For Big Shoulders, Ditch the Free Weights
4 Superior Cable Exercises for Delts
February 8
Tip: Turn Off the Hip Flexors to Build Abs
If you can easily knock out dozens of reps of an ab exercise, it's probably because your abs aren't doing much work. Fix that. Here's how.
February 5
Tip: Half Your Butt is Weak and Funny Looking
Are your glutes balanced or is one side weaker? Here's how to find out, and how to fix it.
February 3
Tip: 5 Inhibit-Activate Supersets
How to grow lagging muscles and move better.
February 2
Tip: Increase Triceps Size by 50% in 8 Weeks
This often neglected or maligned method of doing reps proved to work way better than the traditional way. Here's how.
February 1
Tip: Calling Out the Internet Injury Police – A Rant
Safe exercises, dangerous exercises, and ass-clowns.
January 31
Muscle Up Top, Hustle Down Below
Want a bodybuilder upper body and a linebacker lower body? Here's your program.
January 26
Tip: Do High Reps for Quad Size
If you're doing fewer than 12 reps for legs, you're just doing maintenance training. Try this instead.
January 24
Tip: Partial Reps for Full Muscle Growth
Not a newbie anymore? Then partial reps can be wildly effective. Here's why.
Tip: The Rear Delt Swing
Not feeling your rear delts with bent-over lateral raises? Do these higher-rep swings to finish off shoulder day.
Tip: Body Fat Percentage and Muscle Loss
How do you keep muscle while losing fat? Answers here.
January 23
Tip: In Defense of Higher-Rep Compound Exercises
Some coaches say to never do high reps with compound barbell movements. They're wrong. Here's why.
Tip: Cable Straight-Arm Pulldown Drop Set
Hit your lats throughout the range of motion with this untraditional drop set.
Tip: Fix Your Row, Fix Your Shoulders
Here are the most common mistakes made with the horizontal row (and how to fix them).
January 22
Tip: One-Arm Cable Rear-Delt Flye Drop Set
Change the angle to really nail your rear delts.
January 21
Tip: Front Shoulder Raise Drop Set
Build full-range strength with this drop set by going from sitting to supine.
January 20
Tip: The Curtsy Lunge
Nail your glutes and challenge your overall mobility, stability, and strength with this lunge variation.
January 19
Tip: Calf Training – The Right Way
Hold the bottom, stretched position for 5 seconds and the top, peak contraction for 3 seconds for optimal calf growth.
January 18
Tip: The Two-Up, One-Down Calf Press
Use the leg press for this one. Lift with both feet, hold the contraction for 3 seconds, and lower slowly with one foot.
January 17
Tip: Banded Rows – Silly or Effective?
Bands are great tools for adding accommodating resistance, but do they work for one-arm rows? Sorta. Info here.