There seem to be two common perspectives on training your abs — either it’s an afterthought in training or it becomes complete overkill. The reality is that wherever you place the ab component of your ... Continue Reading
The Candito Six-Week Strength Training Program, Explained
From humble beginnings as one of social media's earliest online strength training content creators, powerlifter and YouTube personality Jonnie Candito has spent the last decade or so growing his reputation ... Continue Reading
The Best Bodybuilding Forearm Workouts for Your Experience Level
There (probably) isn’t a gym rat on the face of the Earth who neglects their arms. After all, your biceps and triceps are some of the top glamor muscles. Even at a young age, an adult probably invited you ... Continue Reading
The Best Battle Rope Workouts to Make Waves in Your Training
Conditioning circuits aren’t just for CrossFitters. A lot of commercial gyms are realizing the raw appeal of all-out effort. Tools like prowlers, medicine balls, and particularly battle ropes aren’t just ... Continue Reading
The Smolov Jr. Program for Powerlifting, Explained
The Smolov Jr. strength program may have claimed the soul of more gym bros than any other program on the market. The often- underestimated program has been proven effective for seriously boosting your ... Continue Reading
The Best Full-Body Workout You Can Do In the Squat Rack
Your workouts shouldn’t make you feel like you’re on a scavenger hunt. If you’re ever had to scour a crowded facility, desperately trying to find that one missing cable attachment (seriously, where is it?) ... Continue Reading
The Best Upper-Body Workouts Workouts You Can Do At Home
Whether it’s a one-off session or your preferred training method, it’s highly likely that you’ll find yourself performing an at-home workout at some point. Stepping into your own basement or garage gym can ... Continue Reading
Y3T Training Explained — Is Coach Neil Hill’s Bodybuilding Workout Muscle Magic?
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