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Alex Roberts What Are the Worst Exercises? What are your least favorite exercises? This is a question I recently asked viewers on my YouTube channel. Before I reveal their responses, let me explore my least favorite exercises. Dumbbell Flyes. I know, I'm supposed to love this exercise. But I...

Triceps often take the backseat to biceps when you are on a quest for bigger arms. Why? When you flex do you naturally roll up your sleeve and hit a triceps shot? No, you invariably curl up your arm to show off your biceps while your triceps hang unnoticed underneath figuratively backstage...

Steve Shaw The Ultimate 16 Week Bench Press Workout Program I've never been a gifted bench presser. In fact, a failed bench press set nearly drove me to quit lifting after just one workout. Pull up a chair and let me tell you a story. It was 1986 and I was a skinny-fat college freshman with...

Alex Roberts 5 Shoulder and Chest Press Movements You're Not Doing Getting stuck in a training rut happens to the best of us. We start a new workout plan with specific exercises, specific rep ranges, specific rest times, and a specific amount of days to work out each week. If you are seeing...

Brad Borland 5 Best Triceps Exercises You've Never Heard Of Have you ever heard this before: Hey, show me your triceps? Yeah, I didn't think so. Our triceps get little love in the physique world. Our selfies carry plenty of biceps, abs and chest shots with little attention given to those lonely...

Marc Lobliner 5 Moves to Perfect Cannonball Delts Broad shoulders set us apart from mere mortals. The roundness; the squared up look tapering so perfectly into a lean, aesthetic waist. Chicks dig that stuff (and dudes dig it if you're a chick). It makes you look powerful, even in a business...

Brad Borland How to Get a Bigger Chest: The Intermediate's Guide Chest development is arguably the most sought-after item on the average gym-goers "to-do" list. Whether you're a "functional trainer" or not, the quest for a bigger chest is ages old and doesn't seem to be going away any time soon...

You stroll into the gym fired up to train your upper body, but all the benches are taken, the dumbbell rack is a war zone, and cable stations are backed up like it’s Black Friday. Before you consider bailing out, take a look in the corner. There it is: one lonely kettlebell waiting just for you...

Alex Roberts Build Big Shoulders: 6 Press Exercises For Hardcore Delts The press was one of three lifts in Olympic lifting until 1972 when it was deleted due to hardship in judging. I feel it's easier to judge than the other two lifts, the snatch, and clean and jerk. But enough of that - let's...

Marc Lobliner 5 Moves to Perfect Cannonball Delts Broad shoulders set us apart from mere mortals. The roundness; the squared up look tapering so perfectly into a lean, aesthetic waist. Chicks dig that stuff (and dudes dig it if you're a chick). It makes you look powerful, even in a business...

It is common knowledge in the strength and conditioning world that variables of training must constantly change to ensure continued progress. One of these important variables is exercise selection. And although I think exercises should be switched every four to six weeks, athletes should stick...

Alex Roberts 7 Amazing & Obscure Exercises You Must Try Today Unless you are involved with fitness for a living and you have 3 hours a day to spend in the gym, making the most out of your lifting time is a priority for you. Choosing the most effective movements that yield the highest return is...

A solid push day workout isn’t just about tossing weights around—it means training with purpose. Whether your goal is raw strength, muscle growth, explosive power, or functional stability, your workout’s structure makes all the difference. Instead of a generic routine, these four push-day...

Alex Roberts Advanced Chest Training - 5 Alternative Chest Exercises it's Monday and you know what that means? If you?re like the rest of the world, it signifies chest day. Despite the ridiculousness of that mentality (read: I hope you train chest a little more often than that) you most-likely...

What do you do within triceps training? Pressdowns, skullcrushers/nosebreakers, maybe a kickback or two? Are your triceps growing or do you need an intervention because you are still doing the same old boring routine full of the aforementioned exercises and not seeing the results you want? Yes...

Steve Shaw Strength Training Cycle - 16 Week Building & Peaking Workout Program ....by Steve Shaw This strength training cycle is comprised of 2 phases: 8 Week Powerbuilding Stage - You will be trying to build strength and muscle while using more conventional rep ranges. 8 Week Peaking Cycle -...

To those of us after beefy amounts of muscle mass, and enough strength to surprise and amaze those watching us, workout systems are an obsession. We analyze - and overanalyze - every small thing we do in the gym. Refinement and optimization is the goal. But this obsession with building the...

Rest-pause training. It's one of my favorite ways to build muscle. Forget normal sets and reps. Instead, think brutality. Intensity. Limited rest. Heart-racing, pump-inducing madness. Back in the day I created a lifting style called Bulldozer training. It featured a specific number of sets for...

When you first walked into the gym, did you turn and see a bench press that looked broken? It’s like the back is too low. This rarely used gem is usually a towel rack for other gym patrons, but today is the day you knock their crap off and start using it. I’m sure you’re aware how potent of a...

Before we get to the workout though, here's some important points to keep in mind: Lift Heavy The days of going super high reps for ultra-light weight are gone. You're shedding fat here, not muscle. To keep your muscle while eating at a deficit, you have to lift heavy weights. Nutrition Clean...