If there’s one thing smart athletes like to talk about, it’s fascia. Long undervalued and overlooked it’s a hugely important, fascinating, and misunderstood network of connective tissue that extends from ... Continue Reading
Reverse Lunge Exercise Guide
The reverse lunge is a unilateral exercise than can be used to build strength, muscle hypertrophy, and enhance movement mechanics for strength, power, and fitness athletes. While most athletes spend a good ... Continue Reading
Transparent Labs Stim-Free Pre-Workout Review – Is Anything Missing?
Transparent Labs is making some pretty serious waves in the supplement industry, and not just because their products are all free from artificial ingredients. This is the kind of company that takes ... Continue Reading
Why Do I Yawn When I Lift?
You’re psyched up. You’ve had pre-workout coffee, jogged up a sweat, mobilized, done your warm-up sets, hit your working weight, and after your first working set… you yawn. Shake it off. Another set. ... Continue Reading
GrubSub Meal Replacement Review – Too Much Iron?
GrubSub was started by biochemistry major Jesus Flores and two friends he met while studying at the California State University of Fullerton, and the product differentiates itself a little bit from other ... Continue Reading
Ample V Review – Does the Vegan Version Taste As Good?
Ample is one of the rising stars in the world of meal replacements, partly because all of their products are made with all-natural foods, but we'll be honest, the fact that their high fat content makes for ... Continue Reading
Queal Review – Can a Meal Replacement Taste Like Apple Pie?
Queal is a Dutch company and the name is short for "quick meal." It comes in several varieties including high protein, low calorie, and vegan, plus they sell bars and nootropics as well. The company is ... Continue Reading
5 Benefits of the Glute Bridge
Glute training is key for increasing posterior chain strength, power, and performance. While many strength, power, and fitness athletes spend most of their weight training performing squats, deadlifts, ... Continue Reading
Do Compression Boots Actually Do Anything?
If you’ve been a fan of CrossFit for some time, there’s a good chance you’ve seen someone like Annie Thorisdottir or Noah Ohlsen lounging on a chair in a pair of enormous, electric trousers. Of all the ... Continue Reading
Dynamic Warm-Up for Weightlifting
Olympic weightlifting is a very explosive sport that requires strength, mobility, timing, confidence, and precision. Often, we only read about training programs, exercise variations, and recovery ... Continue Reading
How German Volume Training Can Add Muscle to Your Frame
Building muscle takes a lot of time and dedication — it’s not quite as easy as Hollywood makes it seem. Most people understand this when they step into a gym for the first time. Yet undoubtedly there’s ... Continue Reading
Is a High Protein Diet Really Bad for Your Kidneys?
If there’s one thing popular opinion is good at, it’s scaring you off of doing healthy things. If it’s not mid-20th century doctors warning that lifting weights would lead to heart problems and low sex ... Continue Reading
The Surprising Benefits of Salt for Strength Athletes
Sodium is a lot more useful for strength and performance than you’ve been told. If you’re a fan of strongman, you might have seen Brian Shaw pouring many, many times the recommended daily intake of salt ... Continue Reading
Klokov Press vs Military Press
Shoulder training is key for better performance in weightlifting, powerlifting, strongman, and competitive fitness sports. When determining which exercises to perform to build strength and muscle mass ... Continue Reading
GNC Women’s Ultra Mega Energy & Metabolism Review
Women's Ultra Mega Energy & Metabolism is a women’s multivitamin that is made by the well-known vitamin company GNC (chances are you’ve found yourself shopping for supplements and powders there once or ... Continue Reading
Klokov Press – Muscles Worked, Exercise Demo, and Benefits
Overhead strength and muscle mass necessary to snatch heavy loads is often something that lifters struggle with. The Klokov press, named after Dmitry Klokov, is an accessory lift that can build serious ... Continue Reading
5 Benefits of Standing Calf Raises
In this article we will discuss the key benefits of the standing calf raise for most strength, power, and fitness athletes. In this previous standing calf raise guide, we offered coaches and athletes calf ... Continue Reading
Standing Calf Raise – Muscles Worked and Benefits
Calf training is something rarely discussed by strength, power, and fitness athletes and coaches. Many coaches conclude that isolated calf training is not an effective usage of a lifter’s training time, ... Continue Reading
3 Reasons Why Upright Rows Are Bad
In an earlier article we discussed the upright row and how it can be a favorable training exercise for strength, power, and fitness athletes looking to increase movement specific strength (Olympic ... Continue Reading
Glycogen Depletion – Signs and Symptoms
In an earlier article we took a very deep look at what glycogen is, the benefits it can provide strength, power, and fitness athletes, and how you can maximize its ergogenic effects. Sometimes, however, an ... Continue Reading
What Is Glycogen and How Does it Help Build Muscle?
The inclusion of carbohydrate supplementation post-workout and/or during strenuous training sessions has repeatedly been shown to increase muscle glycogen levels, enhance protein synthesis, and increased ... Continue Reading
More Legs, More Protein: Why You Really Should Eat Insects
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that at least two billion people worldwide regularly consume insects, which is to say that it’s weird but not that weird.(1) Humans, after ... Continue Reading
Reverse Band Box Squat – Muscles Worked and Benefits
Band training is an advanced technique often to increase strength, neural drive, and rate of force development for more advanced strength athletes/lifters. One method of of band training is the reverse ... Continue Reading
Could a Stronger Grip Suggest Higher Cognitive Functioning?
You can tell a lot by an athlete's hand, and no, I'm not referencing palm reading or any other form of visual assessment that make claims based upon...uh...science. In this article, I'm referencing ... Continue Reading