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Triathlete: Fine Tune Your Body
Whether you're a seasoned triathlete or a weekend warrior that loves running, biking, and swimming, you'll want to check out the following two challenging posture exercises. I hand-picked these exercises ... Continue Reading
Maximize Leg Power with Mobility Routines
Focusing on movement efficiency should be a primary aim of any well-constructed strength and conditioning program. Moving well requires a combination of mobility (flexibility and range of motion within the ... Continue Reading
5 Movements to Unlock Your Leg Power
Focusing on movement efficiency should be a primary aim of any well-constructed strength and conditioning program. Moving well requires a combination of mobility (flexibility and range of motion within the ... Continue Reading
Your 1RM Present: A 4-Week End of Year Strength Program
This programs is designed for an intermediate-advanced level weightlifter. It is high volume and builds to higher intensity in week four. It should not be attempted by those with a back squat 1RM that is ... Continue Reading
Bottoms-up: Press Stimulation
“Wait, the bottoms-up press is more than just a nifty trick?” That’s right! Most athletes have attempted a bottoms-up press, but typically only for fun, novelty, or perhaps for a bet. I know almost zero ... Continue Reading
Connect Your Lifting and Rowing For Better Performance
If you know how to lift weights properly, you know how to row. It might not be quite that simple, but the basic mechanics are very similar. Traditional Barbell Deadlift Take the deadlift, for ... Continue Reading
A Simple Workout Plan for Serious Mass Gain
The age-old desire to build a strong, well-proportioned physique is still alive and well. Yes, the average gym-goer no longer yearns to build a monstrous, freaky, eye-popping body complete with gnarly ... Continue Reading
Exercises for Balanced Yoga
Although yoga is a strengthening and balancing technique, it will not correct or fix existing postural issues that result from excessive sitting or lack of movement. Yoga is an ancient practice that was ... Continue Reading
Kettlebell Triple: Strength, Mobility, and Symmetry Exercises
Dan John has called the farmer’s walk the King of Carries1. If you combine it with the walking press, you have a perfectly paired pull/push combo that emphasizes stability in the anterior/posterior ... Continue Reading
Build a Pain Cave for Winter
The number of brave souls venturing out on our local club ride is beginning to dwindle. With the temperatures steadily dropping, the thought of venturing into the open sounds less attractive by the day. ... Continue Reading
An Everyday Path to Fitness: Short and Intense
I know many Breaking Muscle readers are here for the latest butt-kicking and hardcore workouts. A lot of you come here to find ideas and protocols that will challenge you to exert maximal effort and obtain ... Continue Reading
An 8-Week Training Plan for the Beginner Rower
The ergometer (a.k.a. "erg," C2, or rowing machine) can be an intimidating piece of exercise equipment. Most fitness machines offer pretty basic movement patterns. But the use of the erg is left open to ... Continue Reading
Starting Weightlifting Over 40
Years ago starting anything new past 40 years of age was unheard of. The over 40 crowd didn’t dare test the waters of anything new and different. One might hear discouraging things like “Act you age,” and ... Continue Reading
The 3-Phase Kettlebell Warm Up
Kettlebells are versatile training tools that offer a completely unique training effect. You can maximize the benefits of your kettlebell work with a proper warm up to ready your body for their unique ... Continue Reading
Obtaining Beast Powers Through Martial Arts
While my friends and I were discussing the amazing feats of the latest superhero program on television, it struck me that learning martial arts is like obtaining superpowers. Heck, Batman doesn’t have much ... Continue Reading
You Can Get Fit in a Quarter Hour
I know a personal trainer who owns a very successful personal training business that trains clients in fifteen minute sessions. Yes, 15:00 of high intensity, all-out, balls-to-the-wall effort. He obtains ... Continue Reading
Machines Still Build Muscles
In an industry that is all about three-dimensional, "functional" movement aimed at achieving maximum crossover to movement quality and performance, have we actually forgotten that fixed-resistance machines ... Continue Reading
Lightning Fast Transitions
The transition. It’s one of the most unique aspects of triathlon that you just don’t get with other sports. Although for some it’s simply a chance to take a short break before moving on to the next leg, ... Continue Reading
4 Core Exercises for Pull-Up Strength for Women
Many athletic women have a pull-up on their training bucket list. Pull-ups are more difficult for women as they generally have more muscle mass on their lower body in proportion to their upper body and ... Continue Reading
Train at Home on a Time Crunch
If you’re here, it’s most likely because you have a life, a job, a family, and interests, passions, and commitments outside of the gym. But you still want to make a commitment to your health, and of ... Continue Reading
5 Exercises for Fully Defined Ab Muscles
We are bombarded with magazine ads, infomercials, and Instagram pictures of fit looking people with shiny, rippling washboard abs. Most media hype would have you believe that in order to obtain that ... Continue Reading
Bikini Models and Baby Boomers Should Train the Same Way
Years ago, Vladimir Janda presented the distinction between the “tonic” muscles and the “phasic” muscles. The tonic muscles become tighter with age (pecs, biceps, hip flexors) and the “phasic” muscles ... Continue Reading
