Before there were weight plates and dumbbells, there were stones. Stone lifting is a universal feat of strength recognized by people everywhere. Scotland is home to the famed Dinnie stones. Iceland ... Continue Reading
The Hip Hinge Will Make Or Break Your Big Lifts. Here’s How to Do it
The hip hinge is more than an exercise. It’s a fundamental movement necessary for success in the deadlift, Olympic lifts, and more. Lifters can unlock their strength potential and protect themselves from ... Continue Reading
The Wall Ball is the Cardio Booster Your Workouts Are Missing
Most of us know all too well the feeling of the burning lungs, weak, flaccid arms, and legs that are on the verge of buckling. We're talking about wall balls — the dynamic squat and press exercise that ... Continue Reading
Simple Yet Effective — Here’s How to Do the Plank
Few exercises are as basic yet effective as the plank. To the untrained eye, a plank is a lazy person's exercise. Heck, you're not even standing up. But experienced gym-goers, or even someone who has tried ... Continue Reading
How the Reverse Hyperextension Builds a Bulletproof Posterior Chain
Your lower back, glutes, and hamstrings are the foundation of your body. Though each muscle serves a function on its own, combined, this trio makes up a decent portion of your core and supports your spine. ... Continue Reading
How Plyometric Push-Ups Can Improve Pressing Strength
Push-ups have been around for ages and are a widely embraced movement used to test upper body strength and fitness. Plyometric training has some amazing benefits — more power and strength — yet only with ... Continue Reading
The Glute-Ham Raise is a Functional Hamstring Builder
The glute-ham raise is an effective posterior chain exercise to develop strength, hypertrophy, and muscular endurance in the hamstrings, glutes, and lower back. Power, strength, and fitness athletes all ... Continue Reading
How to Do the Inverted Row — Variations, Alternatives, Sets and Reps Explained
The pull-up gets a lot of credit for being the ultimate back-building exercise. We’re not going to dispute that claim. But if you’re the type of lifter to shrug off inverted rows as a weakling’s pull-up — ... Continue Reading
The Split Squat Can Improve Mobility and Leg Strength
If the back squat is the cool guy everyone wants to hang out with, then the split squat is his older, less cool but more practical older brother. You can't lift as heavy with the split squat, but you'll ... Continue Reading
How to Do Dips: Proper Form & Variations
If you want to develop serious upper body strength, drive muscle growth, and improve your lockout performance in the bench press, there is one lift to rule them all — the dip. This is a simple movement ... Continue Reading
Get Strong and Bust Through Sticking Points With the Half Squat
Half squats are thought to be a gym sin carried out by either weak or lazy squatters that can't or don't want to hit depth. Full-depth squats are indeed ideal for building leg muscle, improving squat ... Continue Reading
Build Big Traps and Strengthen Your Lifts With Shrugs
Well-developed traps don’t only make you look jacked. They also play a crucial role in deadlifting, squatting, carrying, and in the Olympic lifts. The shrug is an excellent exercise for building the traps. ... Continue Reading
Do the Suitcase Deadlift For a Strong Grip and More Muscle
The suitcase deadlift — where you perform a deadlift with one side of your body loaded — is more useful than you may think. First, think about how often you carry something in one hand, be it a bag of ... Continue Reading
Use the Snatch Balance to Perfect Your Timing and Speed
Perfecting the snatch takes time, dedication, and a highly detailed approach to addressing technical faults and weaknesses. One exercise that can drastically enhance a weightlifter's, CrossFit athlete's, ... Continue Reading
Make the Most Out Of Leg Day With the Best Leg Exercises for Mass
Big legs serve two primary purposes: First, they prevent you from looking like a pair of pecs on stilts. Second, they support the massive weights that strength athletes like powerlifters are known for ... Continue Reading
The Jefferson Squat is an Old-Time Exercise That Builds Supreme Leg Size
The Jefferson squat is a unique squat variation that can increase leg strength, size, core stability, and build power in multiple planes of movement. Named after circus strongman Charles Jefferson ... Continue Reading
The 13 Best Trap Exercises & Workouts, CPT-Approved
Traps may be the new abs to strength athletes — at least in the sense that they're hard to obtain and signal to the world that you take your fitness goals seriously. Just like you can't get abs without ... Continue Reading
The 5 Best Hip Flexor Exercises for Your Leg Day Warm-Up
The muscles you don't see have a big impact on the muscles you do, and the hip flexors fall into this category. Although they are unseen, the strength and performance of your hip flexors directly affect ... Continue Reading
How to Do the Floor Press — Benefits, Variations, and More
The floor press is a simple and highly effective pressing variation that can be used as a primary pressing movement, accessory lift, or even by injury-prone lifters. Taking your bench press from a bench to ... Continue Reading
The 7 Best Foam Roller Exercises for Mobility and Better Movement
Foam rolling is a popular myofascial release method among strength athletes and the general population to help reduce post-exercise muscle soreness and improve mobility. But if you’re only using this tool ... Continue Reading
The 5 Best Neck Exercises for More Mobility and Bigger Traps
The average human head weighs eight pounds. When you think about it like that, your neck, which is what supports and rotates your head, is pretty darn strong. And just like any muscle — well, the neck is ... Continue Reading
How to Do a Hang Clean: Proper Form & Variations
Powerful hip drive is a must in strength sports. Popular among weightlifters and CrossFit athletes, the hang clean has you drive the barbell from knee level to shoulder height. Flip your elbows, then catch ... Continue Reading
Build Ridiculous Core Strength With the Toes to Bar
Don't let the simplicity of the toes to bar exercise fool you — raising your feet from extension to your head can forge iron-like abs. There are plenty of other reasons to sub this exercise into your ab ... Continue Reading
Realize the Strength and Power-Building Benefits of the Clean & Jerk
Few moves are as dynamic and recruit as many muscles — namely, the quads, back shoulders, glutes, and core — as the clean & jerk. It's one of the two competition lifts in the sport of weightlifting, ... Continue Reading