good thing — beer, pre-workout, and pizza (though the jury is out on this one). However, you can ball that kernel of wisdom up and chuck it out the window when it comes ... Continue Reading
The Bulldog Grip — Tips, Tricks, & Alternatives for a Better Bench Press
There are plenty of ways to grip a barbell, and not every grip is created equal — so what's right and what's wrong? When it comes to pressing movements, the best grip to use will be the one that is ... Continue Reading
RPE Vs. Percentage-Based Training Explained
When it comes to gaining strength in the gym, a tactical approach is always better than shooting from the hip. While some athletes can follow their instincts and make long-term progress, most people will ... Continue Reading
How to Incorporate Bands and Chains Into Your Weight Training
Adding bands and chains to your main lifts can provide a different training stimulus to take your strength and power to new heights. Some lifters use bands and chains as a staple in their programming. ... Continue Reading
Bar Velocity Tracking: Gimmick or Innovation?
The landscape of the strength training world is rapidly changing. Between emergent research and a commercially incentivized desire to find the “next big thing,” coaches and athletes are constantly looking ... Continue Reading
Use Accommodating Resistance to Break Through Strength Plateaus
Plateauing in the gym on key movements is common. It's also really frustrating. At some point, your body adapts to the weight you’re using, and even a five-pound increase in weight can feel like a month ... Continue Reading
The Lifter’s Guide to Progressive Overload
To improve in any area in the gym, you need one thing: progression. A lot of lifters casually throw around the term progressive overload. They’ll often use it to refer to the process of adding more weight ... Continue Reading
Is Sumo Deadlifting Really Cheating? The Final Nail In the Coffin
The sumo deadlift is cheating, say lifters who prefer conventional. Just because the sumo deadlift can reduce low back stress doesn’t make it less badass, say lifters who pull sumo. Sure, the basic rules ... Continue Reading