Body Weight
12 Effective Arm Exercises Without Weights
12 Sports Performance And Size-Building Arm Exercises Without Weights By Jim Carpentier, CSCS Muscular arms are not just for show. Strong and powerful...
At-Home Bodyweight Hockey Workouts
In this article, I want to show you some of the most effective bodyweight hockey training drills and workouts that you can do to start improving your hockey-specific speed, conditioning, [...]
The Simplest Bodyweight Workout Ever
Bodyweight workouts are perfect for athletes that are stuck at home with no access to a weight room and little, or no, available equipment. Using only...
4 Push-Up Variations For A Bigger Chest and Arms
Most consider the Bench Press the king of pressing exercises; however, most athletes and exercise enthusiasts can make tremendous gains with Push-Ups and their variations. Before we start rifling off [...]
Athlete Benchmarks: How Much Weight Should You Lift?
How much do you bench? This is probably the first thing you’ll get asked when you talk about working out.
Test Your Lower-Body Strength With the Goblet Squat Challenge
There’s a good chance you’re not strong enough to Back Squat. Yet, this is the first Squat variation that many you will attempt if you haven’t already. Maybe this is [...]
10 Things the Strongest Athletes in the Weight Room Have in Common
On every team—or in a weight room—there’s always a group of athletes who are stronger than the pack. It might seem like these athletes were gifted with natural-born strength and [...]
How to Harness Coffee’s Sports Performance Benefits
Caffeine is a legal performance enhancing drug, in fact, it's even on the WADA's monitoring program for possible in-competition abuse. Caffeine has been...
Combine Freeweight and Bodyweight Exercises for Easy Supersets
Body Weight vs. Free Weight Exercises? Two Tough Workouts Mixing Both Training Methods By Jim Carpentier, CSCS Visualize a gym with one side comprising...
3 Reasons Why Athletes Should Limit Cardio Workouts
It's a cliché scene in nearly every sports movie you have seen since you were a kid. The tough underdog jogs into the night sporting an unimpressive...