exercises

For all gym rats and lovers of bodybuilding, you'll realize that not all muscle groups are easy to build; while some are quite easy to build, others are now challenging. Your calf muscles, your abdominal muscles, and your forearm muscles are all examples of muscles that are hard to build. These...

What if the flexing one does after taking a shower each day could strengthen them and help build muscles? Well, that would mean the more one showers, the more one flexes, resulting in one building muscles. Flexing can help muscle building, most notably for untrained individuals. For regular...

Top Ten Stealth Strategies for Maximizing Your Strength Training Results 1) Never sacrifice quality for quantity. This is the first commandment for athletic success. Violate it and prepare to fail. 2) Target the weakest link. If you’re naturally strong, train for speed and/or endurance. If...

A workout is made up of only so many sets and exercises. Constructing a workout without a purpose, and without the use of the best available tools will only waste your time. If you want to gain muscle and strength at the fastest rate possible you will need to choose the best possible exercises...

15 Reasons Why You’re Not Building Muscle: 1. You’re not getting enough calories Calorie consumption is the solution to about 90% of the complaints lifters have about not being about to get bigger and/or stronger. Your body requires a certain number of calories to maintain your current weight...

This article is written for the man who wants to begin a strength training program but doesn’t know where to start. Men and women more often than not strength train for different reasons (this conclusion comes from my 15 years of personal training experience). Where women are mostly concerned...

Besides a statuesque chest, having sleeve busting biceps is usually a top goal of men (and sometimes women) who hit the gym on a weekly basis. Big arms never go out of style, and it’s the one body part that gets you instant respect once people see them. Having big arms not only makes you look...

Day in and day out we are bombarded with “gym experts” and “trainers” who seem to have all the answers to get you big, strong and ripped. In reality, the same basic principals have stood the test of time, in all genres and arenas. Here I will highlight the keys to getting the most out of the...

There is a common misconception that you need a lot of time to train for it to be effective. Why bother if you haven’t 30 minutes to get your sweat on? Entering the holiday season, many people have more on their plate than usual, and gym time usually gets cut. You don’t need much time to...

The best measure of absolute pressing strength is not the bench press (please don’t tell the powerlifters) but the overhead press. Although the bench press is pretty standard among lifters, the same cannot be said for the overhead press or the many overhead press accessory exercises. Why? You...

One of the primary functions of the core is to protect the spine and prevent injury to it. Nobody wants to walk around with chronic back pain, so building a rock solid core should be a focus for everyone - from high level athletes to everyday gym-goers. In addition to protecting the spine, the...

Have you ever faced challenges that made it seem difficult to get a good quality workout in? Whether you’re pressed for time because of a busy schedule or the equipment selection in your gym is limited, life will always throw us curveballs that complicate our normal workout routine. When you’re...

When training for size, most casual and experienced lifters know that there’s an optimal rep range (approx. 6-12) that elicits a hypertrophic (muscle growth) response. Further, specific movements are often used to get just the right angle on the tricep, delt, or serratus…picture folks who camp...

When you want to build lean mass (i.e. muscle tissue), your goal should be to maximize muscle hypertrophy while minimizing fat gain. More often than not, gym goers treat mass-building phases like an invitation to get as bulky as possible, resulting in unnecessary fat gain. To mitigate this, the...

Did the chicken or the egg come first? Who cares? Both chicken and the egg are delicious—and you’re wondering what this has to do with mobility exercises. Stay with me for a moment. In the fitness universe, “experts” have often debated which exercise quality is more important to train...

Unlike unilateral row exercises bilateral vertical and horizontal pulling exercises like chin-ups bent over barbell rows, and seated rows often get all the love and attention. Because this is where the gains are due to the fact you’ll lift more weight. It’s a shame that unilateral row exercises...

Our bodies are three-dimensional (3-D) movement machines, yet some gymgoers don’t tap into the potential of our 3-D movement. But what is 3-D movement and what does this have to do with lateral exercises? Let gets nerdy for a hot minute. The human body has three planes of motion: the sagittal...

By Adam Bisek The Triceps Brachii Anatomy The triceps brachii is composed of three heads; long, medial, and lateral. All three heads span the upper arm (humerus) and attach to the forearm (ulna). However, the long head originates at the shoulder blade (scapula), while the medial and lateral...

Have you ever walked into a gym and seen a battle rope curled up in the corner and wonder why it is and what are some battle rope exercises you can do? First, it’s another tool in the toolbox when it comes to your conditioning. Second, it is not there to tie you in knots. Ropes were used way...

The most popular movements to build absolute strength are the barbell squat, deadlift, bench, and overhead press. With these exercises, the barbell moves in a relatively straight line for you to build more size and strength. But these are not the only exercises you should be doing in fact there...