Nothing hits like a good pump. Your shirt drapes over your chest after a few high-rep sets of pec flyes. Your shoulders, engorged with blood, stretch wider than usual and accentuate your V-taper. Leaving ... Continue Reading
Does Lifting Weights Burn Fat? Here’s What You Need to Know
Losing weight is simple, but not necessarily easy. When you boil it down to the most basic biology, losing (or gaining) body weight is mostly about balancing your calories: Create a deficit by burning more ... Continue Reading
Is a Calorie Just a Calorie? An RD Weighs In
Across the fitness industry, training and nutrition are often portrayed as inseparable from calories. Whether you’re counting how many calories you’re consuming in your meal prep or how many you’re ... Continue Reading
4 Ways Stress Is Killing Your Gains
You're hitting the gym religiously, progressively overloading your lifts, and you're on top of your protein intake. But the muscle gains still aren't coming through. So what gives? While it's ... Continue Reading
What Is Barbell Knurling? Plus, Other Barbell Features to Know About
Today is the day. After weeks and months of hard training, your strength training program finally calls for a new 1-rep max in the deadlift. You’ve got the gym to yourself, your favorite song pounding in ... Continue Reading
Do Cold Showers Burn Fat? Everything You Need to Know About Weight Loss and Cold Water Exposure
Your experience with fitness may well take you through some unique lifestyle changes. From dialing in your nutrition to finally locking in that eight-hour sleep window, what you do in your downtime has a ... Continue Reading
Does Protein Powder Cause Acne?
Getting to the gym and consistently crushing your workouts makes you feel good and strong; that’s why you love it. In addition to training, keeping your protein intake high can help you build muscle, lose ... Continue Reading
How to Do the Sumo Deadlift, According to a Personal Trainer
The sumo is the dark horse of deadlifting. The first time you saw someone split their legs in the gym and yank a bar-bending amount of weight, you were probably more than a little puzzled. It may have even ... Continue Reading
What Is Erythritol? Is This Zero-Calorie Sweetener Too Good to Be True?
On your muscle-building journey, you’ll need protein. And if you’re on the hunt for the best protein powders, we imagine you’ve scanned the labels in search of the perfect formulation. Somewhere in those ... Continue Reading
How to Do the Nordic Curl to Power Up Your Hamstrings Without Weights
The Nordic curl is not for the faint of heart… or hamstrings. Don’t be misled by the fact that this move is “merely” a bodyweight exercise. Once you truly dive into this move, thoughts of adding weight ... Continue Reading
Thousands of Gym Rats Crashed a Website Trying to Buy This 20-Pound Coffee Mug
“Erick, If I were part of Eleiko’s board, I would vote to fire you,” begins one of over 700 comments on an apologetic Instagram post by Erik Blomberg, the Chief Executive Officer of Eleiko Sport. One would ... Continue Reading
How To Do a Barbell Row: Correct Form and Muscles Worked
You won't do much better than the barbell row when it comes to gaining back strength and size. Better yet, the strength you gain from rowing a heavy barbell in a hinged position carries over to almost ... Continue Reading
How to Do Dumbbell Rows With the Right Form, CPT Approved
The dumbbell row, also known as the single-arm dumbbell row, is one of those exercises that we hope stays in style. It's also simple as heck to do — you kneel on a bench and row your arm to your side — and ... Continue Reading
Do Massage Guns Work? Here’s the Research and Insights from a PT
Of all the gadgets designed to alleviate muscle soreness and accelerate muscle recovery, massage guns have rapidly risen to occupy a vanguard position. (1) In the hands of many physical therapists, massage ... Continue Reading
5 Spirulina Benefits That Will Have You Adding this Superfood to Your Protein Shake
Strength athletes know that what they put into their bodies is just as important as the work they do at the gym. When choosing supplements to improve performance or overall health, some people prefer ... Continue Reading
The 10 Best Exercises for Long-Length Partial Reps
The bodybuilding world is abuzz right now. Exercise science researchers and content creators alike may have struck muscle-building gold. Long-length partial reps, or LLPs, are the talk of the town. New ... Continue Reading
How to Do Hammer Curls — Benefits, Variations, and More
If there's one unifying fact among strength athletes from different sports, it's that they all appreciate (or at least have) a large pair of arms. Though different athletes train for different feats of ... Continue Reading
8 Types of Magnesium and Which One You Should Add to Your Supplement Stack
When you’ve got a fitness goal, you put in a lot of work. Whether you want to finally pull a 500-pound deadlift or change your body composition, you plan out your training program and make sure you’re ... Continue Reading
7 Tips to Get Stronger After 40
It's been said that getting old isn’t bad when you consider the alternative. And while aging is inevitable, that doesn't mean your strength training days need to slow down with each new trip around the ... Continue Reading
What Is NEAT and How Does it Impact Your Training and Weight Loss Potential?
As a strength athlete, you might find yourself spending a lot of time thinking about your program: your training volume, what exercises you choose, and how heavy you’re lifting. If you’re committed to ... Continue Reading
How Does Kinesiology Tape Work? + How to Use It Properly
You’ve probably seen it at your local gym or if you happened to catch part of an event like the CrossFit Games on television: Athletes strutting around looking like Amazon packages, bound up in black ... Continue Reading
Are Squats Really More “Anabolic” Than Other Exercises?
Your Takeaways There are a lot of good reasons to squat. For starters, squats are tremendously effective at building muscle in your legs and hips. The squat is also one of your fundamental movement ... Continue Reading
The Best CrossFit Kettlebell Workouts for At-Home CrossFit Training
When you think of CrossFit, from the athletes to your neighborhood box, you may think of complex barbell exercises with advanced gymnastic moves. CrossFit workouts consist of demanding, high-intensity, ... Continue Reading
Powerlifting Over 40: How to Start, Benefits, & More
Strength training is no longer a young person's game. While professional athletes in most sports live out their glory days long before their 30th birthday, the landscape of strength sports spin a different ... Continue Reading