Leg extensions are one of the best ways to strengthen your quadriceps. This workout puts your quadriceps to the test and promotes muscular growth, strength, and tone despite its seemingly easy appearance. It’s a great way to round out your leg workout, however recently more and more people have been doing it first to pump … Read more
You attended a party, but you were careful about what you ate since you know that another two or three weeks of hard work in the gym and meal prep/dieting will reveal your last remaining two abs. You turn to find your long-lost friend Ryan, whom you haven’t seen in a year because he moved away … Read more
Internet slang, a weird beast full of phrases to out-shout your buddies or make yourself seem a bit cooler online, is a wonderful thing. If you’ve ever heard the word “brolic” used, you might be curious about its origin and meaning. The term “brolic” has emerged as a popular fitness buzzwords in recent years. However, what … Read more
Despite its divine sounding name, the Hindu pushup is more commonly associated with the realms of bodybuilding and wrestling than with yoga. Visit any “akhara,” or traditional Indian gym, and you’ll see hordes of wrestlers and strongmen performing what seems like a very advanced form of pushups. The rather complicated-looking movement is called the Hindu … Read more
Let me begin by asking you this – what’s the first exercise that comes to your mind when you think of a back workout? At first thought, more than half of us would think of lat pulldowns, and another significant portion would think of rows. Why is this so? Well, the majority of back workouts … Read more
The bench press and its variation, the dumbbell bench press, are excellent exercises for building a bigger chest. However, if you perform any of them too often, you risk injuring your shoulders, which you should avoid doing if you want to continue working out. Hammer presses, a variation of the dumbbell bench press are great … Read more
These days, there are machines that let you work out all of your major muscle groups. For shoulders alone, you will come across a vast range of machines in any commercial gym, one such machine is the lateral raise machine. The lateral raise machine works the shoulders, especially the lateral and front delts. If this machine … Read more
I know you want bigger arms (who doesn’t), which is awesome, but did you realize that your triceps account for more than two-thirds of your upper-arm mass? Triceps, the big muscles at the back of the upper arms, have one simple but important function: they extend the forearm. However, triceps are also responsible for a … Read more
While Liver King’s website emphasized that his mission was, “to put back what the modern world has left out, returning our people back to strength and happiness”, and he did gain millions of followers promoting misleading claims about the so-called ‘ancestral diet’, it turns out it all was a sham. Liver King, a popular fitness … Read more
One of the most effective ways to improve your mood and sense of well-being is to exercise, but you need to have enough stamina to really perform the moving around. You rapidly learn respect for the difficulty of your new workout plan when you begin it. Particularly so for exercises that emphasize cardiovascular movement. When … Read more