Barbell Exercises
Floor Press: The Forgotten Chest Builder
You cannot walk through a weight room without seeing at least one person on the Bench Press. It’s arguably the most popular free weight exercise. But its long-lost cousin, the [...]
This 30-Minute Full-Body Workout Will Flatten Your Stomach
Time to hit every muscle fiber your body has and light up your metabolism with this full body workout. This fast paced, explosive full body workout that...
Get Strong With This Barbell-Only Workout
Like Shakespeare said, and I'm paraphrasing, "The training tools don't make the athlete." Alright, that's not Shakespeare, but what I mean is, you don't...
Strength Isn’t Just How Much You Can Lift on a Barbell
When you speak about strength or being strong, what do you imagine? An athlete hoisting a barbell loaded with heavy weight in a Squat or Bench Press? How about an [...]
2 Brutal Barbell Conditioning Workouts
Two Challenging and Convenient Sports Conditioning Barbell Workouts By Jim Carpentier, CSCS What's a school weight room without a barbell? The barbell...
UFC Welterweight Tyron Woodley’s Explosive MMA Barbell Circuit
Tyron “The Chosen One” Woodley doesn’t often hold a height advantage over opponents in the UFC welterweight division. However, the 5’9” Woodley possesses explosiveness and athleticism that is unmatched among [...]
Exercise of the Week: Tiki Barber’s Barbell Complex
The STACK Exercise of the Week helps you improve your overall sports performance—including strength, speed, conditioning and flexibility. The Exercise Barbell Complex Who Does It Tiki Barber, former NFL All-Pro [...]
This Exercise May Make You Puke (But It’ll Build Muscle Fast)
There are strength exercises. There are cardio exercises. And then there are good old-fashioned butt-whippin’s. Trainer Scot Prohaska’s barbell complex is all three, combining four strength and power moves that [...]
How to Perform Olympic Lifts, Part 3: Clean More Weight
In this three-part series on Olympic lifting, we explain the correct technique for these complicated lifts. The first two posts focused on Hang Cleans and Power Cleans. Here, in Part [...]
How to Build Muscle Fast With Complexes
I'm often asked, "What is the fastest way to build muscle?" Building muscle is all about time under tension, or the amount of time your muscles work under a load. [...]