Weights
How Squats Benefits Your Athletic Performance
The Squat is an exercise that we all know will lead to strong legs. We know this; powerlifters have been proving it for years by lifting mammoth weights...
A Better Way to Warm Up With Heavy Weights
While foam rolling and dynamic warm-ups have become standard operating procedure for the modern athlete preparing for a lifting session, few trainees...
Weightlifting for Sprinters: Why You Need to Get Strong
Quick physics lesson: how do we get faster? Well, acceleration (a) equals force (f) divided by mass (m): a = f / m So if we want to accelerate faster...
How to Build a DIY Speed Sled
Speed sleds are great for helping athletes train to get faster or even stronger for whatever sport they play or for their own personal reasons. If...
Build Muscle With This Simple Upper-Body Workout Routine
To build muscle, every athlete needs a challenging upper body workout routine to work their muscles and stimulate muscle growth. For intermediate and...
A Bench That Can Change the Way You Train
Too often, people work in the gym without a spotter—either because they don't want to impose on a friend or they don't feel like tracking someone down mid-workout. People know [...]
Simple and Effective: This Mass-Building Workout Requires Just 5 Exercises Per Session
Increasing muscle mass is a goal of many athletes across all sports, and it very well should be. Any non weight class athletes (most sports) should aim...
NFL RB Zac Stacy Works to Get Faster for the 2015 Season
When the St. Louis Rams selected Georgia’s Todd Gurley in the first round of the 2015 NFL Draft, running back Zac Stacy asked to be traded rather than be trapped [...]
INFOGRAPHIC: Why Lifting Form Is Even More Important Than You Think
Athletes in training typically think they are making progress when they use heavier weights. In fact, success is not measured by how much you can lift. It’s about how well [...]
Are You Loading Barbells Wrong?
One of the first things you learn when starting to work out is to put plates on the barbell with the flat part facing out. A trainer or maybe a [...]