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Bodybuilding Lore Addressed: Can You Actually Target Your Inner Chest?

Bodybuilding is an art form. Where the sculptor carves and chips detailed works of art from stone or clay, the physique enthusiast strives to bring forth every last striation in every muscle across their ... Continue Reading

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Try These Cable Arm Workouts to Build Massive Bis and Tris

A dedicated arm day just hits different. Arm workouts may be a little less mentally taxing than a hard squat session but a true gun run can leave you feeling just as great. Walking away with a sweet pump ... Continue Reading

Cable Ab Workouts

Try These Cable Ab Workouts to Crush Your Core

The gym offers a diverse selection of training tools to suit your needs. You can make some serious gains using calisthenics, but there’s also free weights, machines, and even cables at your disposal — yet ... Continue Reading

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Your Guide to Creating Fitness Goals — And How to Crush Them

Have you invested hours at the gym hoping to look like the Hulk, but the only growth you have seen is in your ponytail or beard? Even though you might be eager to have raised veins sprawling through your ... Continue Reading

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These 11 Tips Will Help You Crush Your First Workout

Congratulations on taking the plunge: Getting started on your first fitness routine can be your catalyst to improving your health, physical abilities, and overall well-being — but it can also be a bit ... Continue Reading

Cable Chest Workouts

Try These Cable Chest Workouts on Your Next Chest Day

From push-ups to bench pressing, there’s a high probability that you’ll see some serious pectoral fixation every Monday at the gym. Each lifter has their own routine for when international chest day comes ... Continue Reading

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Your Complete Guide to Bodyweight Training

The first image that comes to mind when you think about getting stronger may well be of barbells and going hard in the squat rack. That’s certainly one way to do it. You can also get absurdly strong with ... Continue Reading

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These Are the Best Home Gym Back Workouts for Bodybuilding

Weight rooms are made for making muscle. They provide more tools than you could (probably) ever use to help craft the physique of your bodybuilding dreams. Unfortunately, unless there’s a cot tucked away ... Continue Reading

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Buying A Treadmill? Here’s Everything You Need To Know

A common question people ask when looking to add a new piece of equipment to their home gym is, “Which one is the best?” That’s certainly no different when it comes to treadmills, ... Continue Reading

Brandon Lilly's Cube Method

Brandon Lilly’s Cube Method, Explained and Unpacked 

Powerlifting can be a game of attrition. Without the right program, you may be predisposed to overuse, aches and pains, and even boredom. Brandon Lilly’s “Cube Method” was designed to reinvigorate your ... Continue Reading

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Try These Cable Biceps Workouts for Different Experience Levels

Building a pair of bulging biceps is the dream of many a lifter, from total gym newbies all the way through advanced lifters from all strength sports. There’s something culturally alluring about that ... Continue Reading

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Is Running or Rowing Better for Strength Athletes?

It’s time to get your cardio game face on. Whether you want to get your blood pumping for an active recovery day or are trying to create a cardio routine to supplement your strength training, you’ve got to ... Continue Reading

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7 At-Work Stretches to Boost Your Gym Performance

Mobility workouts might be less glamorous than slinging around heavy barbells. But just because daily stretching isn't quite as Instagram-worthy as stunning tandem weightlifting feats, mobility training is ... Continue Reading

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7 Ways to Move More During the Day to Improve Results in the Gym

You go as hard as you can in the gym. But even if you train multiple times a week with hour-long sessions, you’re still spending the overwhelming majority of your time not working out. If you want what’s ... Continue Reading

Compound Exercises

Compound Exercises Explained: How to Make Big Gains With Big Lifts

The fitness industry is absolutely packed with jargon. Some of which can be pretty easy to understand, even for a newcomer. After all, it’s easy enough to know what someone is getting at when they say ... Continue Reading

First Weightlifting Workout

8 Quick Tips to Help You Nail Your First Weightlifting Workout

Congratulations are in order; you found your way to weightlifting. Whether by seeing someone slam and stomp in your local gym or by scrolling through your Explore feed, your eyes fell upon someone ... Continue Reading

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What Are Giant Sets and How to Use Them for Increased Work Capacity and Strength

When it comes to chasing down your training goals, you have a lot of options for making gains. Giant sets are used by general gymgoers and competitive strength athletes in very specific ways to get ... Continue Reading

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Try These 5 Hotel Room Workouts to Stay Fit on the Road

Even for the most disciplined athletes, the best-laid workout programs can fall to the wayside by travel. Whether you’re on the go because of the holidays, work, or something else entirely, it’s easy — and ... Continue Reading

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What is the Suicide Grip and Is it Safe?

When you’re training with barbells, there are a lot of factors to keep track of. You need to check in with yourself about your stance, your posture, and your bar path. One of these critical factors is your ... Continue Reading

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How to Do the Triceps Kickback for Thicker Arms and a Stronger Lockout

Your bench press has stalled, and your overhead press just won’t lock out — no matter how much you try. When you reach a certain level in your training, chest and shoulder strength just aren’t going to cut ... Continue Reading

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Here’s How to Train Like a Superhero

Strength sports aren’t easy. Training for powerlifting, strongman, weightlifting, CrossFit, or bodybuilding is all tough. So why do any of it? Many athletes might tell you they started training because ... Continue Reading

stability ball workouts

These Are the Five Best Stability Ball Workouts for Supporting Your Fitness Goals

How do you like to train? Some are in love with the barbell, others enjoy working with just their body. But why limit yourself to one type of exercise, or one piece of equipment? From time to time, it pays ... Continue Reading

cable back workouts

Try These Cable Back Workouts for Massive Muscle Growth

Your back offers such a huge amount of real estate to play with — add cable machines to the mix and you’re in for a grand old time.  No two bodies are alike, and this individuality between you and ... Continue Reading

air bike workouts

The 9 Best Air Bike Workouts for Every Experience Level

What's your favorite form of cardio? Running is all well and good, and there's a lot of fun to be had with a good barbell complex — but these are far from your only options in the gym. The air bike will ... Continue Reading

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