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
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
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
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
How to Properly Order Exercises During Your Workout
You probably learned about “PEMDAS” in school as a mnemonic device for completing an arithmetic problem. If math wasn’t your favorite subject, fret not — you don’t need to be a wizard to work out how to ... Continue Reading
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
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
So, How Long Should Your Workouts Last?
You probably don’t have all morning (or afternoon) to spend in the weight room, out on the track, or in the yoga studio — even if there’s nowhere else you’d rather be. Balancing your workouts with ... Continue Reading
The Tom Platz Leg Workout for Building an Unbelievable Lower Body
Who has the best legs in bodybuilding history? Pose that question to your gym partner for any other muscle group — does Schwarzenegger still hold the chest day crown? Is Coleman an apex predator from the ... Continue Reading
10 Lat Pulldown Alternatives for Building Your Back
The lat pulldown is one of the most staple back exercises most people have in their workout routines. Whether you use it to train for strength or muscle mass, if your gym has a lat pulldown station (and it ... Continue Reading
7 Household Items That Double as Fitness Equipment
The gym is way out there, and you’re not leaving your living room any time soon. Maybe you’re watching the kids, or maybe your car’s in the shop. Whatever the case may be, sometimes bodyweight-only ... Continue Reading
The Best Full-Body Bodybuilding Workout for Beginner to Advanced Lifters
You can flex your biceps, spread your lats, or stomp your quads all you want, but as a bodybuilder, your physique isn’t presented in isolation. It’s part of a comprehensive package. You can’t just omit ... Continue Reading
Use Bodybuilder Dorian Yates’ Chest Workout to Become a Mass Monster
Six-time Mr. Olympia champion Dorian Yates wants you to train harder. Harder than whatever image of yourself in the gym you just conjured up in your head. Yates, who reigned over professional ... Continue Reading
5 Full-Body Dumbbell Workouts for All Lifters
When you make your way into a crowded gym, the dumbbell rack might be the first thing you head toward — especially if people are already in the squat rack. But dumbbells don’t have to be your runner-up ... Continue Reading
8-Time Mr. Olympia Lee Haney’s Back Workout Explained
Every bodybuilder has their own approach to physique development — it’s one of the most charming aspects of the sport. On stage, bodybuilders are judged by the same criteria, but how they choose to meet ... Continue Reading
The Best Back and Biceps Workouts for Building Muscle and Strength at Any Experience Level
Building out your first bodybuilding program can be a fun game of “how much do I have to do to get ripped?” Many new lifters find themselves stuck down the rabbit hole — painstakingly trying to figure out ... Continue Reading
Most Popular Celebrity Workouts in the U.S. in 2022
Even if we don’t like to admit it, celebrities have an impact on our lives. Whether it’s their '90s fashion reboot or their favorite green tea supplement, many of us keep an eye on the rich and famous in ... Continue Reading
Hammer Your Hamstrings and Quads With Bodybuilder Shaun Clarida’s Intense Leg Workout
Shaun Clarida is looking to regain his 212 Olympia crown after finishing in second place behind Derek Lunsford in 2021. To display that he’s as dialed in as ever, "The Giant Killer" posted a blistering leg ... Continue Reading
Build a Pair of Bulging Quads With Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s Leg Workout
When most people want to unwind, they reach for a good book, go on a hike, or scroll social media until they fall asleep. For Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, decompression comes in the form of a brutal ... Continue Reading
4-Time Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler’s Bodybuilding Chest Workout (and How to Scale it)
A bodybuilder’s chest is their calling card. There may be more individually impressive muscles — they say physique shows are won from the back, for example — but when you see a bodybuilder walking out ... Continue Reading
Try This Kettlebell Workout for Unique Arm Growth
Kettlebells give you the opportunity to put your entire body to the test by simply changing your implement of choice. While they’re extremely well known for specialty exercises such as kettlebell swings or ... Continue Reading
A Look at 8-Time Mr. Olympia Ronnie Coleman’s Back Workout
“Light weight, baby!” cries bodybuilder Ronnie Coleman, right before he picks up some of the most jaw-droppingly heavy lifts you can imagine from a physique athlete. If you've ever seen any of iconic ... Continue Reading
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Arm Workout, Explained and Remixed for All Experience Levels
A bodybuilder’s arms are their calling card. You could make a case for other muscles being more important in the eyes of a judge at a physique show, but nothing drops jaws and turns heads like a pair of ... Continue Reading
The Best Bodyweight Bodybuilding Workouts for Gaining Muscle
The 1977 documentary Pumping Iron is chock-full of footage of bodybuilders like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Franco Columbu preparing for the 1975 Mr. Olympia competition. There’s a lot of on-screen clanging ... Continue Reading