training plan

Think of the Smith machine floor press as a chest and triceps building “finisher” to your workout.

Your training is only a small part of your overall fitness and health program.

Assuming that building strength and muscle ranks highly among your training priorities, then you may be interested to learn about ascending reps.

All beginners and many intermediates run into the same fundamental problem, they don’t have a pre-existing understanding of nutrition and exercise.

The limitation of many dumbbell (DB) isolation exercises is the fact that the resistance profile of the exercises does not match up to the muscle’s strength curve.

More stimulus equals more gains.

If you are not creating an environment for growth, you are creating one for injury.

This training plan is designed for the adult rower looking to hold on to aerobic endurance and strength.

Your ability to move up and down the spectrum of specificity based on what will yield the best long term results is a critical skill.

You can get more out of your strength training by understanding how to change the speed of your reps and using pauses, otherwise known as tempo training.

Every repetition is an opportunity to get better.

Are you running toward something or looking for a way out?

Training without analysis isn’t really training at all. It's not about smashing yourself and trying to get as sore or tired or beaten as possible.

Strength training and conditioning for athletes is not the same as that for the average Joe. They're in a class of their own.

It depends. That's the best answer for anyone who wants to know what to do in the gym because fitness has plenty of fads, buzzwords, crazes, and trends that just don't work.

Training comes down to stress management. The more you can apply, and the more you can handle, the better your results will be, and the faster they’ll come.

If you want to develop yourself through many practices, even if only very slowly and recreationally, you need to create structure before you add.