Traps
Three Upper Back Exercises to Strengthen Your Shoulders
The shoulder lets you perform a myriad of sports skills, such as throwing a football and serving in tennis, because it has a greater range of motion than any other [...]
Improve Sport-Specific Muscle Memory By “Chunking”
Chunking: an odd word to associate with sports. According to the “athletic brain” researchers at AxonPotential.com, it's the process athletes use to mentally organize information so they can make good [...]
Exercise of the Week: Power Shrug
What separates athletes from bodybuilders? One key difference: the incorporation of multi-joint, functional exercises into athletes' training routines. It makes no sense to perform predominantly isolation exercises when muscles are [...]
Exercise of the Week: Dumbbell Shoulder Dropset Circuit
For athletes in any contact sport, strong and large shoulders are essential for dishing out and absorbing contact. Thomas Jones, Kansas City Chiefs RB, embraces this philosophy by making sure [...]
Improve Shoulder Stability
Properly training your shoulders requires more than building huge traps and delts. Other, equally important stabilizing muscles must be strengthened to improve shoulder performance and maintain health. Your shoulders’ support [...]
Four Pillar Exercises to Create Upper Body Strength
Performing exercises that target the entire upper body—not just the chest—sets true athletes apart from those concerned with just looking good. If your muscle group has a strength deficiency, you may [...]
Exercise of the Week: Single-Arm Dumbbell Push Press
Athletes rely on strong shoulders to develop a countless number of skills—like throwing a pitch, smashing a serve or absorbing a hit. Strong shoulder muscles can powerfully move the arm [...]
Exercise of the Week: RDL With Shoulder Shrug
Challenging your body as much as possible during a training session will improve your strength. However, since you don’t have all day to spend in the weight room, it’s important [...]
How to Effectively Develop Lat Strength
The Lat Pulldown is an extremely popular exercise. No gym is complete without at least one pulldown machine. Yet, despite its popularity, the exercise lacks a standardized technique. It’s frequently [...]
Exercise of the Week: Doug Crashley's Bear Mountain
No matter what sport you play, you use your whole body. To develop the total body strength you need to improve, your exercises should focus on generating explosive power from [...]