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
How to Clean Home Gym Equipment
Your favorite fitness facility is probably well-stocked with disinfectant wipes and spray bottles, along with signs advising you to do two things: re-rack your weights and wipe down your equipment. It ... Continue Reading
What Are Cross-Training Shoes? How to Pick the Best Pair of Cross-Trainers for You
You don’t have to be working out deep inside a CrossFit box to be seduced by the proliferation of CrossFit-inspired shoes — the NOBULL Trainer and Nike Metcon come to mind. Sure enough, cross-trainers have ... Continue Reading
Yoga Guide for Beginners (And the Best Yoga Poses for Beginners)
In the weight room, you know exactly what to do. Put one of the best barbells in your hands or a kettlebell in front of you, and you know precisely which exercises to do to get the most effective gains for ... Continue Reading
The Best Hotel Gym Workout to Help You Keep Training on the Road
There was a time when working out while traveling meant calisthenics training, walking, and maybe some travel-sized resistance bands. But if your destination includes a hotel, chances are you may have ... Continue Reading
9 Different Types of Creatine, Explained by Experts
Creatine is one of the most effective and widely studied sports supplements, with a strong reputation for maximizing strength, power, and muscle gain. It’s no surprise that you can find a staggering ... Continue Reading
The 8 Best Kettlebell Back Exercises to Build Your Back Without a Barbell
Training your back isn’t just a one-exercise-and-done situation. That’s because the back contains an intricate system of muscles that support pretty much every movement in your body. If you’re bending, ... Continue Reading
The 5 Best HIIT Treadmill Workouts to Bring Some Heart to Your Training
High-intensity interval training (or HIIT) is a style of cardio that athletes either love, hate, or (somehow) both at once. From aerobics classes to long-distance nature walks, there’s no shortage of ... Continue Reading
How to Do Chris Hemsworth’s Workout Routine, + Helpful Tips & Tricks
Chris Hemsworth is a spectacle on the silver screen. And no, it’s not just because of his recurring portrayal of Thor, the muscle-bound, lightning-wielding God of Thunder across the various entries of the ... Continue Reading
7 Retired NFL Stars Who Are Still Strong as Hell
Meet football: A sport that averages around 16.7 million TV viewers per game annually and is the undisputed king of TV in the U.S. Some of the sport's best – and biggest – moments revolve around ... Continue Reading
These Are 7 of the Most Famous Gyms in the World
Most of Robbins Lane — a narrow strip connecting two larger highways in the blue-collar Syosset neighborhood of Long Island, New York — is punctured by potholes. There’s an inlet between 231 Robbins Ln. (a ... Continue Reading
The Rock’s Arm Workout: How to Do It, + Tips for Gaining Muscle
If you’re active on social media or happen to have been to a movie theater in the last, oh, decade or so, you can probably smell what the Rock is cooking. Former WWE superstar turned Hollywood action hero ... Continue Reading
These Are the Best Muscle Group Combinations to Work Out Together
Some things just belong together: peanut butter & jelly, chicken and rice, milk and cookies and, when it comes to your workout routine, certain muscle groups. Most strength training workouts are ... Continue Reading
How to Build a Powerlifting Home Gym
You get to your commercial gym, and all you want to do is squat. But — lo and behold — there’s someone already using the squat rack. And to make matters worse, they’re not even using it to do back squats ... Continue Reading
Is Too Much Protein Powder Bad for You?
After a tough workout, there’s nothing like drinking a quick protein shake to start your muscle recovery. When you have a high protein intake goal, you always strive to consume enough food to reach it. ... Continue Reading
10 Benefits of a Sauna After a Workout That Will Revolutionize Your Recovery Strategy
The sauna in your gym locker room is much more than just a quiet place to chill out. It’s not just about the silence (though that will undoubtedly be attractive to many athletes juggling a loud gym with a ... Continue Reading
How To Do the Inchworm Exercise Correctly (+ Guides and Tips)
When it comes to warm-up exercises and drills, the good ol’ KISS principle — that’s “keep it simple, stupid” — applies. Sure, there are times when you might need to break out a specific movement to tackle ... Continue Reading