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
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 Best Conditioning Workouts for Weightlifters to Help You Get Strong, Lean, and Limber
All weightlifters share a common goal of reaching their strength potential. Plenty of time is spent working on adding weight to the bar, but there’s more to the story than just repeatedly going heavy day ... 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
Muscle “Myth”, Busted — Here Are the Best Lower Chest Workouts for Bodybuilding
A well-developed chest can help you forge a more ideal physique for the bodybuilding stage, turn heads at the beach, or just look a bit bigger in the mirror. That said, most people don’t think too far ... Continue Reading
The Best EMOM Workouts for Strength, Endurance, and Mass
If you could, you’d spend hour after hour in the gym each day. But between family, work, friends, and sleeping every once in a while, you may just not be able to dedicate all that time to iron. If you’re ... Continue Reading
The 15 Best Dynamic Warm-Up Exercises You Need Before Your Next Workout
You probably know that person at the gym who walks in off the street, slaps a few plates on the bar and calls one light set their warm-up. You shouldn't be that person. It might save time, and skipping ... Continue Reading
8 of the Best Weightlifting Exercises to Improve Your Overhead Performance
A typical weightlifting diet involves taking the barbell overhead frequently. The classic lifts, known as the snatch and the clean & jerk, both share the functional purpose of lifting the barbell to ... Continue Reading
The Best Bodybuilding Calf Workout for Your Experience Level
In the world of bodybuilding, you have no good excuse to not train a muscle. This idea holds true almost exclusively, with one exception. If there was an Overton window of neglected musculature, the calves ... Continue Reading
The Best Foods for Energy Before, During, and After Your Workouts
Your workout routine is complicated enough on its own. Whether you've gone through the perils of program design and built something custom-made for your body or spent many hours mulling over which ... Continue Reading
The Best Bodybuilding Ab Workout for Your Experience Level
There are two warring factions that constantly struggle to claim dominance over the core training conversation, even in bodybuilding. The “squats are all you need” crowd, whose ethos is based on ... Continue Reading
The 15 Best Bodyweight Chest Exercises for Benching Strength and Power
There’s a reason it’s called International Chest Day. Training for a big chest starts your lifting week off right — and sliding some weight plates on the bar is an effective, powerful way to do that. But ... Continue Reading
The Five Best Weightlifting Barbell Complexes for Getting Seriously Strong and Fast
When it comes to weightlifting, there's more than one way to skin the proverbial cat. The snatch and clean & jerk are considered the classic lifts, but there’s an abundance of other lifts you can train ... Continue Reading
The 16 Best Trap Bar Exercises to Move More Weight with Less Strain
The trap bar, also known as the hex bar, may be one of the best tools that you’re not using. Or, you’re only using it for deadlifts. But the neutral-grip handles and unique positioning make the trap bar a ... Continue Reading
The 15 Best Upper Ab Exercises for a Stronger Core
A strong core looks great (assuming your diet is in check), but it also is the focal point of your performance in the gym. Without a strong core, you probably won't be that strong in general. Your core is ... Continue Reading
The Best Unilateral Exercises to Even Out Imbalances and Help You Get Stronger
When you want to build max strength, you’ll typically aim for bilateral exercises. Those are the moves where both sides of your body are doing the same thing at the same time. Think of your basic compound ... Continue Reading
The Best HIIT Workouts for Any Fitness Goal
Long workouts are for the birds. Why spend two hours in the gym if you don't have to? If you’re looking for a way to break out of a mental or physical rut in training, a few good HIIT workouts will do just ... Continue Reading
The Best Loaded Carry Workouts for Brute Strength and Shoulder Stability
Picking up something heavy and putting it right down again is both impressive and tough. But sometimes (AKA, grocery day), you don't just need to pick something up. You need to bring it to a new location. ... Continue Reading
The Best AMRAP Workouts to Get (and Stay) Fit in Less Time
Strength training can certainly tick a lot of boxes. From getting stronger, building muscle, improving joint health and stability, there aren’t a whole lot of gaps that a good weight training program can’t ... Continue Reading
Elevate Your Presses and Squats With the 12 Best Landmine Exercises
The landmine training method was invented a long time before the landmine base came in vogue. Remember Arnold Schwarzenegger sticking a barbell in the corner of his gym to do heavy sets of T-bar rows in ... Continue Reading
The Best Dumbbell Back Workouts For Putting On Serious Size and Strength
The amount of muscles that make up the back provide a diverse variety of options for how you can structure your workouts. Given that there are so many unique ways to attack your back, you might actually ... Continue Reading
The Five Best Dumbbell Triceps Workouts You Need to Build Beefy Arms
Dumbbells are a tool that age like fine wine. They're great for beginners, and stay relevant throughout your training career. They’re a staple in almost every commercial gym, and their nearly-universal ... Continue Reading
The 15 Best Smith Machine Exercises and How to do Them
The Smith machine may be one of the most reviled pieces of equipment in the gym — but if you're a Smith machine troll, you may want to reconsider your position. There is a place for it in your ... Continue Reading