Training Articles
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Whether you're looking for new training tips, secrets from top athletes, new ways to target a muscle group, Q&As, new training philosophies, a way to shake up your routine or inspiration, you've come to the right place. These training articles provide education and information that you can take right to the gym for real-world application. From sports-specific articles--such as golf, football and baseball--to general bodybuilding best practices, there's a wealth of knowledge contained in these articles.
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5 Reasons You're Not Seeing Results and What You Can Do About It
If you've ever watched a hamster on a wheel, you've seen a perfect corollary to many a bodybuilder's predicament. That is, an endless burst of energy, leading nowhere.
So many of us settle for no results from ...
A Contrary Opinion: The Smith Machine
as Your One Key Mass-Builder
Goals: Size, Strength
Bodypart: Legs
Almost by default, hardcore bodybuilders will tell you that there is no substitute for free weight training. Some will go on to tell you that all manner of machines in gyms should be summarily ...
Take your muscles past failure using this proven training technique
Goals: Size, Detail
Bodypart: All
Building a better body requires failure. But when we say "failure," we don't mean failure of the "bar getting stuck on your neck" variety. We mean deep, muscle-shredding failure -- the kind that sets the ...
For sheer reward versus time invested, you can't beat squats
Goal: Size, Strength
Bodyparts: Legs
It is an almost universally feared exercise for its ability to summarily crush one's ego ... and blood sugar and pain tolerance and ability to hold down a meal or walk like a homo sapien. ...
Follow the science on rep ranges to maximize results year-round
Goal: Strength, Size, Conditioning
Bodyparts: ALL
As gym rats we are creatures of habit, slaves to nostalgia. We love doing what's comfortable, what's worked in the past. We love to revisit yesteryear's routines and to relive the athletic prowess of ...
Another super-targeted 15-minute workout for your on-the-go holidays
Goal: Size, Detail
Bodyparts: Chest, delts, triceps
You may have heard all you want to hear about vascularity, pumps and vasodilators, but there's actual science backing the pump. Higher volume training draws more blood and fluids to working muscles, placing a stretch ...
A 15-minute workout perfect for your hectic holiday schedule
Goal: Staying Lean, Building Muscle
Bodyparts: Low back, hamstrings, lats, glutes, biceps, forearms
* Use your bodyweight.
--Perform all 10 supersets consecutively, with no rest in between.
--Aim for 5-10 pull-ups on each set.
Doesn't look like much, does it? Maybe ...
A Comprehensive Program For Adding
Rock-Hard Mass While Improving Strength
This program is designed to give you
huge muscles,
defined cuts, and
super strength. Furthermore, it is also designed to give you the
best recovery possible while allowing you to hit each major muscle group in a week -- a ...
Eating tips to prevent the widening of your winter waistline
Goal: Staying Lean
Bodyparts: All
Thanksgiving weekend was just the beginning. Soon, you'll be invited to a multitude of holiday parties, each teeming with cocktails, cocktail weenies, pies, pudding and an otherwise tantalizing lineup of indulgent, high-calorie foods. That's great, ...
Go from weakling to warrior by building
these two exercises into your routine
Goal: Performance
Bodyparts: All
You train to look great but you also want to BE great. But if you're getting burned deep in your flag football league, or if your above-the-rim game has started to head south, ...
Use some calculated body English to build bolder shoulders
Goal: Size, Strength
Bodyparts: Shoulders
Those who play by the rules tend to live cozy, conventional lives, devoid of the extraordinary, free from improvisation. But when it comes to your physique, sometimes you have to throw the rule book into the ...
A power movement to build mass
in your shoulders and back
Goal: Size
Bodyparts: All
Saying that explosive, Olympic-style lifts are not for you is like saying that you are perfectly content with your current (and perhaps deficient) levels of strength, size and athleticism. The fact is that these types ...
Are you using the right exercises in your quest for bigger arms?
Goal: Size
Bodyparts: All
The pulley on your gym's triceps pressdown machine is worn. It's ragged. It's tired. It is fatigued from years of overuse by lifters that have become over-reliant on this single-joint movement for building better ...
Blow Past Plateaus and Build Strength with LVR Training
Goal: Strength
Bodyparts: All
When it comes to getting strong, there are no magic wands, no miracle programs -- no substitutes for hard work and a willingness to push yourself harder week to week. But there may be some strategies worth ...
Gain Strength and Size With These Tips for Maximizing Your Lift
Goal: Strength
Bodyparts: Back, legs
In the strength game, there are few names that are more respected than
Marty Gallagher. Let's be honest: A man who can deadlift 744 pounds from the floor at a bodyweight of 235 pounds ...
Rip up with this underestimated move for
abdominal strength, endurance and stability
Goal: Strength, Endurance
Bodyparts: Abs (transverse abdominis)
What is the most important abdominal exercise you can do? Well, it depends on who you ask but the answers usually range from the almighty crunch to the ubiquitous leg raise. ...
Build a barn door back with this high-yield routine
Goal: Strength, Size
Bodyparts: Back (outer lats)
Your back can be one of the hardest muscle groups to train, mainly because you can't train it with the benefit of mirrors. And without visual cues to encourage peak contraction and proper range ...
Build a Set of Pro-Quality Hamstrings
With a Maxed-Out Romanian Deadlift
Goal: Size, Strength, Detail
Bodyparts: Hamstrings
Take a look at any
Mr. Olympia or
Arnold Classic winner. While the physiques may boast different show-stopping qualities, one common bond that all champs share is a beefy, sickly-striated set of hamstrings. ...
Use this Lower Abs-Focused Routine to Turn Your 6-Pack Into an 8-Pack
Goal: Strength, Detail
Bodyparts: Lower Abs
It's a sad fact that most guys who think they have good abs are only partially correct. More often than not, the upper half of their rectus abdominis -- the wall of ...
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