At-home training can be tricky, especially if you don't have the right equipment, tools, and/or loading. For more serious lifters, gaining maximal strength, muscle mass, and sports performance ... Continue Reading
3 Leg Workouts You Can Do at Home with Dumbbells
Most of us know the importance of squatting and deadlifting, as both of those are core ingredients for a well developed lower body and posterior chain. For some lifters, training at home means they may or ... Continue Reading
3 Leg Workouts You Can Do At Home Without Equipment
Leg strength and muscular development is a pillar of strength, power, and fitness training. Strong quadriceps, hamstrings, and glutes help to increase running economy, sports performance, and quality of ... Continue Reading
3 Chest Workouts You Can Do At Home with Dumbbells
While the barbell is a key ingredient for overall pressing strength and chest hypertrophy, equipment like dumbbells can still be high quality alternatives that can build serious bench press strength and ... Continue Reading
2 Glute Workouts for More Mass and Stronger Lifts
Sure, you can build stronger glutes with movements like back squats, deadlifts, and kettlebell swings can be powerful glute mass-building exercises, a dedicated, and often more isolated approach to glute ... Continue Reading
8 Glute Exercises Without Weights
Coaches and athletes can integrate glute training within warm-up segments, glute activation series, and hypertrophy/accessory blocks to increase muscular hypertrophy and glute engagement. The benefits of ... Continue Reading
14 Best Exercises for Glutes
Glute training is key for squat strength, deadlift performance, and overall posterior chain development for most strength, power, and fitness based movements. Increased glute activation, muscle ... Continue Reading
What Exercises Are Best for Weight Lifting Belts?
When reaching for a weight lifting belt, what exercises signal the need to use one? Are they movements that you feel a belt benefits, movements that warrant a belt's use based off of what's presented on ... Continue Reading
Will the Rogue Fitness .50 Cal Trolley Change the Power Rack Game?
With an undying love for barbell sports, comes an undying love for lifting equipment. At times with lifting equipment, it can seem like you don't really need something, until you see it. The next item ... Continue Reading
5 Benefits of the Glute Bridge
Glute training is key for increasing posterior chain strength, power, and performance. While many strength, power, and fitness athletes spend most of their weight training performing squats, deadlifts, ... Continue Reading
Dynamic Warm-Up for Squats
Many coaches and lifters devote a large amount of their training to squatting. Despite the wide amounts of squat mobility and flexibility routines, activation exercises, and squat therapy resources ... Continue Reading
5 Benefits of Standing Calf Raises
In this article we will discuss the key benefits of the standing calf raise for most strength, power, and fitness athletes. In this previous standing calf raise guide, we offered coaches and athletes calf ... Continue Reading
3 Reasons Why Upright Rows Are Bad
In an earlier article we discussed the upright row and how it can be a favorable training exercise for strength, power, and fitness athletes looking to increase movement specific strength (Olympic ... Continue Reading
Could a Stronger Grip Suggest Higher Cognitive Functioning?
You can tell a lot by an athlete's hand, and no, I'm not referencing palm reading or any other form of visual assessment that make claims based upon...uh...science. In this article, I'm referencing ... Continue Reading
4 Benefits of Double Kettlebell Swings
It’s no secret these days that kettlebells are great training tools for movement training, functional strength, power application, and metabolic conditioning workouts. With the wide variety of kettlebell ... Continue Reading
The Weather and Our Joints: Is There a Connection?
A cold front blew into New York last night and I arose to my knee being stiff. This has become a common phenomenon I've learned to live with post surgery in February 2017. Before surgery, I used to ... Continue Reading
5 Benefits of Sumo Deadlift High Pulls
In this article we will discuss the sumo deadlift high pull, a powerful posterior chain exercise that can increase strength and hypertrophy of the hips, hamstrings and back; and more. Below we will discuss ... Continue Reading
Autoregulation: Can It Be Beneficial for Every Type of Strength Athlete?
It's Monday, work was long and stressful, you barely slept the night before, and you have heavy squat triples. Going into the workout your mind is elsewhere, far from the weights in front of you. You begin ... Continue Reading
4 Benefits of Russian Dips
In an earlier article we discussed the Russian dip and why it can be a valuable asset to gymnastics and competitive fitness athletes looking to build stronger triceps, chest muscles, and develop better ... Continue Reading
4 Benefits of Weighted Pull-Ups
In this article we will discuss the weighted pull-up and the specific benefits that it offers strength, power, and fitness athletes in regards to back development overall performance. In an earlier article ... Continue Reading
4 Benefits of Jumping Pull-Ups
In this article we will discuss the jumping pull-up, a bodyweight exercise we discussed in a previous article that went over everything you needed (and wanted) to learn about the the movement. In the below ... Continue Reading
5 Benefits of Hanging Knee Raises
In this article we will discuss the training benefits of the hanging knee raise, which can be done to increase muscular development of the abdominal muscles, strengthen the core, and help to increase ... Continue Reading
The Top 10 Most Searched Workouts of 2017 (Strength Sports Made It Twice)
There's no doubt that 2017 has been a big year for strength sports. The fitness industry as a whole seems to be at a transitional point where a majority of gym-goers are finally starting to recognize that, ... Continue Reading
4 Benefits of Z Press
In an earlier article we discussed the Z Press and the wide array of benefits that can come from performing such a functional and movement-challenging exercise. In that article, we also went over the ... Continue Reading