For most, “lifting weights” is a very literal pastime. Sure, goals may differ between a recreational gymgoer who strength trains to benefit their health and a career powerlifter chasing an ever-higher ... Continue Reading
How to Make Homemade Meal Replacement Shakes to Fuel Your Training Goals
One of the best ways to set up a healthy lifestyle or work on a fitness goal when you’re busy is to carve out times in your schedule. If you like to hit the gym in the morning before work, you’ve got a ... Continue Reading
How to Do Pelvic Tilts for Better Core Strength and Control
Pelvic tilts are often an underrated move in the gym despite being a favorite of many physical therapists. They help to strengthen the core muscles, which are active in pretty much everything you do. This ... Continue Reading
From Walking with a Cane to Powerlifting Competitions (with Angelo Poli)
Today we have one that really spans the spectrum from fitness to nutrition. I'm talking to Angelo Poli, who is the founder of a company called MetPro. The first part of the podcast talks about Angelo's ... Continue Reading
Working Out After a Tattoo: The Do’s and Don’ts, According to a Veteran Artist
You’ve lost what little sensation remains in your arm. An indistinct buzzing bounces from ear to ear. Your phone’s battery is on its last legs — you’ve checked your e-mail, scrolled social media, and most ... Continue Reading
30-Minute Treadmill Workouts to Build Stamina and Strength
Given an infinite amount of free time and a perfectly stable climate, you could run anywhere, any time, for however long you want. That may be enticing, but if you’re juggling school, work, travel, or ... Continue Reading
Everything You Need to Know About LISS Cardio and Why You Should Do It
As a fitness enthusiast, you’re used to pushing yourself through your training sessions, feeling the burn, and making major progress on your goals. You’re working to build muscle, lift heavier, and leaving ... Continue Reading
How to Do the Dead Bug Exercise for More Core Strength and Control
The dead bug exercise may be bleakly named, but its prowess as a core-builder is nearly unmatched. It’s a fantastic tool to teach core engagement and coordination, though it sadly mimics the wriggling ... Continue Reading
Should You Try the 75 Hard Challenge? Here Are the Pros and Cons
Fitness fads have risen and fallen in modern popular culture since, well, ever, basically. If you had cable television in the early to mid 00’s, you were bombarded with ads for the P90X program at some ... Continue Reading
The 8 Best Push Exercises You Should Be Doing for Muscle and Strength
If you follow fitness, it probably feels like the posterior chain is all the rage. (For the uninitiated, your posterior chain is basically your backside. It counts all of the muscles that span the base of ... Continue Reading
The 5 Best Lower Lat Exercises for a Denser Back
Big lats serve two primary purposes: They support your spine during squats, deadlifts, and bench presses and make you look big in sweaters. However, many lifters have trouble engaging their lats because we ... Continue Reading
Does Protein Powder Expire? And How to Properly Store
The best protein powders can be a tasty and convenient way to up your daily protein intake no matter your fitness level. Even the bulkiest of tubs can go pretty quickly if you mix up a shake everyday. But ... Continue Reading
Why Do My Shins Hurt When I Run?
There are few feelings more deflating than having your early morning run prematurely halted by a sudden and sustained aching in your shins. All your planning goes out the window when that time you set ... Continue Reading
14 High-Protein Snacks Loved By Nutrition Coaches
Sure, the best protein powders can help you reach your protein goal for the day, but when you get hungry between lunch and dinner, you’ve probably pulled open the refrigerator and peered in, looking for a ... Continue Reading
What the Heck Is a Tempo Run? How to Run Faster, Longer
At the start of your running journey, any speed will do — you’re just trying to lace up your running shoes and get out the door (or onto the treadmill). Wherever you are in your training regimen now, ... Continue Reading
What Is a Healthy Body Fat Percentage?
How much body fat you carry can be tremendously stigmatizing in the United States. The quest for the “ideal body” has always changed based on social norms at any given time. Current ideas about body fat in ... Continue Reading
How to Do the Barbell Wrist Curl to Build Those Forearms
Forearms — the calves of your upper body. The forearms are one of the most underrated muscles, often because they can be so darn difficult to grow. But because of this, forearms often sit neglected as ... Continue Reading
The Complete Guide to Reverse Dieting
Weight loss, whether for aesthetic or performance-related reasons, is an extremely common fitness goal. While you may have run a successful diet and dropped some spare pounds, you might be left wondering ... Continue Reading
How to Cook Up Your Own Homemade Pre-Workout
You do everything you can for optimal performance on the lifting platform. Downing pre-workout before the gym gives you that energy and performance boost you’re looking for, especially on those mornings ... Continue Reading
Try These Elliptical Workouts for Weight Loss During Your Next Workout
If you’ve wanted to make a change to your health that involves losing a bit of weight, starting can seem like the hardest part — especially if you don’t have much experience with fitness or ... Continue Reading
Try This Upper Body Resistance Band Workout to Tone Up
Resistance bands may be widely known as a tool for rehab and prehab, but don’t count them out as a key ally in your quest to craft strong, solid muscles. These elastic bands can provide a solid amount of ... Continue Reading
The Best Sources of Calcium for Strength Athletes (And How Much You Need)
There are plenty of essential minerals that humans need to maintain basic health and optimal functioning. But the one that most people can name from all those childhood commercials is calcium. That doesn’t ... Continue Reading
The Best Beginner Workout Plan To Start Your Fitness Journey
Nothing worth having comes easy. This is as true in your career as it is in the gym — the latter of which can be extremely daunting if you’ve never been before. If you’re new to exercise, hitting the ... Continue Reading
Pre-Workout and Alcohol: The Risks You Need To Know
If you were a teenager or young adult in the latter half of the ‘aughts, you were probably aware of (or partook in) the infamous Four Loko drink. The “premium malt beer beverage” was all the rage among ... Continue Reading