Learn how proper breathing, bracing, and technique support safer and stronger lifting by helping you maintain control, stability, and performance during strength-training exercises.
Add variety and new stimulus to your workouts with seven advanced exercise variations designed to challenge your muscles, improve training progress, and keep your strength program moving forward.
The reverse hyperextension is an excellent movement for the posterior chain. To enhance its effect, resistance bands can be added to provide greater overload where you want it (hips extended) and less where you don’t (hips flexed). The advantage of using elastic resistance instead of just weight plates is that it allows you to accelerate…
Discover a focused one-lift-a-day training approach that removes unnecessary exercise volume and uses simple, targeted programming to build size, strength, recovery, and long-term progress.
Learn seven advanced exercise modifications that use grip changes, range-of-motion adjustments, and technique tweaks to create new training stimulus and improve long-term strength progress.
Explore the difference between true strength training progress and shortcut thinking, including the role of discipline, smart programming, and consistent work in building long-term muscle and performance.
A common concern from many female clients involves gaining too much size in their legs from strength training. Here’s how to deal with that issue.
The state of strength training in North America is outdated. We seem to be many years behind the Europeans in this field. Most of the curriculum in our schools today deals with aerobic training spurred by the Dr. Kenneth Cooper movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. To make matters worse, the value of…
In Part 2 of this series, we take a look at how aesthetics affects the exercises you select for your clients. Check it out!
If there’s one constant in strength training, it’s variety. Those who vary their programs will often make consistent progress. What’s common in most programs, however, is a lack of variety! Most trainees do the same thing over and over, not only between routines but also within them. They perform the same exercises and set/rep schemes;…