exercise

Close Grip Lat Pulldowns – 3-4 Sets, 10-12 Reps This exercise is a vertical pulling movement that targets your lats. The key is to really drive with your elbows and control the weight with your lats, getting a full stretch at the top. Try to eliminate any movement in your biceps or traps and...

By itself, a high-quality protein supplement is a potent ergogenic aid that can assist with muscle growth and recovery. However, when protein is stacked with other performance enhancing ingredients, training efforts and gains may be amplified to a greater degree. Some of these ingredients work...

Every day, we’re bombarded with advertisements pushing fat burners guaranteeing us a perfect body with little or no effort. Unfortunately, too many people rely on these hollow promises only to be disappointed. If you want to change your body, the answer isn’t in a bottle alone; it’s in a...

Collectively made up of leucine, isoleucine, and valine, BCAAs are known as essential amino acids because the human body cannot produce them and they must be consumed through diet or supplementation. Independently, each BCAA plays an important physiological role in the body. However, it is their...

The Top 6 Benefits of Intra-Workout Supplementation We are all familiar with pre and post workout supplementation. As the names imply, these are supplements (pre-workouts and protein powders for example) we can take before or after exercise that can enhance performance, build muscle, and promote...

There are show muscles and there are go muscles, and Tyler Holt knows how to build both. This athlete, fitness model, and Bodybuilding.com spokesmodel finalist isn't afraid to pump up his legs—as long as he can still leap over tall buildings in a single bound. "I want to build muscle and...

You've see them in the gym every day: The people who seem to just wander from one machine to the next, one free-weight exercise to another, with no apparent plan. Hats off to them for showing up, but new research suggests that there can be a world of difference between just going to the gym and...

Endurance exercise is generally any aerobic exercise performed for an hour or more, like running, swimming, and cycling. Think marathoner or triathlete. But whether you’re competing or not, if you’re performing this type of physical activity, it’s important to know the difference in fueling for...

From what I see on a daily basis, it's clear to me that most people in the gym are wasting their time investment. They're spending precious hours engaged in strength or endurance training programs that yield little or no results? Need proof? When was the last time someone in your gym made any...

What Is A Turkish Get Up? The Turkish getup is a full body, multiplanar movement, usually performed with a kettlebell (but can also be done with a dumbbell, sandbag, or bodyweight only). Unlike many of the other movements typically associated with kettlebell training; like swings, cleans, and...

Endurance exercise is generally any aerobic exercise performed for an hour or more, like running, swimming, and cycling. Think marathoner or triathlete. But whether you’re competing or not, if you’re performing this type of physical activity, it’s important to know the difference in fueling for...

Whether you’re a novice lifter or a seasoned veteran in the gym, you have likely struggled with an exercise at one point or another due to your grip failing. It’s a humbling experience - picking up a barbell that’s quickly trying to escape your grasp, or hanging onto a dumbbell for dear life...

Mark Lauren’s style of functional bodyweight training has amassed 1.7 million book sales and continues with his latest offering: “Strong and Lean.” In this new series of workouts, Lauren offers up a fresh set from his 9 minutes bodyweight workout that can be undertaken with barely any equipment...

The goblet squat revolutionized the way squats are being performed and taught worldwide after the great Dan John came up with it. If you don’t know what a Goblet squat is, I’m getting Dan John to come over to your house and personally put you through his goblet squat workout—but it’s probably...

In order to gain muscle, you MUST undergo intense resistance training. In order to gain muscle, you MUST consume protein to re-build muscle tissue. These two variables work synergistically with each other and to maximize your chances of gaining lean muscle tissue you simply must consume...

What is Creatine? Creatine monohydrate is without a doubt the most researched, time-tested, and proven sports supplement available to date; thousands of studies have demonstrated that increased muscle creatine stores via supplementation can significantly enhance both aerobic and anaerobic...

Fat (adipose) is an intriguing organ system due to its multitude of bodily functions. The body contains several types of adipose tissue that vary by function and location. Most of the fat tissue humans possess is comprised of white adipocytes which are primarily responsible for secretion of...

Split squats, lunges, squats, leg presses, and deadlift variations get most of the love in your leg routine because they’re responsible for most of your leg gains. But a neglected exercise often gets overlooked in many lifters’ routines in the step up exercise. It looks so simple because all you...

Everyone understands that exercise is important, yet they don’t seem to grasp the multiplicity of health benefits physical movement imparts. Moreover, it seems many people feel that exercise is unnecessary as long they follow a healthy diet. Don’t get us wrong, a healthy diet is certainly...

Were you struggling to sit down on the toilet this morning because of that brutal leg workout you did yesterday? (Don’t worry, anyone who has ever grunted through enough squats has experienced that tribulation.) Whether you're a recreational gym-goer or a competitive bodybuilder, recovery is an...