While the barbell is a key ingredient for overall pressing strength and chest hypertrophy, equipment like dumbbells can still be high quality alternatives that can build serious bench press strength and muscle mass.
Bench presses and push ups are some of the most recognized chest exercise seen in most strength, power, and fitness programs. Building a bigger, stronger, more defined chest is often at the top
Training at home can be challenging (assuming you do not have an amazing home gym), however not impossible. Glute training, more specifically, does not always necessitate high amounts of loading and equipment to
Coaches and athletes can integrate glute training within warm-up segments, glute activation series, and hypertrophy/accessory blocks to increase muscular hypertrophy and glute engagement. The benefits of powerful, engaged glutes have a strong correlation
Olympic weightlifting requires great amounts of leg strength to produce successful snatches, cleans, and jerks. Movements like back squats, front squats, and pulls are the main movements used to acquire strength and hypertrophy
Olympic lifts have been shown to be one of the most effective ways to increase peak power output. In a 2001 study that surveyed 28 professional NFL (National Football League) strength and conditioning
Strength and conditioning programs are key in distance running programs to increase leg strength, correct muscular imbalances and asymmetries, and improve overall performance. Weightlifting, in the form of snatches and clean and jerks
Olympic lifts have been shown to increase athletic potential. Most arguments for and against the usage of Olympic lifts for baseball players are not over the effectiveness of Olympic lifts making better athletes,
As an athlete, life is easier when you are fast. In many sports, sprinting speed is one of the predominate physical characteristics that differentiates an athlete’s level of playing ability(1)(7). Sprint training is
Movements like the kettlebell windmill offer coaches and athletes both stability and mobility training benefits across most joints and tissues of the human body. Strength, power, and finess athletes can utilize the kettlebell
