Exercise Guides
Powerlifting
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The Guide to Arm Training for Powerlifters
Powerlifting is a quantitative sport. In some ways, it’s more about mathematics than muscularity. However, modern powerlifting has started to look beyond the amount of weight on the barbell as the only metric of what makes a successful strength athlete. You’d be hard-pressed to find an International Powerlifting Federation world-record holder that didn’t look the…
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How to Train Powerlifting Once Per Week (And Make it Count)
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The Best Powerlifting Workouts for Beginners to Break Into the Sport
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The Best Powerlifting Chest Workouts to Help You Bench Heavier
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How to (Properly) Combine Powerlifting and Bodybuilding Training
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Bodybuilding vs. Powerlifting Programs — Understanding the Difference
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7 Lateral — Yes, Lateral — Exercises Powerlifters Should Be Doing
CrossFit
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How to Get Into CrossFit as an Older Adult
CrossFit may well be one of the most popular workout programs in the world. According to the organization’s website, CrossFit boasts more than 5 million global participants and 14,000 gyms exclusively dedicated to the training methodology. (1) Whether you’re a skeptic or a hardcore athlete, you’ve probably seen at least one CrossFit WOD (that’s workout…
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How to Do a Picture-Perfect Overhead Squat for Olympic Lifting, CrossFit, and More
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The 9 Best Stretches for CrossFit Athletes to Maximize Performance
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The Best CrossFit Warm-Up to Help You Crush Your Next WOD
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The 12 Best Leg Exercises for CrossFitters for Strong, Powerful Legs
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Power Your Way to Better Lifts With Thrusters
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Become a High-Rep Pull-Up Master With the Kipping Pull-Up
Weightlifting
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How to Do the Muscle Snatch for Better Weightlifting Performance
If you’re on the hunt for a new way to improve your weightlifting game, the muscle snatch is an absolute game-changer. The muscle snatch can help you build explosive leg power, teach you how to be a powerful and aggressive vertical puller, and reinforce solid snatching mechanics to boot. The tremendous amounts of strength and…
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The Snatch Pull Can Elevate Your Weightlifting Game — If You Do It Right
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Clean Up Your Weightlifting Game With the Muscle Clean
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Drill the Drop Snatch to Level Up Your Weightlifting Performance
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Dynamic Warm-Up for Weightlifting
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The Jump Squat: How, When, and Why Weightlifters Should Include Them In Training
Strongman
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How to Do the Log Press for Massive Overhead Strength and Power
When you want to build head-to-toe strength — and you want to look awesome doing it — there are few lifts that can compete with the hardcore nature of the log press. The unstable, unwieldy log bar will have your entire body working in overdrive to clean it off the ground, up your belly and…
Bodyweight
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How to Do the Dumbbell Squat: Be Brilliant at the Basics
There’s nothing like the sensation of getting stuck under a loaded bar at the bottom of a barbell squat, only to battle out an incredible one-rep max. But no matter how much raw strength you have, that’s…not where your squatting journey is going to start. You’ll start more humbly — but arguably, just as powerfully.…
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How to Do the Reverse Flye, Plus Variations & Alternatives From a CPT
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The 12 Best Mobility Exercises, PT-Approved
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Best Cardio Alternatives to Running, From a Personal Trainer
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How to Do Heel Touches — Proper Form, Benefits, Variations, and More
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The Wall Sit Exercise: Benefits, Best Variations, and Form Tips
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How To Do the Frog Pose for Better Hip Flexibility and Posture
