Choosing Your Class: Female | Choosing Your Class: Male | Pro Tips for Guys | Pro Tips for Girls | Competition Day Go-Bag Essentials You’ve lifted heavy, dialed in your nutrition, and stuck to your supp schedule. You’re so close to stepping onstage you can almost taste it—no, wait, that’s just chicken. …
Choosing Your Class: Female | Choosing Your Class: Male | Pro Tips for Guys | Pro Tips for Girls | Competition Day Go-Bag Essentials You’ve lifted heavy, dialed in your nutrition, and stuck to your supp schedule. You’re so close to stepping onstage you can almost taste it—no, wait, that’s just chicken. …
If you’ve set your sights on a physique competition, having a plan of attack is essential. There is no one “right” way to prepare, and different things work for different people, but a systematic approach is essential to help you manage both your expectations and your outcome. Whether you plan to compete only in local shows or plan …
Jackson “Bajheera” Bliton is a natural pro bodybuilder who also happens to be a high-level gamer known for his YouTube, Instagram, and Twitch content that combines his love of training with his love of gaming. If you think those two passions don’t go together, Bliton is here to prove otherwise. Here are his 6 …
Is 2021 your year to shine? If it is—if it’s your year to step up to the plate and finally get that fitness program into action—we have some of the best tips to help you succeed. When motivation strikes high each New Year, thousands begin their journey to reach that elusive “fit bod.” Not …
Everyone knows how wonderful it feels to wake up after a refreshing sleep, but you may not know just how critical getting a full night of sleep is to your health and to achieving optimal mental performance. In his 2014 TED Talk, neuroscientist Jeff Iliff explains that sleep and sleep quality are essential to …
As the world starts to make its way out of stay-at-home orders, increasingly more gyms are opening their doors so diligent gains-makers can get back to work. There’s a massive amount of information available from sources like the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization about whether wearing a mask is right …
So, you injured yourself lifting weights? You’re not alone. I recently suffered a complete tear of my pectoralis major tendon while performing a barbell bench press. The weight I was using would put me into the powerlifting category. I had to have surgery and was immobilized in an arm sling for six weeks. If …
Do you want to lose weight? Don’t be embarrassed! Living a healthier lifestyle is possible for everyone at any age. Losing weight takes patience, strength, and commitment. Some people will find it easier than others to shed the extra pounds. Don’t compare yourself to anyone else. Whatever happens, just keep going! Everyone’s weight-loss journey …
When it comes to building functional strength, power, and resiliency, nothing beats the deadlift. But as powerful of a tool as this lift is, it also happens to be the exercise that is most notoriously associated with pain and injuries, including the lower back and, in many cases, even the shoulders. While there’s nothing …
If you’ve read some of our featured transformations, you know that no two journeys look the same. The time it takes, the foods you eat, the workouts you do—there are a billion ways to achieve the results you want to see in the mirror. Still, they don’t say “start with the basics” for nothing. …
Strength: we all want it, but we don’t all achieve it. At least not as quickly as we’d like. If only it were as simple as adding weight workout after workout or even week after week. As with anything worth having in life, it doesn’t come easy—which is why you need to be covering …
Back is an out-of-sight, out-of-mind muscle group for many people. Unlike the chest, shoulders, arms, and abs, it doesn’t easily catch your eye the way a biceps stretching out of a T-shirt sleeve or a ripped sixer does. Even more importantly, it can’t be scrutinized for weaknesses when you’re looking straight into a mirror. …
Are you maximizing the potential benefits of the supplements you take? Your body is a temple that deserves only the best products, so you might as well use them correctly. Darryn Willoughby, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance and Recreation at Baylor University, as well as a former …
“Abs are made in the kitchen,” the fitness saying goes. But a more accurate rephrasing would be, “Abs are revealed in the kitchen.” They’re made in the gym, during your ab workouts and even total-body training. That’s where you build the muscle tissue that dieting later reveals by removing excess belly fat. Once you’ve …
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...]