As the weather gets cooler and holidays come around, family feasts might well become more common in your life. If your family does Thanksgiving together, you might find yourself traveling across the ... Continue Reading
Ramp-Up Sets: How to Get the Most Value From Your Strength Workouts
Getting strong isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. A 500-pound deadlift might sound like an alluring goal, but if you want to pull five plates and more, you have to, literally, get yourself there in the first ... Continue Reading
What is the Suicide Grip and Is it Safe?
When you’re training with barbells, there are a lot of factors to keep track of. You need to check in with yourself about your stance, your posture, and your bar path. One of these critical factors is your ... Continue Reading
Master the Leg Curl for Stronger Hamstrings and Heavier Deadlifts
Free weights generally reign supreme when it comes to the big lower body moves like the squat and deadlift. Don’t be so quick to dismiss machines, though. When you need to target specific muscle groups ... Continue Reading
How to Do the Triceps Kickback for Thicker Arms and a Stronger Lockout
Your bench press has stalled, and your overhead press just won’t lock out — no matter how much you try. When you reach a certain level in your training, chest and shoulder strength just aren’t going to cut ... Continue Reading
10 Best Core Exercises for CrossFit to Help You Crush Your Next WOD
Ask anybody in your gym, and they’ll all probably have slightly different definitions of what it means to have a strong core. Some will say a visible six-pack, while others will talk about how long they ... Continue Reading
Here’s How to Train Like a Superhero
Strength sports aren’t easy. Training for powerlifting, strongman, weightlifting, CrossFit, or bodybuilding is all tough. So why do any of it? Many athletes might tell you they started training because ... Continue Reading
How To Do a Bulgarian Split Squat, With Benefits + Advice From an Expert
How do you train legs? Most people perform some type of squat at some point during their lower-body workouts. But the popularity of the squat doesn’t answer that question; it poses new ones. If you’re ... Continue Reading
What to Look for in a Pre-Mixed Pre-Workout
Athletes, powerlifters, bodybuilders, and other gym-goers who are serious about getting results know that sipping a top-notch pre-workout before exercising can help them run faster, lift longer, and ... Continue Reading
Use Staggered Sets to Bring Up Lagging Body Parts
You train hard. With all the hustle and bustle of, say, building a huge set of guns, sometimes a muscle group or two can be inadvertently left by the wayside. For example, your calves might inadvertently ... Continue Reading
The 15 Best Squat Accessory Exercises for Muscle Growth and Plateau Busting
The squat is likely a major foundation for pretty much any strength training program. Whether you’re training for muscle growth, absolute strength, power, or physique, the squat is a one-stop exercise ... Continue Reading
Dirty Bulking Explained — Drawbacks, Benefits, and What You Should Know
Nutritional trends rise and fall in the fitness industry. It’s easy to get caught up in the current or enamored with the hype of a dietary trend — even if said idea doesn’t stand up to scientific ... Continue Reading
These Are the Five Best Stability Ball Workouts for Supporting Your Fitness Goals
How do you like to train? Some are in love with the barbell, others enjoy working with just their body. But why limit yourself to one type of exercise, or one piece of equipment? From time to time, it pays ... Continue Reading
Use the Hammer Strength® Row to Nail Your Back Workouts
Most commercial gyms come with a wide assortment of exercise machines. If you’re brand new to lifting weights, so many options can certainly be intimidating. You need to know which stations will serve your ... Continue Reading
The 15 Best Deadlift Accessory Exercises for a More Powerful Pull
The deadlift — your favorite go-to for building strength and muscle across your whole body. This move forms the basis of many other weightlifting exercises like the snatch and clean. Improving your ... Continue Reading
How to Properly Order Exercises During Your Workout
You probably learned about “PEMDAS” in school as a mnemonic device for completing an arithmetic problem. If math wasn’t your favorite subject, fret not — you don’t need to be a wizard to work out how to ... Continue Reading
Do the Incline Dumbbell Curl to Double Down on Your Arm Gains
Your arm workouts aren’t supposed to be a walk in the park. Growing your guns takes focus, grit, work ethic, and, maybe more than anything, the right exercises. By its very design, the incline dumbbell ... Continue Reading
Does the Angle of an Exercise Actually Matter?
In your lifting journey, you’ve almost certainly seen someone bench pressing from a decline, neutral, or incline bench. You’re probably also familiar with snatch-grip deadlifts or changing grips on your ... Continue Reading
How to Do the Close-Grip Pulldown — Variations, Benefits, and More
Pulldowns, pull-ups, row horizontally, row while standing upright, row while inverted. Your back is one of the most versatile muscle groups you have…but that doesn’t necessarily make optimal lat training ... Continue Reading
20 High-Protein Dinners for Busy Weeknights
Key Takeaways The best way to hit your macros might be to engage in an hour or two of food prep on Sunday, but let's be honest — this doesn’t always happen. As much as we all hope for a break on the ... Continue Reading
Try These Cable Back Workouts for Massive Muscle Growth
Your back offers such a huge amount of real estate to play with — add cable machines to the mix and you’re in for a grand old time. No two bodies are alike, and this individuality between you and ... Continue Reading
The 9 Best Air Bike Workouts for Every Experience Level
What's your favorite form of cardio? Running is all well and good, and there's a lot of fun to be had with a good barbell complex — but these are far from your only options in the gym. The air bike will ... Continue Reading
So, How Long Should Your Workouts Last?
You probably don’t have all morning (or afternoon) to spend in the weight room, out on the track, or in the yoga studio — even if there’s nowhere else you’d rather be. Balancing your workouts with ... Continue Reading
8 Natural Fat Burners
Let’s get one thing straight: Foods and supplements that get labeled as “fat burners” are not magic and will not make a significant change without you making changes to your diet and lifestyle. ... Continue Reading