Short on time, space, and equipment? Don’t sweat it — you can keep sweating as hard as you’d like. You don’t need to spend hours in a big, fully-equipped gym to find the gains you’re looking for. With just ... Continue Reading
The 12 Best Rowing Machine Workouts for Every Experience Level
Don’t like running? You don’t have to. Even though treadmills are great, they’re not the only piece of cardio equipment that can get you in tip-top shape. Rowing machines will bring you a wealth of ... 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
10 Thruster Workouts for Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Athletes
Thrusters are one of the most popular movements used in CrossFit. The difficulty of the thruster should be modified to properly and safely challenge the fitness level of the individual athlete. Combining a ... Continue Reading
The 21s Workout Method Can Incite Ridiculous Muscle Growth
You want a more intense workout, but you don’t necessarily want to load more weight onto the bar. Or you’re pressed for time and can’t afford to add even more sets to up your training stimulus and volume. ... 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
How to Do Weightlifting Once Per Week and Make It Count
Few sports adhere to the so-called “10,000-hour rule” like Olympic lifting. While your technique certainly matters a great deal for every exercise you do in the gym, the nature of the snatch and clean ... Continue Reading
The Best 10-Minute Ab Workouts to Strengthen Your Lifts and Your Six Pack
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 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 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
Get Freakishly Strong With the 5×5 Workout Program
If you're even a little bit interested in getting stronger, you've probably heard or read about the 5x5 workout program. One of the earliest iterations of this workout was popularized by Bill Starr — and ... 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
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
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
Build a Titanic Torso with These Bodybuilding Chest & Back Workouts
Some pairings just make sense. For bodybuilders — aspiring or professional alike — it’s stuff like whey protein and whole milk. Biceps and board shorts at the beach. Ab work and cardio. Certain things just ... 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