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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Master these three moves to build aesthetics
and athletics
It's good to train for strength and size but unless you're planning on someday setting foot on the Olympia stage, simply training for appearances can be a very limiting pursuit. Even bodybuilders will tell you that they're not as strong as ...
Change up your gym routine and be a round-the-clock, fat-fighting machine
Goal: Get Lean
Bodyparts: All
Those who want to get lean, almost universally, are impatient folks. They don't want to get lean tomorrow, or see a shredded physique pro staring back at them from the mirror in a few ...
Your ticket to better looking biceps runs through the strength department
Goals: Strength
Bodypart: Biceps
A lot of dudes talk about wanting "stronger looking" biceps. Rarely do you hear a guy talking about wanting his biceps to actually be stronger. Why not? Increasing strength in this muscle group can yield ...
Strategizing Carb Intake to Maximize Fat-Loss and Muscle-Gain Results
Want to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time? Want to have a ripped physique but also have super-freak strength? Having a great training program like the Ripped Strong Program and doing some cardio will get you far, but ...
Using total poundage markers to ensure
consistent gains in strength and size
Goals: Strength, Size
Bodyparts: All
Sometimes, it's hard to know if you're making any progress in the gym. Visually, you may notice a new vein pop up in your forearms, or there may be a little more shadow ...
Alternate muscle group supersets to get a big pump in a short session
Goals: Strength, Size, Detail
Bodyparts: All
Supersets are one of the most common pre-contest techniques employed by bodybuilders and fitness models. This preferred, high-intensity protocol entails training opposing muscle groups in succession with little to no rest. ...
Use these tips to get the most out of your low intensity cardio
Goals: Conditioning, Fat Loss
Bodyparts: All
The reputation of steady-state cardio has taken a "HIIT" in recent years with the volumes of research affirming the fat-burning benefits of high-intensity cardio. Still, "some" cardio beats "none" and if ...
Take your workouts to the next level
with these bodyweight variations
Goals: Strength, Conditioning
Bodyparts: Legs, Chest
Most hardcore gym devotees read the term "bodyweight exercise" and yawn dismissively.
Bodyweight exercises don't build quality muscle, they say to themselves before heading to the squat rack. But remember -- building your ...
Shock your legs into new three-dimensional growth
Goals: Size, Strength, Details
Bodypart: Legs
If you live and die by the squat, we commend you. This exercise, which recruits a huge amount of muscle, is fundamental to total body growth. Starting your routine with the squat is a sure-fire way to ...
Put Your Body Fat on Notice with High-Intensity Interval Training
We all want to burn more fat, but the thought of cardio can leave us feeling ill. For anaerobic types who are used to going hard, resting and going again, the thought of pounding away on a treadmill is less ...
This simple tweak to your regimen will add strength and size faster
Goals: Size, Strength
Bodypart: All
When you do your sets "pyramid" style, how do you go about things? If you're like most, you do what you learned to do when you were a rookie weight lifter -- start ...
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 ...
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