Size matters not...except for when it does. Y3T, or "Yoda-3-Training", is the brainchild of renowned bodybuilding coach Neil "Yoda" Hill. Hill — whose coaching pedigree contains names like Flex Lewis, ... Continue Reading
Use Daily Undulating Periodization to Force New Muscle and Strength Gains
How do you approach your workouts? While it may seem like there are an infinite number of factors at play — how often you go to the gym, what exercises you do, the equipment you work with — one of the most ... Continue Reading
The Best Upper-Body Home Workouts You Can Do Without Weights
Gyms across the globe may have once again opened their doors as the COVID-19 pandemic slowly quells, but that doesn't mean you have to get yourself a public membership if you want to get (or stay) in good ... Continue Reading
The Best CrossFit Workouts for Beginners to Build Strength and Mental Toughness
Walking into a CrossFit gym for the first time can feel intimidating. The barbells are loaded up up, the music is loud, and you’re wondering what you got yourself into. The first thing to remember is that ... Continue Reading
How to (Safely) Train Legs if You Have a Back Injury
You walk into the gym pain-free. After going through your trusty squat warm-up, you apprehensively unrack the bar for the first time, anxiously waiting for a spasm or shockwave to radiate across your body ... Continue Reading
The Best Bodyweight Leg Workouts to Crush Leg Day Anywhere
Your legs have some of the largest and strongest muscles in your entire body. You might have the roundest biceps in all the land, but tree trunk legs are going to load up so much more. If you’re able to ... Continue Reading
Jim Wendler’s 5/3/1 Workout Program, Explained
Sometimes your training just needs a good stiff kick in the butt. If you're the type of chronic program-hopper that constantly wonders if your workout routine is adequately servicing your fitness goals, ... Continue Reading
Muscle “Myth”, Busted — Here Are the Best Lower Chest Workouts for Bodybuilding
A well-developed chest can help you forge a more ideal physique for the bodybuilding stage, turn heads at the beach, or just look a bit bigger in the mirror. That said, most people don’t think too far ... Continue Reading
How to Clean and Care for a Barbell
While a barbell may be one of the most sought-after pieces of gym equipment because of the wide variety of workouts it can accommodate, there is one big thing a barbell can’t do — clean ... Continue Reading
Here’s How to Do a Dynamic Squat Warm Up for Bigger Lifts
It's a heavy squat day. You know your game plan and you’ve strapped into your lifting shoes. You have your belt and chalk all ready to go, and your pump up playlist is all queued up. But is your body ready ... Continue Reading
What is Functional Fitness Training? And Why Should You Do It?
You can squat more than twice your bodyweight, but can you climb the stairs to your apartment without getting overly winded? If you just hit a new bench press personal record but your shoulders aren’t ... Continue Reading
The Best EMOM Workouts for Strength, Endurance, and Mass
If you could, you’d spend hour after hour in the gym each day. But between family, work, friends, and sleeping every once in a while, you may just not be able to dedicate all that time to iron. If you’re ... Continue Reading
The Best Bodybuilding Calf Workout for Your Experience Level
In the world of bodybuilding, you have no good excuse to not train a muscle. This idea holds true almost exclusively, with one exception. If there was an Overton window of neglected musculature, the calves ... Continue Reading
The Best Bodybuilding Ab Workout for Your Experience Level
There are two warring factions that constantly struggle to claim dominance over the core training conversation, even in bodybuilding. The “squats are all you need” crowd, whose ethos is based on ... Continue Reading
Try These 20-Minute Muscle-Building Workouts to Make Gains at the Speed of Light
Going to the gym isn’t always as easy as it sounds. If you face a long commute to or from work, have a stressful atmosphere at home, or simply can’t seem to juggle your schedule, it’s all too easy for ... Continue Reading
The Best Bodybuilding Shoulder Workout, Customized to Your Experience Level
If you could only train one part of your upper body, what would you pick? There’s a case to be made for your arms, chest, lats, or even your traps as the most important element of a well-developed ... Continue Reading
The Best Bodybuilding Leg Workouts for Your Experience Level
Legs win bodybuilding competitions, period. Moreover, a well-developed lower body contributes to the coveted “X” shape and signals to everyone else in the gym that you take your training ... Continue Reading
The Best HIIT Workouts for Any Fitness Goal
Long workouts are for the birds. Why spend two hours in the gym if you don't have to? If you’re looking for a way to break out of a mental or physical rut in training, a few good HIIT workouts will do just ... Continue Reading
The Best Bodybuilding Arm Workout, Customized to Your Experience Level
The fabled gun run — an entire workout dedicated to crafting the juiciest arms possible. While some may think that big compound exercises are enough (and for certain goals, they may be), there's just ... Continue Reading
The Best Loaded Carry Workouts for Brute Strength and Shoulder Stability
Picking up something heavy and putting it right down again is both impressive and tough. But sometimes (AKA, grocery day), you don't just need to pick something up. You need to bring it to a new location. ... Continue Reading
How to Modify Your Workouts for Strength Gains
Some days, you start your workout feeling absolutely indestructible. Anything you’ve got programmed for today, you’re going to crush — and then some. Other gym days feel awful. You won the fight just by ... Continue Reading
The Best AMRAP Workouts to Get (and Stay) Fit in Less Time
Strength training can certainly tick a lot of boxes. From getting stronger, building muscle, improving joint health and stability, there aren’t a whole lot of gaps that a good weight training program can’t ... Continue Reading
The Best Dumbbell Back Workouts For Putting On Serious Size and Strength
The amount of muscles that make up the back provide a diverse variety of options for how you can structure your workouts. Given that there are so many unique ways to attack your back, you might actually ... Continue Reading
The Five Best Dumbbell Triceps Workouts You Need to Build Beefy Arms
Dumbbells are a tool that age like fine wine. They're great for beginners, and stay relevant throughout your training career. They’re a staple in almost every commercial gym, and their nearly-universal ... Continue Reading