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At Home Bodyweight Exercises

Study: How Do Men and Women Respond Differently to Strength Training?

Men and women both have incredible potential when it comes to increasing their strength, hypertrophy, and power with resistance training. Over the last few decades, multiple studies have explored potential ... Continue Reading

Triceps Training

3 Triceps Training Rules (for Every Workout)

The triceps play a crucial role in lifting, sports, and everyday life. They play the incredibly important part of extending the elbow and help stabilize the shoulder extension, so yeah, without the triceps ... Continue Reading

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5 Yoga Poses Powerlifters Should Try For a Better Big 3

When you think of yoga, you (may) think of men and women wearing stretchy clothes twisting themselves into knots, granola hippies who would not hurt a fly. Let us put this stereotype to bed. Here are ... Continue Reading

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4 Challenging Pull-Apart Variations For A Stronger Upper Back

Seven years ago, my right shoulder was hurting. My A/C joint was inflamed, and any bilateral pressing movements were out of the question. Life in and outside the gym sucked. The only option was to give ... Continue Reading

Back Squat

Study: Low Vs High Training Frequency for Strength and Mass

In the day and age of more, more, more, frequency is often a training variable that is taken to the extremes, but does it need to be? A better question to answer is, "how much does frequency really ... Continue Reading

Barbell Mash

Pay Attention to Your Foot and Ankle Mobility: Your Lifts Will Thank You For It

Foot and ankle mobility is a bit like clean drinking water: We take it for granted and don’t truly appreciate its value until we lose access to it. While seeking to improve ankle mobility or stability ... Continue Reading

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15 No-Equipment Moves For Lower Body Hypertrophy

Your muscles respond to training stimulus, and unless you have an awesome home gym, you’re sorely missing your favorite stimuli right now (think barbells). So when you’re training your lower body at home ... Continue Reading

Chin Up

Try These Exercises To Maintain Your Biceps Without Weights

It’s not too hard to get your push work in while you’re not in the gym — push-ups, chair dips, and squat varieties have probably been your best friends since your gym closed. But if you’re getting ... Continue Reading

Bent-Knee Plank Elbow Extensions

Strength Athletes: Don’t Overlook Your Wrists

If you suffer from poor range of motion in your wrists, you likely long for the day that you can get into a better front rack position, pain-free. Or if you’ve ever had an acute wrist injury, you know ... Continue Reading

Broad Jump

The Big 3: How Strong Are You Across These Key Bodyweight Movements?

In an ideal world, we’d all have access to the gym of our dreams, 24 hours a day and 365 days a year. The reality, however, is often very different, as travel, work and life in general all can conspire ... Continue Reading

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4 Mini Band Exercises to Improve Your Shoulder Mobility

Let's not lie to ourselves: 99.9 percent of lifters either want or have great looking shoulders. Having a great and healthy pair of deltoids brings a lot to someone’s overall build and their performance in ... Continue Reading

Powerlifting Shoulder Routine

3 Efficient and Time Saving Shoulder Warm-Ups

The shoulder is one of the most mobile joints on the body, which makes it an important area to warm-up or least provide some attention to before lifting heavy. Fortunately, a great shoulder warm-up ... Continue Reading

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Upper Body Isometrics: Why and What You Can Do At Home

What are isometrics? They’re movements where your joints don’t move, and there isn’t a noticeable change in the length of your musculature. Generally, when we think about isometric movements, we ... Continue Reading

Front Walking Lunge

Stop Making These 4 Common Lunge Mistakes (Plus How to Fix Them!)

If we had to line up every lower body exercise in a row and pick them out from best to worst based on usefulness and effectiveness, the lunge would easily make it in the top three if not place number ... Continue Reading

Explosive Knee Jumps Phase

The Most Versatile Piece of Equipment You Might Be Forgetting to Use

Like many gyms who closed their doors in recent days, my gym rented out various pieces of equipment to our clients. The kettlebells were swooped up in no time, as were the dumbbells and resistance ... Continue Reading

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3 Ways to Increase Intensity With At-Home Workouts

Well, for most of us, quarantine measures are still in effect, which means gym time is probably limited or non-existent. That sucks – especially if you’re wasting that time completely off rather than ... Continue Reading

Hollow Hold Lat Pulldown

Keep Pulling Without a Pull-Up Bar

When it comes to training with minimal or no equipment, there are undoubtedly more pushing than pulling options: push-ups, handstand push-ups, burpees, bench or chair dips, dumbbell bench press or floor ... Continue Reading

Bodyweight Training Harder

I’m Stuck Inside. How Often Should I Do Bodyweight Workouts?

Bodyweight and at home workouts are an excellent way to continue to push fitness further from the comfort of one's home. The surge of popularity with bodyweight workouts has brought up a lot of questions ... Continue Reading

kettlebell sport

How to Start Training Kettlebell Sport from Home

There is no time like the present to get started on your Kettlebell Sport journey, when most gyms are temporarily closed, and many of us are being asked to shelter in place. As a power endurance ... Continue Reading

pistol squat

7 Tips For Maintaining Muscle Mass Without the Gym

If you heard “shelter in place” and immediately translated it into “no gym,” you’re not alone. Strength athletes of all kinds are trying to adapt to being socially distanced from lifting communities and ... Continue Reading

Squat Stance Differences

Stability Vs Strength: Why Language Matters

This article is indebted to the work of Dr. Jordan Shallow. Check him out at The Muscle Doc and consider taking one of his courses. How can I fix the hip shift while squatting? What ... Continue Reading

How I Cope With My Missing-the-Gym Anxiety

One of the hardest things for a lot of strength athletes to do is slow down. For many of us, the idea of not being able to lift can be legitimately inspire fear. When I was a teenager, I had surgery ... Continue Reading

Chris Bumstead Broomstick Barbell

4 Household Items That Can Double As Fitness Equipment

You may be one of the many athletes currently stuck at home and without access to a gym due to the coronavirus pandemic. If so, you might be concerned about those precious gains turning to steady ... Continue Reading

Brian Shaw Car Deadlift

Brian Shaw Breaks Down How to Do the Car Deadlift

One of the appealing aspects of strongman is the unique ways in which the athletes display their power. Lifts like the car deadlift are simply more interesting than a barbell version. While the visual is ... Continue Reading

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