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The body’s broadest muscle is also one of the hardest to feel working. Collect your gold star on the way out if you guessed the lats or the latissimus dorsi. Some lifters find it challenging to form a mind-muscle connection with their lats because they are often used with other muscles when...

There’s more than one way to “give you wings,” and this one doesn’t come in a can. Lat pulldowns target the broad, flat, winged-shaped muscle coveted by many lifters. Although pull-ups and chin-ups remain the gold standard for building the lats, lat pulldowns and the kneeling straight-arm...

FROM WHEELCHAIR TO CROSSFIT Posture is the key to achieving maximum results in hypertrophy, leanness, and aesthetics. After suffering from severe hip pain that left me in a wheelchair at the age of 27 for nearly a year, I healed myself using a simple exercise therapy technique (Posture Alignment...

If you're looking for the one move that brings together everyone that has ever hit the gym, from bodybuilders to powerlifters and even complete novices, then it should be deadlifting. Being the best of all compound exercises, it's difficult for any other type of weight lifting to replace...

1. Ab Rollout The first exercise Jason covers is the ab rollout from a knee position. While there are multiple variations of this exercise, Jason feels doing it from a knee position allows you to roll all the way out, take a deep breath in, and really get a good contraction on the abs. 2. The...

Mastering The Straight Arm Pulldown The Straight Arm Pulldown The straight arm pulldown is an excellent lat-isolating strength exercise which has been derived from the classic lat pulldown exercise. Unlike the lat pulldown, the straight arm variation involves assuming a standing position...

There is nothing worse than a weightlifter with big muscles and terrible posture. We’ve all seen them. You know who I’m talking about. You may even be one of them, standing in the gym with a stringer tank top and massive front delts pulling your shoulders forward. I’m not just talking about...

EZ Bar vs Straight Bar Curl Before determining which exercise is better, we have to understand what the biceps do. The biceps have 2 main functions. The one most people remember and acknowledge is the flexing/pulling of the forearm. But the other function of the biceps is to help supinate the...

No matter what you read about the exercise being "bad for your back," or people saying that you "shouldn't deadlift heavy" for whatever stupid reason they come up with... if you want results, you should be deadlifting. Snatch-Grip Deadlift I think the snatch-grip deadlift is one of the most...

One of the best ways to develop your delts and get full 360-degree growth is to run a circuit routine, otherwise known as a giant set, that consists of four basic exercises to start. Of course, as your shoulder development becomes more advanced and your strength and muscular endurance increase...

Per Bernal Somewhere along the way, the squat—always the kind with a heavy barbell against your traps—became the demarcation line between hardcore and softcore. Make them the foundation of your leg days and you were serious. Avoid them and you were just taking up gym space. That line has grown...

Are you the type of person that after dropping food on the floor will pick it up and eat it? Do you look after you wipe, or you say fuck it like the red dots dont so why should I? How dirty have you gone? I like my house neat but my wife leaves shit everywhere so I said fuck it and just live...

OK... i've been on trt 2-3 years now. did a mild blast before of 400mgs of test a week, but i'm presently doing NPP, Tbol, Masteron blast.. when the time comes to go back to cruise... do i just drop the compounds i'm running... is there any sort of " pct" type meds i should take. i know there...