Here’s a fact nobody ever likes to hear: All your hard work in the gym is meaningless if you don’t have proper pre- and post-workout nutrition. The nutrients you provide your body will determine how long ... Continue Reading
How to Do Dips: Proper Form & Variations
If you want to develop serious upper body strength, drive muscle growth, and improve your lockout performance in the bench press, there is one lift to rule them all — the dip. This is a simple movement ... Continue Reading
6 Core Exercises That Will Improve Your Squat and Deadlift
The squat and deadlift have a lot in common. They're both compound movements that build a lot of muscle, strength, and grit. They also both require a tremendous amount of core strength. These two movements ... Continue Reading
Get Strong and Bust Through Sticking Points With the Half Squat
Half squats are thought to be a gym sin carried out by either weak or lazy squatters that can't or don't want to hit depth. Full-depth squats are indeed ideal for building leg muscle, improving squat ... Continue Reading
Use Pause Squats to Skyrocket Your Leg Strength and Size
The squat is considered the king of all movements, and it’s one of the most important exercises to master for any lifter or athlete. It’s a lower-body exercise that engages the largest muscle in your body ... Continue Reading
Build Big Traps and Strengthen Your Lifts With Shrugs
Well-developed traps don’t only make you look jacked. They also play a crucial role in deadlifting, squatting, carrying, and in the Olympic lifts. The shrug is an excellent exercise for building the traps. ... Continue Reading
5 Travel Workouts to Keep You Fit On the Go
You might be out of town for a business event or to visit your family for the first time in who knows how long. Or, you might be out on an actual vacation. Whatever your reason for being off somewhere ... Continue Reading
The 5 Best Foam Roller Exercises for Strength (Yes, Strength)
You know the foam roller as a pre-and post-workout tool that loosens your muscle fascia, speeds up muscle recovery, and allows for enhanced mobility. It is, but over the years, creative strength coaches ... Continue Reading
Everything You Need to Know About Mass Gainers
Bold claims and lofty promises are a hallmark of the supplement industry today. From fat burners to pre-workouts, many products promise to deliver extraordinary results in a timely manner, from “shredding ... Continue Reading
12 Science-Backed Benefits of Squats You Should Know About
We don't need to tell you that the squat is worth doing, but there are probably more benefits to doing squats than you're aware of. For one, squatting is a movement pattern we engage in daily — like when ... Continue Reading
Cluster Sets Are the Intensity Booster Your Workouts Need
There are multiple workout variables to take into account when it comes to improving power, strength, and size. Possibly the biggest variable when aiming to accomplish one of them or all of the goals is ... Continue Reading
Do the Suitcase Deadlift For a Strong Grip and More Muscle
The suitcase deadlift — where you perform a deadlift with one side of your body loaded — is more useful than you may think. First, think about how often you carry something in one hand, be it a bag of ... Continue Reading
Why The Home Gym Craze Is Here To Stay (Brought to You by Tempo)
There are many reasons to own a home gym — convenience, cleanliness, and affordability all come to mind. Of course, that’s always been the case. The desire to stay at home for a workout is even stronger ... Continue Reading
How to Program for CrossFit Athletes Returning After a Break
As vaccinations roll out, more and more people are feeling comfortable returning to their local CrossFit gym. Many of these people, however, have had severely altered training habits for the last year or ... Continue Reading
6 Chest Exercises Without Weights That Build Size and Strength
Push-ups are the green beans of your chest day. You know the full-body control, stability, and core strength to be gained from what is essentially a moving plank are next to none. Still, they're not nearly ... Continue Reading
Omega 3 Benefits — More Muscle, Better Recovery, and Enhanced Endurance
“Eat more fish.” It’s the resounding chorus from just about every doctor and nutritionist out there. And no wonder: There have been literally thousands of studies published since the early 1970s showing ... Continue Reading
Use the Snatch Balance to Perfect Your Timing and Speed
Perfecting the snatch takes time, dedication, and a highly detailed approach to addressing technical faults and weaknesses. One exercise that can drastically enhance a weightlifter's, CrossFit athlete's, ... Continue Reading
Make the Most Out Of Leg Day With the Best Leg Exercises for Mass
Big legs serve two primary purposes: First, they prevent you from looking like a pair of pecs on stilts. Second, they support the massive weights that strength athletes like powerlifters are known for ... Continue Reading
Strongman Robert Oberst’s Tips For How to Be an Elite Log Lifter
2021 World's Strongest Man competitor Robert Oberst is one of the best in the sport when it comes to overhead events. As a former American log lift record holder, he knows his way around cleans and ... Continue Reading
5 No-Equipment Back Exercises That You Can Do Anywhere
When you want to strengthen your back but there's no equipment in sight, all can feel lost. Without the weight of barbells, kettlebells, or dumbbells in your hands — let alone a pull-up bar — it may ... Continue Reading
The Jefferson Squat is an Old-Time Exercise That Builds Supreme Leg Size
The Jefferson squat is a unique squat variation that can increase leg strength, size, core stability, and build power in multiple planes of movement. Named after circus strongman Charles Jefferson ... Continue Reading
Use CrossFit Open Results to Improve Your Programming and Fitness Routine
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” -Marcus Aurelius The 2021 CrossFit Open has come to a close, and now we’re faced with our leaderboard positioning, an ... Continue Reading
The Ultimate Guide on How to Choose a Barbell
Buying a quality barbell is a pricey investment that you want to last for a long time. You also need to make sure that you’re buying the right barbell for the task at hand. After all, the barbell is the ... Continue Reading
Yes, Office Workouts Are a Thing — Here’s What You Need to Know
There's never a bad time to move. Well, maybe that's not entirely true, but more movement is usually not a bad thing. And considering that the average workday is eight hours long, many folks may not be ... Continue Reading