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The Best 15 Minute Workouts for Strength, Conditioning,

The Best 15 Minute Workouts for Strength, Conditioning, and More

You might love a long workout as much as the next gym nerd. But sometimes you can’t spend hours in the gym. You might be traveling, working hard at that new job, or just need to squeeze in an extra ... Continue Reading

The Best Kettlebell Strength Circuit To Improve Your Lifts

The Best Kettlebell Strength Circuit To Improve Your Lifts

When you’re looking to build your strength, barbells are fantastic, but they’re not your only option for getting strong. Using kettlebell strength circuits to get stronger will not only help you lift ... Continue Reading

The 15 Best Cable Exercises for Hypertrophy, Strength

The 15 Best Cable Exercises for Hypertrophy, Strength, and Stability

Cable exercises offer an incredibly diverse range of benefits to every lifter. They are potent tools to optimize hypertrophy training, and offer a joint-stabilizing option between rigid machines and free ... Continue Reading

The Best All-Around Kettlebell Training Program

The Best All-Around Kettlebell Training Program

Figuring out how to work out with kettlebells — in all their off-balanced glory — is one thing. You’ve long since mastered the kettlebell swing, and you’ve even got enough training pizzazz to perform a ... Continue Reading

The Best Kettlebell Workouts for Strength, Muscle Mass,

The Best Kettlebell Workouts for Strength, Muscle Mass, Beginners, and More

If you have room for only one piece of strength equipment in your home gym, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a better alternative than the oddly-shaped powerhouses known as kettlebells. Working out with ... Continue Reading

Best Upper Back Exercises

13 Best Upper Back Exercises and 4 Upper Back Workouts

Hot take: We think the upper back is the new abs. Sure, a shredded six-pack turns heads at the beach or pool, but a beefy upper back signals to the entire world that you hit the weights on a regular ... Continue Reading

The Best Airport Workouts for Staying Fit During Holiday Travel

The Best Airport Workouts for Staying Fit During Holiday Travel

For most, the holidays are a welcome respite from a long year of work. The weeks between Thanksgiving and New Years, while light on daylight, are heavy on good food, quality time with your loved ones, and ... Continue Reading

The Best Holiday Workouts for Maintaining Muscle and Getting Stronger

The Best Holiday Workouts for Maintaining Muscle and Getting Stronger

When your roadmap is clearly laid out and you've got the right plan in your pocket, getting or staying in shape isn't as hard as you think. Whether you want to put on some new muscle or add plates to your ... Continue Reading

The 12 Best Bodyweight Cardio Exercises

The 12 Best Bodyweight Cardio Exercises You Should Be Doing

When you hear the word cardio your thoughts might drift to the drudgery of a treadmill or elliptical. Cardio in lifting circles is often thought of as a dirty word, but improving your cardio has a wide ... Continue Reading

10 Best Shoulder Press Variations

The 10 Best Shoulder Press Variations for Broader Delts

The shoulder press is devilishly simple — you drive a barbell overhead and lower it back to your upper chest. It's a movement that increases strength in the torso, adds mass to primarily the shoulders and ... Continue Reading

Best Kettlebell for a Stronger Bench

The Best Kettlebell Exercises for a Stronger Bench Press

If you feel like you’re hitting a bench plateau, or even if you’re seeing progress but want to add a little spice to your training, kettlebells could be your new best friend. Sure, they’re typically more ... Continue Reading

10 Best Kettlebell Core Exercises

Blast Your Abs With the 10 Best Kettlebell Core Exercises

Kettlebells are used across most strength, power and functional fitness sports to increase mobility, address asymmetries, and offer athletes a way to develop a stronger core without sacrificing training ... Continue Reading

Best Grip Exercises

Get Your Hands Dirty With the 10 Best Grip Exercises 

You need to train your grip. If you can’t hold onto your barbell in the first place, how can you expect to make gains in the gym long-term? A strong grip will help you pull better on rows, cycle faster in ... Continue Reading

10 Best Bodyweight Glute Exercises

Kick Your Own Ass With the 10 Best Bodyweight Glute Exercises

A steel-forged booty looks good on everyone. What's more, smart glute training is a key component of any solid exercise program. Without focusing on your glutes, you might not be able to really maximize ... Continue Reading

5 Best Quad Workouts

The 5 Best Quad Workouts for Forging Bigger and More Explosive Legs

The legs are the pillars of performance in the gym. From sled pushes to sprints, box jumps to bench pressing, everything you do in training demands strong legs in some way. Therefore, training your quads ... Continue Reading

Best Bench Press Variations

The 8 Best Bench Press Variations to Try on Your Next Chest Day

The bench press may be one of the most popular exercises in the gym. It may also be the exercise that gym-goers plateau on the most. Progress starts quickly as one learns the basic technique, but many a ... Continue Reading

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The Best Pull-Up Variations for All Experience Levels

If there’s one upper body exercise every strength athlete should include in their training program, it’s the pull-up. Think of pull-ups as squats for the upper body — arguably, no other upper body exercise ... Continue Reading

The 15 Best Manual Resistance Exercises

The 15 Best Manual Resistance Exercises to Help You Build Muscle Anywhere

Whether you’re battling back from injury, lack the home gym of your dreams, or are just sick and tired of slinging dumbbells, sometimes you need an alternative to weight training. While it can be hard to ... Continue Reading

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How Much Caffeine Do You Need to Get Your Best Workout? (Brought to You by Kaged Muscle)

How you prepare for a training session can be just as important as the actual work you put in, in the gym. To get the most out of your time in the iron paradise, pre-workout supplements are the way to go. ... Continue Reading

The 15 Best Oblique Exercises

The 15 Best Oblique Exercises for a Rock Solid and Stable Core

It’s no secret that specifically training your core can carry over into stronger lifts and more muscle growth. Your core muscles transmit force throughout your body and keep you strong and stable — ... Continue Reading

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The Best Bodyweight Workouts for Muscle, Beginners, Mobility, and More

Whether you don’t have access to a gym or want to spice up your training routine, consider bodyweight training. It might not seem like much compared to tossing a loaded barbell on your back, but training ... Continue Reading

The Best Core Workouts For Strength

The Best Core Workouts for Strength, Muscle, and Power

Even if you're actively chasing a six-pack, there are plenty of other reasons to strengthen your core. If you want to PR in your deadlift and bench press or pack on muscle mass, training your core ... Continue Reading

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The Best Way to Warm Up Before Lifting Weights

If you’re a strength athlete, you should be warming up before you lift. But, as with pretty much everything fitness-related, the internet has a lot of conflicting information about warming up. While there ... Continue Reading

Best Plyo Box Exercises

The 8 Best Plyo Box Exercises for Conditioning and Strength Gains

If you’re looking for a way to spice up your training with a variety of different movements that will leave you hands-on-your-knees tired while still developing some serious power and strength, look no ... Continue Reading

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