When your roadmap is clearly laid out and you've got the right plan in your pocket, getting or staying in shape isn't as hard as you think. Whether you want to put on some new muscle or add plates to your ... Continue Reading
The Best Dumbbell Chest Workouts for Beginners, Strength, and More
Gym rats the world over are constantly on the hunt for the best ways to build an impressive set of pecs. Dumbbell exercises are a staple for many muscle groups — and luckily, the chest is no different. ... Continue Reading
The Best Bodyweight Workouts for Muscle, Beginners, Mobility, and More
Whether you don’t have access to a gym or want to spice up your training routine, consider bodyweight training. It might not seem like much compared to tossing a loaded barbell on your back, but training ... Continue Reading
The Best Core Workouts for Strength, Muscle, and Power
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
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
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
4 Ways to Mimic a Sauna for Optimal Recovery
If heat exposure is a staple in your recovery routine, or if you’d like it to be, you might not need access to a sauna or steam room. There is always a way to mimic the benefits of daily sauna sessions. ... Continue Reading
The Top Five Recovery Mistakes CrossFitters Make
Many people begin CrossFit as a path to managing their mental health. Physical activity has a host of mental health benefits, including potentially reducing anxiety and depression. However, recovery ... Continue Reading
All the Different Gym Germs You Should Know
If you have any experience with deadlifting, then you know how much it sucks when the knurling clips your shins, especially if you forget to wear your deadlift socks. Knicked shins don't just hurt, but ... Continue Reading
Adaptive Athlete Joe Micco’s Message: Don’t Just Accept Your Prognosis
It was 2011: Joe Micco was 27 and had his whole life ahead of him. A former college and professional football player, Micco had just accepted a coaching position in the Arena Football League, and was ... Continue Reading
Stop Making These 4 Common Lunge Mistakes (Plus How to Fix Them!)
If we had to line up every lower body exercise in a row and pick them out from best to worst based on usefulness and effectiveness, the lunge would easily make it in the top three if not place number ... Continue Reading
Exercising Together Is This CrossFit Family’s Secret Weapon for Social Distancing
Like many CrossFit affiliates and other gyms, Sherman Merricks, the owner of Dynasty CrossFit in Gainesville, Florida, temporarily closed his doors last week. But this hasn’t stopped Merricks, his wife ... Continue Reading
When Bodybuilding Met Wrestling: The Bizarre Tale of the World Bodybuilding Federation
The recent rebirth of the XFL has reminded the sporting world that Vince McMahon, a man synonymous with World Wrestling Entertainment, is a man of many interests. Given his larger than life TV persona, ... Continue Reading
Deadlifting for Strength Vs. Size: Small Form Tweaks for BIG Lat Growth
So, if you’ve been keeping up with my articles so far, you know that one of the most important aspects of training for aesthetic development requires strengthening the muscle, not the movement. You can ... Continue Reading
7 Beginner Friendly Core and Oblique Exercises
Building a strong and functional core is essential for every lifter and athlete. Regardless of training age, ability level, and goals, there are a few key exercises that every beginner should master. In ... Continue Reading
At-Home Dumbbell Workouts for Powerlifters, Weightlifters, and More
At-home training can be tricky, especially if you don't have the right equipment, tools, and/or loading. For more serious lifters, gaining maximal strength, muscle mass, and sports performance ... Continue Reading
2 Glute Workouts for More Mass and Stronger Lifts
Sure, you can build stronger glutes with movements like back squats, deadlifts, and kettlebell swings can be powerful glute mass-building exercises, a dedicated, and often more isolated approach to glute ... Continue Reading
What Exercises Are Best for Weight Lifting Belts?
When reaching for the best weight lifting belt in your gym bag, what exercises signal the need to use one? Are they movements that you feel a belt benefits, movements that warrant a belt's use based off of ... Continue Reading
Will the Rogue Fitness .50 Cal Trolley Change the Power Rack Game?
With an undying love for barbell sports, comes an undying love for lifting equipment. At times with lifting equipment, it can seem like you don't really need something, until you see it. The next item ... 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
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
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