In a way, the barbell epitomizes what weight lifting is at its core, and with good reason. After all, it is the implement through which most exercises in competitive strength sports are tested. On top of ... Continue Reading
12 Fitness Tips to Start Your Journey Right
Starting anything new can be scary, especially when you feel like unknowns exist around every corner. Luckily, fitness doesn’t have to be the metaphorical monster under the bed for first-time fitness ... Continue Reading
The Best Cardio Workouts at Home to Boost Your Fitness Without a Treadmill
Cardiovascular exercise will generally work your entire body. But it’s also going to emphasize an oft-overlooked and incredibly important muscle: your heart. Let’s face it — if you’re a heavy lifter, ... Continue Reading
The Best Bench Press Workouts for Your Experience Level
There are certain exercises that live in your program for what seems like forever. Some progress easily or have a lot of variations that help delivering gains. Others feel like they slow to a crawl but you ... Continue Reading
The Best Dumbbell Ab Workout for Every Experience Level
Many people are in search of great ab workouts for one reason or anything. While some people want to do an ab workout because they are looking for sculpted abs, others want to increase their core strength ... Continue Reading
How Much Does a Barbell Weigh?
An average conversation between strength sports enthusiasts often includes questions about numbers: How much do you bench? What’s your one-rep max with the clean & jerk? Answering those questions isn’t ... Continue Reading
The Best Full-Body Kettlebell Workout, Scaled for Every Experience Level
For your next workout, if you’re looking for a way to target every major muscle group in a time crunch, look no further than the versatility of the kettlebell. With the kettlebell, your next full-body ... Continue Reading
How to Do 100 Push-ups a Day, Advice and Programming from a CPT
The push-up is one of the most fascinating exercises in the world. On the one hand, It’s so challenging that one-third of a survey conducted on 1,400 Americans believed they’d struggle to complete just ... Continue Reading
A Couch to 5K Training Plan for Strength Athletes of Different Experience Levels
In the 2010 film The Fighter, real-life boxing champion Micky Ward accepts a fight with the much heavier Mike Mungin after being assured that Mungin is out of shape and “just got off the couch.” When ... Continue Reading
How Many Steps in a Mile? Calculate by Height and Pace
Since the advent of the pedometer, people have been counting their steps to maintain a healthy body weight and improve cardiovascular fitness. But thanks to the rise of smartphones and smartwatches, which, ... Continue Reading
The Best Chest and Triceps Workout, Scaled for Every Experience Level
When you think of organizing yourself a body part split, your chest and triceps seem to just…fit. They’re so inseparable that many of the most popular splits will inevitably have you train them ... Continue Reading
The Murph CrossFit Workout, Explained and Scaled for Every Experience Level
Every Memorial Day, CrossFitters emerge from their boxes ready to rumble. Totaling a two-mile journey — plus 600 bodyweight reps while wearing a weighted vest — the Murph CrossFit workout will challenge ... Continue Reading
These Are the Best Biceps Cable Workouts You Can Do
Everyone loves training arms. Biceps workouts can be a standalone session during which you attack a weakness in your physique, or the carrot-on-a-stick to finish your upper-body day. In any case, cables ... Continue Reading
The CrossFit Nancy Workout, Explained and Scaled for Every Skill Level
You didn’t sign up for your local CrossFit gym just so you could go running. CrossFit is about a diverse array of training styles and techniques, not just pounding the pavement. But just because this sport ... Continue Reading
The CrossFit Karen Workout, Explained and Scaled for Every Skill Level
You can’t talk about powerlifting workouts without mentioning the deadlift. And what are strongman competitions without some type of stone event? In CrossFit, the name of the game is unpredictability — but ... Continue Reading
Try This Biceps Workout With Dumbbells for Superior Muscle Growth
There are more arm workouts out there than you could possibly know what to do with. Workouts that swear up and down that you’ll move up a shirt size before you know it, or that you’ll soon have biceps that ... Continue Reading
The CrossFit Grace Workout Explained and Scaled for Every Skill Level
Sometimes, even the most dedicated CrossFitters want to get in and out of the gym as quickly as humanly possible. Enter a benchmark workout truly designed for speed: Grace. The CrossFit Grace workout is ... Continue Reading
The Ultimate Push-Pull-Legs Workout Split for Every Experience Level
The success of your training often depends on time management. You’ll need to target a tremendous amount of muscle mass in a well-balanced program. Because you’ve got a lot of ground to cover, finding the ... Continue Reading
What Is Unilateral Training and Does it Really Fix Imbalances?
The last time you fought through a heavy bench press, you might have noticed one side of your body fighting harder than the other to lock out. That precarious tilt of the barbell is a prime indicator of a ... Continue Reading
This Is Layne Norton’s PHAT Training, Explained
The absolute best way to grow muscle, get strong, or become more powerful is routinely up for debate within fitness circles worldwide. Everyone seems to have their preferred method. Between personal ... Continue Reading
What Are Workout Splits? Top 3 Most Effective Routines
When you walk into a gym, do you have an idea of what you’re going to do, or do you find the first empty station and start pumping out reps? It should probably be the former. Whether your goal is to build ... Continue Reading
How to Do the Single-Arm Chest Flye for Proportional Pec Gains
All the best chest exercises involve both arms: the barbell bench press, the incline dumbbell press, the dumbbell flye, the cable flye, and even the humble — but underrated — push-up. On the other hand, ... Continue Reading
The Best CrossFit Workouts for Building Muscle to Forge Bigger, Stronger Muscles
Your favorite CrossFit athletes are absurdly jacked. They might not be on stage posing, but they're built like they could be. With CrossFit, the goal may not be to look a certain way — but all those ... Continue Reading
This Is the Ultimate Chest and Biceps Workout for Muscle and Strength
The chest and biceps are two of the most coveted muscle groups of any physique. Although they are typically separated into distinct days (either a bro split or push-pull-legs), they’re one of the most ... Continue Reading