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The Ultimate Chest and Back Workout for Upper Body Muscle

Ready for an efficient workout to build your upper body by creating a more sculpted chest and a more muscular back? Rethink your training week and step away from the usual workout split. Training chest ... Continue Reading

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Try These HIIT Treadmill Workouts for Different Goals

When it’s time to hit the gym, most people instinctively gravitate toward hitting the weights. That’s certainly an understandable course of action, since weight training plays a role in everything from ... Continue Reading

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The Ultimate Back and Biceps Workout for Every Lifter From Beginner to Advanced

Pairing your back and biceps in one workout has been a classic muscle-building session for decades. It’s a time-tested approach that’s reliable, effective, and it simply makes sense — the majority of ... Continue Reading

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Try These Biceps Workouts Without Weights for Muscle, Strength, and Fat Loss

Ask 1,000 random lifters if they desire more muscular arms and very few (honest) souls will tell you “no.” The biceps are among the most visible body parts, and an impressive set of guns will usually make ... Continue Reading

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The Only Airport Workout You’ll Need When Traveling

Travel season is upon us. For many, that means spending time in airports. Aside from the expected overpriced bottled water, bad chain restaurant food, and long lines for much-needed coffee, airport travel ... Continue Reading

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Try These Hotel Workouts to Stay Fit During Holiday Travel

Travel is inevitably associated with a departure from normal routine, but regular resistance exercise is one habit you don’t want to leave behind.  Resistance training helps to maintain and improve ... Continue Reading

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Try These 3 Air Bike Workouts for Conditioning, Fat Loss, and More

Modern air bikes are far from the creaky machines your parents had at the local Y decades ago. Today’s machines are overbuilt and imposing. With bigger fans, heavier components, and electronic performance ... Continue Reading

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The Best HIIT Workouts With Bodyweight, With Kettlebells, and More

Whether you call it conditioning, metcon, or plain old “cardio,” some type of cardiovascular training is necessary to achieve results you can’t replicate with standard weight training alone. While there ... Continue Reading

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The Best Dumbbell Ab Workouts for a Stronger, Better-Looking Core

Ab training is not only about aesthetics and making your abs look better. Yes, these workouts will check both of those boxes, but these specialized training plans can also help you understand that your ... Continue Reading

Chris Hemsworth 50-rep Full-Body Workout August 2022

Actor Chris Hemsworth Issued a Five-Round, 50-Rep Full-Body Workout Challenge

Ever since he entered the public eye as an actor, Chris Hemsworth has usually made it a point to keep up with his strength training and overall fitness. Between his film work, Hemsworth has spent some of ... Continue Reading

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The Best Landmine Workouts for More Muscle and Better Conditioning

Perhaps you’ve seen a lifter pressing, twisting, or rowing a barbell by rotating it on end. Appropriately named, these landmine exercises produce lethally effective workouts. Landmine training is performed ... Continue Reading

Chris Hemsworth Minimal Equipment Workout August 2022

Check Out Chris Hemsworth’s Minimal Equipment Workout on a Naval Ship

Actor Chris Hemsworth is well known for his strength and ripped physique befitting a fictional interpretation of the mythological Norse God Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). From time to time, ... Continue Reading

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The Best Sled Workouts for Muscle, Strength, Fat Loss, and Recovery

The humble sled has made its way from American football gridirons, into strongman gyms, through CrossFit “boxes,” and has arrived as a mainstay of everyday training. The sled’s rise to ubiquity is fueled ... Continue Reading

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20-Minute Workouts for Muscle, Fat Loss, Strength, and More

You get 24 hours every day. They’re yours to do whatever you want or, more accurately, whatever you need to get done. Once you start subtracting six or seven hours of sleep, eight or nine hours of work, ... Continue Reading

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Two-A-Day Workouts Explained: Better Results Without Overtraining

Some lifters believe the more they work out, the better their results will be. That might mean training every day of the week or grinding out monstrous three-hour sessions in the gym. However, to ... Continue Reading

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EMOM Training Explained: Watch the Clock for More Gains

If there’s one way most lifters can improve their training plan, it’s not about fixing their time spent training. It’s about fixing their time spent not training. Rest between sets is an extremely ... Continue Reading

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The Best Triceps Workouts for Muscle, Strength, and More

Ask 10 lifters to name the body part they’re training on any random day, and you’ll probably hear some familiar answers — chest, back, arms, biceps, maybe even legs. But very few will say they’re working ... Continue Reading

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Why You Should Be Greasing the Groove During Your Workouts

Practice makes perfect, right? Wrong. Only perfect practice makes perfect. Practicing the correct skill is more important than repeating any random thing and hoping for the best. Whether you’re practicing ... Continue Reading

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The Best Shoulder Workouts for More Muscle, For Strength, For Beginners, and More

Training the shoulders may not be at the top of the list for most lifters. It doesn’t even make the list at all for some, and they skip it entirely. But the shoulders (a.k.a. the deltoids or delts) can ... Continue Reading

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The Best Bodyweight Workouts for Muscle, Strength, Conditioning, and More

If you were to challenge someone to get into shape without stepping into a gym, they'd be confused. It's as if some people still believe you can only build muscle, get stronger, or improve conditioning by ... Continue Reading

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The Best Back Workouts for More Muscle, for Strength, for Beginners, and More

Although it isn't one of the “mirror muscles” — body parts looking back in your reflection like the chest, shoulders, and arms — a well-developed back will balance your physique. A strong back will also ... Continue Reading

How to Build Big Arms

The Definitive Guide on How to Build Big Arms

If you lift, then you probably want to look like you lift. And for many gym-goers, looking the part includes owning a pair of arms that put the seams of your sleeves to the test. Aesthetically, big arms ... Continue Reading

Bodybuilding 101 for Powerful Physique Sculpting

5 Effective and Simple Upper Body Strength Routines

There are thousands of ways to resistance train. Provided you work hard and safely, document the results, allow enough recovery time between workouts, and then train progressively, resistance training will ... Continue Reading

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A Vacation’s Worth of Simple, Effective Workouts

So, you’re going on vacation and are stoked about the mental and physical break from the gym. But you also know an entire week of drinking and a lax diet, all the while not getting your heart rate ... Continue Reading

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