Imagine your favorite workout. For strength and functional fitness athletes, this fantasy likely features a training session involving barbells, a load of bumper plates, or a Rogue echo bike. At the very ... Continue Reading
Learn How to Box Squat to Lift More Weight and Improve Power
The box squat is thought of as a move for hardcore powerlifters looking to eke out every ounce of progress from their squat. Actually, it’s a great move that any lifter can do to improve the back squat, ... Continue Reading
Master the Jump Rope Again with Double Unders
The sound of a clacking jump rope might bring you back to the middle school playground or your childhood backyard. As an adult, though, you may not pick one up nearly as often — unless you’re a ... Continue Reading
How to Do the Dumbbell Snatch — Variations, Benefits, Mistakes, and More
Upon hearing the word "snatch," you probably have an image of some elite weightlifter (like Lasha Talakhadze) toiling away day after day for years on end to master this one exercise. So if you don't have ... Continue Reading
Perfect the Push Press for Muscle and Strength Gains
If you want to start lifting heavier weights overhead, look no further than the push press. The push press is a variation of the overhead press that brings the lower body to the party to help take your ... Continue Reading
Build a Complete Workout With These 9 Best Accessory Exercises for Weightlifting
There’s more to the story in weightlifting than just the snatch and clean & jerk. If you want to get better at the lifts, practicing them over and over again won’t cut it on its own. You should still ... Continue Reading
Perfect the Pallof Press for More Core Strength and Stability
What exercises come to mind when you picture a chiseled six-pack? Crunches, sit-ups, maybe a plank? What about the Pallof press? Probably not, because the move sounds more like a piece of construction ... Continue Reading
3 Big Benefits of the Low-Bar Back Squat
[Read More: The Best Quad Exercises and Quad Workouts for Muscle Gain] No one is born knowing how to squat with a loaded barbell draped across their back. Everyone starts somewhere, and the ... Continue Reading
Learn the Best TRX Exercises for Your Experience Level
In 1997, Navy SEAL Randy Hetrick was on deployment and wanted to get in a solid workout. According to legend, he created his first version of the TRX suspension training system out of a jiu-jitsu belt and ... Continue Reading
How to Do the Dumbbell Pullover for a Bigger Back and Chest
Serious strength athletes and steadfast gymgoers know that prioritizing heavy compound movements will always do more to get you bigger than single-joint accessory exercises. But isolation moves are not ... Continue Reading
10 of the Best Back Exercises for Beginner to Advanced Weightlifters
In weightlifting, every day is back day. Moving the barbell involves using the strength of your whole body, and your back is a prime contributor to your success both on and off the platform. Whether you're ... Continue Reading
How to Do the Goblet Squat: Proper Form and Variations
The goblet squat is a great exercise and teaching tool to help you graduate to other squat variations, or to just build a bit of leg muscle. This front-loaded squat variation ensures that you stay upright, ... Continue Reading
Learn the Deficit Sumo Deadlift for More Pulling Strength and Mobility
Want to stir up some trouble between strength athletes? Bring up their deadlift stance. Sumo deadlifts are controversial, to say the least. To some, taking a sumo stance is cheating. You can lift more ... Continue Reading
Learn the Good Morning for a Seriously Strong Posterior Chain
The name tells you absolutely nothing about the exercise, but lifters laud the good morning for its ability to increase hamstring and glute strength, teach proper hip hinge mechanics, and help ... Continue Reading
Let the JM Press Be Your Key to Bigger and Stronger Triceps
Your triceps — the muscle that sits on the back of your arm and flexes your elbow — are important for building bigger arms and moving more weight on the bench press. And few moves are better at ... Continue Reading
Try Out the Best Split Squat Variations For Every Experience Level
Building your lower body is a mainstay of your program. You deadlift and squat all the time. But training your lower body while making sure to training both legs equally may be something your program has ... Continue Reading
Learn the Best Single-Arm Row Variations for Absurd Upper Back Strength
You might love training your back with barbells, and you’re not alone. With these lengthy tools, you can slap on as many weight plates as you’ve trained for and pull incredibly heavy iron off the ground. ... Continue Reading
How to Do the Straight-Arm Pulldown — Benefits, Variations, and Muscles Worked
There is nothing that screams strength and power more than a thick, well-developed back. It is essential in almost all of the major lifts you perform in the gym, and the wider your back is, the smaller ... Continue Reading
How to Do the Pistol Squat For Mobility and Leg Strength
Bodyweight exercises have a reputation of being easy, a necessary evil if you're without a home gym or stuck on vacation without equipment. Not only are they effective, but certain bodyweight moves are ... Continue Reading
15 Best Hamstring Exercises & Workouts for Stronger Legs, DPT-Approved
If you have weak hamstrings, then there’s a strong chance you’re not maxing out on your strength potential for squats and deadlifts. Plus, lack of hamstring eccentric strength is a known cause of hamstring ... Continue Reading
The 15 Best Lunge Variations to Level Up Your Leg Day
You’ve spent the week dreading it, but leg day is finally here. Your first go-to is likely the back squat — and with good reason. Barbell squats help you move a tremendous amount of weight. Along with ... Continue Reading
Use the Bent-Over Row to Make Big Gains With Big Weights
Few exercises isolate your entire back quite like bent-over rows. You hinge forward, brace your core, and then draw your elbows to squeeze the living daylights out of your lats, rhomboids, and traps. ... Continue Reading
How to Do the Dumbbell Flye — Proper Form, Mistakes, Alternatives, and More
Compound, multi-joint movements should make up the bulk of a strength training program. Due to their functional nature, they elicit a fantastic training response that helps to build lean muscle mass and ... Continue Reading
How to Do the Pendlay Row for Back Size and Stronger Lifts
If you’ve never heard of the Pendlay row — which is a close variation to the bent-over barbell row — you may well be skimping on your back gains. Innovated by USA Weightlifting coach Glenn Pendlay, this ... Continue Reading