strength and conditioning

Don't get hung up on one particular style of training but use variety of different exercises, rep ranges, and training styles.

A training cycle, like a story, has a beginning, middle, and end, and each has elements that are necessary for it to work.

Looking for some good leg workouts? Here are five straight-forward workouts to strengthen your lower body. Includes full workouts details and a downloadable form for logging.

There's no real universal prescription for something as subjective as "success" or worse, "fitness."

The end of year is the time businesses get their plans in order for the following year. You should do the same for yourself.

The addition of a band anchored behind you allows you to keep tension on the muscle throughout the entire range.

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

Here are some proven exercises to help create explosive power and strength in your legs.

Don’t get me wrong, pronated wide grip pulldowns are a good exercise, but they aren’t ideal to train the lats.

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

Take some time to see how training methods and philosophies play out over time, but always plan to reevaluate again and again.

In other words, if your deadlift is 300lbs and you can back squat 255lbs or more, it’s time to work on building up your deadlift a bit.

Don’t worry about your precious muscle. The body is wicked smart and resilient, and it will adapt accordingly.

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.

Here are five exercises to fire up that glute-hamstring combo.

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

Always remember to stay open minded to new ways of lifting in order to maximize your genetic potential.