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Smarter Workouts, Harder Body Build athleticism, size, and strength without living in the gym. Here's the complete program. Whether you work 9-5 or 5-9, your time is at a premium. You don’t have the luxury to waste it on ineffective programming. If you want to boost athleticism and look great...

When it comes to maximizing your performance in the gym, there’s a strategy that can take your training to the next level: priming. Priming involves super setting activation drills and explosive movements before your main lifts, tapping into the powerful concept of Post-Activation Potentiation...

The word “power” as it relates to training has been thrown around so much that I believe most people have lost or conflated its meaning. Because of this, lifters everywhere make many disastrous mistakes when power training. The first order of business is to define “power.” Once you know what...

5 Supersets for Brutal Strength & Explosive Power How to Get Strong and Explosive POWERFUL SUPERSETS = POWERFUL PHYSIQUE Being strong is great, but being strong AND powerful is even better. Training at high velocities using lighter loads will carry over seamlessly into lifting heavier loads...

Building power in the gym means moving weight fast to recruit the most motor units possible. This typically involves a healthy dose of power cleans and perhaps a few variations of the other classic Olympic lifts, but I'm here to help you broaden your training horizons. When it comes to building...

“Injuries are not caused by methods per se, but by the inappropriate, premature, and/or excessive application of methods.” – Charles Staley In all the years I’ve been involved in sports conditioning, I’ve never seen an issue with as much longevity and potential for heated debate as the question...

As a strength coach who works with high level athletes and an educator who trains the trainers - I'm always being asked what I think is the biggest mistake trainers, athletes and exercise enthusiasts make in the gym. My answer is always "most don't train the CNS". You see - there are actually...

Clean pulls are great for improving performance and packing on a ton of muscle. When people think of weightlifting movements, they usually thinking of the clean, jerk, and snatch. We always hear of the benefits of training with these exercises, but let’s be honest - many of you will not become...

James Haskell was one of rugby’s most feared players during an incredible 17-year, top-flight career that includes appearances in England, New Zealand, France, and Japan. And while it is true to say that “Hask” has never been shy of sharing a controversial opinion or making headlines off the...

We disagree with those who say Olympic lifts are too technical. Yes, they require a rare blend of speed, power, coordination, and timing. And that is precisely why you should add them into your program. To start, try the hang clean. This Olympic lift variation builds serious shoulder and...

For the fitness enthusiast, it’s a great time to be alive. We’re at the peak of the industry’s information age, with purportedly new training techniques cropping up everywhere we look. this is good. What’s not so good, however, is when people take these techniques into the gym and use them the...

Brandon Ramos Danielle Vaji played softball at the University of Illinois, so she’s always been an athlete. But it takes a different kind of athleticism to hoist a 170-pound keg over your head or throw a 55-pound salmon for distance. Such were the challenges at the Strongest Woman in the World...

Jump Squats For Explosive Testosterone Boost Posted by: Iron Man Magazine Adding a power move to the end of a leg workout is great way to boost testosterone concentrations in an effort to improve muscle size. Sports scientists at AUT University in New Zealand put a group of athletes through...

Push Your Bench Up One of the most neglected types of training for the average gym goer is explosive strength. Almost everyone is taught to lift weights with a "slow and controlled movement". However, in all sports athletes need to be explosive. When a baseball player swings a bat...