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
Active Recovery Explained — How to Make Gains While Resting
Active recovery days are the golden ticket for many top athletes. Healing from intense workouts is not just about ice baths and deep tissue massages, or taking care of your nutrition or sleep habits. But ... Continue Reading
These Researchers Reveal the Right Way to Train for More Muscle Mass
When it comes to gaining muscle, everything your local gym bro told you is right. Ok, that's not entirely true, but a position paper from the International Universities Strength and Conditioning ... Continue Reading
Give Planks a Rest. Try the L-Sit for Core Strength and Stability
Anytime you walk into a gym, there’s a good chance that you’ll see someone performing a plank. Chances are you’ve done one too. Maybe you’re getting bored with the same core exercises, so if you’re looking ... Continue Reading
Turn Your Core Training Up a Notch With the Russian Twist
If you are looking for a core exercise that can help you increase rotational stability and athletic performance, Russian twists are for you. The Russian twist is a core training staple that is popular in ... Continue Reading
The Ultimate Guide to Building Your Own Bodybuilding Workout Plan
From cannonball delts to cut abs, an impressive physique is the proverbial pie in the sky for every gym rat who hits the iron to look good. However, knowing where you want to go is much easier than ... Continue Reading
How to Perform the Perfect Weighted Pull-Up
Weighted pull-ups are a fantastic expression of full-body strength, coordination, and upper body stability. As a result, pull-ups are common fixtures in many well-rounded training routines. However, by ... Continue Reading
Utilize the Hang Snatch for Pulling Power and Strength Gains
Anyone who is interested in developing real power will want the Olympic lifts in their program. The hang snatch is a snatch variation that is popular among Olympic weightlifters, competitive fitness ... Continue Reading
Natural Testosterone Boosters to Help You Stay Energized and Healthy
When most people think testosterone, they think huge muscles, better workouts, and an enhanced sex drive, and look: that’s all true. Testosterone plays a significant role in muscle mass, bone strength, and ... Continue Reading
Muscle Atrophy Explained — How to Bounce Back From Time Off
The worst nightmare of any lifter — an injury, illness, or ill-timed vacation that sidelines you from your training. If you’ve ever taken a couple of weeks or months off from your workout program, you ... Continue Reading
Perfect the Chin-Up for Upper Body Strength and Full Body Control
When it comes to building a serious set of arms (and a monstrous back), few exercises can offer the strength and muscle hypertrophy stimulus as the chin-up. The chin-up, when included as part of a balanced ... Continue Reading
The Best Lower Body Workouts for Strength, Fat Loss, Muscle Growth, and More
No matter what kind of training split you prefer, your program is going to need a couple of solid leg days. It’s not for nothing that two of three powerlifts are lower body-focused. And without a strong ... Continue Reading
Push/Pull Workouts Can Take Your Training Up a Notch
You’ve probably heard of upper body/lower body splits, or you might still be on a muscle group-based split ever since you learned about them in high school gym class. But if you’ve never tried a push/pull ... Continue Reading
Master the Clean & Press to Improve Strength, Power, & Build Muscle
Going fast is cool, being strong is great. But combining them into one movement can make your training more than the sum of its parts. The clean & press takes the explosive, kinetic power of ... Continue Reading
How To Stay Hydrated While Working Out (Brought to You by Kaged Muscle)
Training can be intense. Whether building strength under the barbell or testing your heart rate on a bike or the pavement, breaking a sweat is inevitable. Or rather, losing water is inevitable. However, ... Continue Reading
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
Get a Leg Up On Your Training With These 8 Exercises for Balance & Stability
Balance is an aspect of fitness that tends to go overlooked until it’s too late. Most people spend time trying to put on size, add pounds to their bar in the big lifts, or finally see visible abs. For ... Continue Reading
Add Supersets to Your Training to Make More Gains in Less Time
Supersets have been a staple of the weight lifting community for years. Ever since the days of Schwarzenegger’s reign in bodybuilding, gym rats all over the world have been taking inspiration from his ... Continue Reading
Should Powerlifters and Bodybuilders Try Carb Cycling?
A diet or training plan suitable for someone looking to lose weight may not be good for those looking to pack on muscle — but is that the case with carb cycling? The practice of alternating high- and ... Continue Reading
Get Lean, Get Strong, and Get Fast With the Yoke Walk
The yoke walk is a popular strongman event that has the athlete support a yoke, loaded with lots of weight, on his or her back, and then run with it for time. It’s incredibly simple to do but requires a ... Continue Reading
Drill the Drop Snatch to Level Up Your Weightlifting Performance
If you’re a recreational — or competitive — weightlifter, you probably have a need for speed. The ability to fly under a heavy bar is absolutely essential to performing well in the Olympic ... Continue Reading
Should You Follow the Ketogenic Diet While Strength Training?
Anyone in the strength sports world who isn’t training in a cave has surely heard of the keto diet. You know, the diet that lets you eat all the bacon and avocado that you can stomach while shedding fat, ... Continue Reading
How to Use the RPE Scale for Effective Strength Gains
You’ve seen it in training templates. You’ve heard athletes mutter it to their coaches in the gym after an intense-looking set. You’ve probably even seen memes about it on strength-specific social media ... Continue Reading
Active Stretches Explained — Science-Backed Selections for Optimal Recovery & Performance
Stretching seems to frequently fall in and out of favor in the fitness world. Much of the discourse surrounding stretching as a viable — or wasteful, depending on who you ask — practice comes from ... Continue Reading