Did someone say dumbbells are just for the biceps? When applied correctly, they could aid in strengthening and muscle growth! Exercises with dumbbells are appropriate for both newbies and expert lifters. Combining full-body dumbbell workouts with cardio can help you gain lean muscle and lose fat, improving the aesthetics of your body and increasing …
Injuries can happen at any moment. Weightlifting is one of the most injury prone sports because of the excessive loads of resistance. To assure safety and a good quality practice, it’s important to have a stable foundation. Here’s how a lack of stability can lead to injuries. Upper Body Injuries Compound …
Explosive, technical, and exciting; Olympic weightlifting movements look sexy and fun. The question is then, what are the benefits of using these movements in your own training? Let’s dig in. A Brief History Olympic weightlifting as we know it made its entrance into the Olympic Games in 1920. Prior to that, …
Know Your Lifts Lifting is a numbers game. Different levels of weight, or any resistance, can result in a different hypertrophic effect on the body. A lifter can work on their skills for strength, hypertrophy, or endurance to become a better athlete. Each category of lifting yields different results based on the …
Want to make this year your best ever for building muscle? Then let’s start by putting your traditional bodybuilding-style program on the back burner, at least for a while. Instead, you’re going to focus on developing raw strength. Sound like heresy? Hardly. Some of the greatest bodybuilders of all time—including Ronnie Coleman and Arnold Schwarzenegger—were competitive …
What is Olympic Lifting | Learn the Olympic Lifts | Olympic Lift Variations | Olympic Lifting and Bodybuilding Lifters tend to shy away from the Olympic lifts, the barbell snatch and the clean and jerk, because they look complicated and require a great deal of technique. But in those two challenges lie their biggest benefits. With time and …
My first Mother’s Day is just around the corner. Of course, it’s not really my first, but it feels like it since this is the first time the holiday is about, well, me! My daughter was born in late February, and I’m just now feeling settled enough to reflect on my experience and take some new …
Back Pain | Shoulder Pain | Knee Pain | Upper-Body Workout | Lower-Body Workout Experts can talk all day about the right way to train through back and knee pain, but until you have a workout in front of you—or more specifically, a great pain-free workout behind you—it’s just talk. This …
Exercise is good for you. That’s hardly news: People who exercise tend to have longer, healthier lives. But until recently, researchers have tallied its benefits only in narrow slices: Exercise lowers your cholesterol and blood pressure; it keeps you from getting fat. Now it’s becoming clear that those known slices don’t add up to …
Subscribe To Podcast | More Episodes Listen To Podcast Episode #73 Podcast Episode 73 – Matt Vincent & Bonnie Schroeder: Lifting, Injury Rehab, and Athletic Adventuring. Owner of the lifestyle brand HVIII Brand Goods, Matt Vincent, and USAPL 57kg lifter Bonnie Schroeder, took the month of August to hit the road, living out of …
Can overweight people build muscle the same way leaner people do? Or does body weight somehow prevent hypertrophy? Those were the questions a study by a group of British researchers set out to answer recently. The results are good news for people with a high BMI who are wondering if strength training is “worth it,” […]
Despite our best intentions, it’s inevitable that we compare athletes from different strength disciplines and wonder who’s “best.” So, why resist it? Instead, have fun with it! That’s what the team at the online training site Brute Strength Training did when they created the four-episode web series “The Brute Strength Showdown.” Four top athletes from […]
In recent years, chronic shoulder pain has begun rivaling lower-back pain as the preeminent pain complaint among the active population. Considering how prevalent back pain is, that’s some sad and surprising news. But here’s what’s worse: In the case of the shoulder, trends are starting to show that active people are getting hurt more than those who live a purely […]
There’s no doubt depression can have a host of negative effects on health. Currently, more than 300 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with the disease. As if being depressed isn’t bad enough, these individuals also are more susceptible to cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and type 2 diabetes. They’re also more prone to disregard medical […]
Let's take a trip back in time. How far? Back before the gym was cluttered with dudes with camera crews, and stick figure lifters who strain harder for a selfie than they do during a set of squats.Back then, before the … [Read More...]