Exercise is one of the best ways to fight jet lag, travel fatigue, and stiffness that comes from sitting on a plane or in a car all day. This is my FAVORITE, super-simple workout that can be done ANYWHERE. ... Continue Reading
6 Serious Battle Rope Circuits to Build Your Core and Shoulders
Ah, battle ropes. The simultaneous dread and delight of all my personal training clients — and me! While they may look all innocent, laying there on the ground waiting for a badass like you to pick them ... Continue Reading
5 Kettlebell Circuits That Will Maximize Your Endurance
So you’re a lifter who needs to boost your endurance because you’ve realized that when you’re grinding out that last rep, it helps to have a killer cardio system backing you up. Or you’re an endurance ... Continue Reading
Op-Ed: 5 Workout Challenges Every Athlete Should Try
Personally, I'm not fan of extreme racing — if you’re the type of person who likes competitions, pain, and/or physical punishment, I prefer different kinds of fitness challenges. When your training gets ... Continue Reading
The Ultimate Workout for Office Workers Who Sit All Day
Sitting a lot is bad for our health and posture. A few years ago, sitting was called the new smoking. This was a bit extreme but it still does have a huge effect on our health. A 2010 paper by the ... Continue Reading
3 Hotel Workouts for Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Lifters
Training while traveling. For some, this can be the difference between improving their fitness, losing the last few pounds, and helping keep them sane as they take on life and business stress. It’s no ... Continue Reading
Squats Causing You Low Back Pain? Try This Unilateral Leg Workout
Ah, the pains of low back pain. You set up under the barbell, get tight, unrack, and physically feel those vertebrae compressing under the weight. Sometimes it’s not even an injury; sometimes, no matter ... Continue Reading
The Surprising Benefits of Doing Push-Ups In the Sand
This summer, you might find yourself on beach vacation with only a sketchy motel gym to keep your lifting program alive. Or, you might be heading out for a day with family and friends and want to get a ... Continue Reading
Push Your Limits and Try These 4 Grueling Squat Challenges
The Squat. Love em or hate em, they are one of the most effective and efficient movements you can do to increase muscle mass, drive anabolic adaptations, and develop serious lower and total body strength. ... Continue Reading
Crowded Gym? Try These One-Dumbbell Workouts
Imagine these scenarios. You walk into the gym ready to train and it’s packed, and all the squat racks and benches are taken. Or your boss calls you into work early because of an important deadline and ... Continue Reading
4 Household Items You Can Use for a Killer Workout
You’re stuck at home for whatever reason, and you’re slightly bummed that you can’t get a workout in. However, do you have a couch, paper plates and a bath towel lying around? If you said yes, it’s time ... Continue Reading
How to Work Out With a Tire and Sledgehammer
Okay, so your gym has a big old tire on the big old turf section. Hooray! But only the super buff dudes who make lots of sounds while lifting go near it, and you don’t want to be 'That Loser' who goes up ... Continue Reading
How to Plan the Perfect Off-Season to Smash Weaknesses
I’ve written a lot before about how difficult meet prep can be: it’s stressful, it’s a time when you’re more prone to injury (because of the heavier weights and higher stress levels) — and it can also be ... Continue Reading
Powerlifting Vs. Bodybuilding Arm Workouts: What’s the Difference?
Recently, I wrote an article explaining what I think of bodybuilding — from, of course, my point of view as a life-long professional powerlifter. In that article, I explained that despite how different ... Continue Reading
3 Ways to Build a Kettlebell Pyramid Workout
Ah, pyramid training. There’s something about getting in and out of a muscle group (or a cardio-esque workout) quickly and not-at-all easily that is immensely satisfying. Unlike traditional (and more ... Continue Reading
At-Home Dumbbell Workouts for Powerlifters, Weightlifters, and More
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
Low Impact, HIIT 15-Minute Kettlebell Circuit
There are more awesome things about kettlebells than I can list in the fifteen minutes it will take for a lifter to perform this low impact, high intensity interval training circuit. Suffice it to say, for ... Continue Reading
Chest Workouts You Can Do at Home with Minimal Equipment
At-home workouts are anything but easy, with many strength, power, and fitness athletes and coaches maximizing their performance from the comfort of their own home. Strength superstars like Brian Shaw ... Continue Reading
The Advanced Kettlebell Skill Circuit for Total Athleticism
Most of you have performed kettlebell circuits before, putting together basic kettlebell lifts and moving from one to the next for a certain number of reps and rounds. But have you done a Kettlebell ... Continue Reading
Full Body Kettlebell Circuit Workout for Strength
Kettlebells are a highly valuable tool for building stamina, muscle, and strength. Often times, when athletes think about building serious strength, the kettlebell is not one of the first tools to choose ... Continue Reading
Build Big Shoulders With This Supplementary Shoulder Workout Routine
Lately, I’ve been incorporating more bodybuilding work into my powerlifting training, and I’m seeing fantastic results out of it — in both size and strength. I used to think that if you wanted to be the ... Continue Reading
James Harrison Retires: Here Are His 10 Coolest Workout Videos
Outside of strength sports, football players are often regarded as some of the strongest athletes by trade. In many cases, they train a lot like strength athletes, or at least perform a lot of the same ... Continue Reading
The 3 Most Effective Workout Splits For Strength Training
Whether you know it or not, you follow some sort of training split — that is, how you organize which body parts to train when. There are full-body splits, push-pull splits, body part splits. However, when ... Continue Reading
5 Sled Workouts Used by NFL Players
Dominic Frazier has worked as a strength and conditioning coach for dozens of elite NFL athletes, including the Falcons, Cowboys, Titans, Lions, and Browns. He’s also trained athletes in Major League ... Continue Reading