Building muscle is beneficial to your health, but you don’t have to be a gym-goer. Do these exercises to build muscle without equipment. Want to get rid of body fat while increasing lean muscle mass and supporting bone health? Strength training is what you need. Many people associate it with lifting weights or using different […]
You can lose weight without using a jumping rope. Incorporate these weight loss exercises without jumping to your fitness routine. Jumping is a basic exercise that is easy to perform anytime, anywhere without any equipment required. Jumping can be incorporated as a part of your warm-up exercise or can be beneficial to lose weight. Jumping […]
Special Ops Tactical Fitness | Patrol Officer Tactical Fitness | Firefighter Tactical Fitness | Pass Your PT Test If you work in law enforcement, corrections, firefighting, or any branch of the military, passing a physical fitness test (also known as a PT test) is going to be a reality. Luckily, we’ve all been trained since …
Hannah Gane’s story is unusual, but unfortunately, parts of it are all too common; after years of suffering from extreme anorexia, her illness would have claimed her life if she hadn’t made a drastic change. Inspired by images of bodybuilders and physique competitors, Gane took up weightlifting and her whole world changed. Now, instead of pushing her body to unhealthy extremes, …
Moms rock our world. Growing up, when they’re not reading us stories or kissing our boo-boos, they’re driving us to sports practices and making sure our sandwiches have the ideal ratio of peanut butter to jelly. Moms make so many sacrifices that we only appreciate years later, so this Mother’s Day, we wanted to …
You want to gain mass, but you don’t want to add excess body fat along with it. Seems reasonable, right? But the bro-science on the internet calls for extreme swings in the direction of “bulking,” meaning eating as many calories as humanly possible, followed by a period of extreme “cutting.” Many consider this to …
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 …
Sure, we would all love to be lean and ripped, not just for summer but all year long. But while some claim to relish the down-and-dirty, in-the-trenches hard work that such a physique requires, most of us aren’t quite ready for a 24/7, no-holds-barred commitment. Instead, we ask in all fairness: “Does it have …
It’s the same in gyms around the globe: If it’s Monday, it’s chest day. Yep, guys of all shapes, sizes, and training levels give their pecs the leadoff spot in their splits. And it’s not hard to figure out why. Chest training is fun. You get the instant gratification of pushing a heavy weight …
Wasted effort—it’s a momentum killer no matter the setting, whether it’s a project at work that goes nowhere or a home improvement project that you finish only to find out you need to rip out everything and restart because of a measuring error. In the gym, though, far too many people waste plenty of …
Lifters are getting smarter. They know that it’s not just about how big their bench press is; going heavy isn’t the only way to make muscles grow. Being able to add weight to the bar is the byproduct of the gains you make from previous workouts—and from implementing other training strategies, like eccentric loading …
Subscribe To Podcast | More Episodes Listen To Podcast Episode #60 Podcast Episode 60: How to Eat for Strength Without Budging the Scale. “Weight gain” and “weight loss” tend to dominate fitness and nutrition conversations. But what if you want—or your sport demands—that the number on the scale doesn’t change all that much? Doug …
CrossFit is everywhere. If you haven’t already tried it yourself, you probably know someone who has. Your best friend’s girlfriend won’t shut up about it. Even your boss heads to the “box” during lunch hour. Because it’s become so popular and many people have achieved impressive results from doing it, it’s understandable to be …
One reason the answer to “How to lose weight?” is so messy is because it’s actually the wrong question to ask! Why? Because the number on the scale isn’t describing one thing, it’s describing two things: fat mass and fat-free mass. One of them is fair game for burning, and the other is something …
You can’t have strong, defined arms without dedicating time and effort to training your triceps. The problem is most lifters don’t really understand how to integrate the different heads of the triceps—and plenty of those who think they do have been misinformed. Do I have your attention? Let’s get all three heads in the game. […]
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...]