Bigger Bench Press
ON CHEST DAY, lots of guys work with the sole aim of piling as much weight as possible onto a barbell in order to bench press. The strength training staple is one of the premier exercises that will consistently...
The Benefits Of Using Kettlebells
In theory lifting a weight is the same regardless of its shape. In practice however anyone who’s had to lift his mum’s biggest garden pot, knows this is not the case. Shape, handles and center of gravity do mak...
3 Useless Chest Exercises to Avoid—and 3 Muscle-Building Moves to Do Instead
IN THE AGE of peak fitness influence on social media, there's no shortage of exercises circulating your feed. While it's nice to have a vast library of movements to keep your days in the gym interesting, many o...
Get Fit At Home, The Strategy
Home fitness is a challenge. There are a lot of bodyweight exercises that will easily help you build and maintain muscle at home. Starting a home-based fitness regime however and maintaining it long enough to s...
5 Must-Do Exercises to Strengthen Your Lower Back
IT'S EASY TO forget about your lower back—until you get to the point where it's hurting. What might be confusing for some people about about low back training is that it's going to be done by strengthening your...
How To Change Any Exercise Into A Resistance, Cardio or Aerobic Workout
We’re used to qualifying workouts and, indeed, exercises, as Resistance, Cardio or Aerobic. This broad categorization is fine when we need a quick way to choose the type of exercise we are going to do but reall...
How To Get Rid Of Loose Skin After Weight Loss
Skin is the body’s largest organ by volume. As adults we carry, on average, 8 pounds (3.6 kilograms) and 22 square feet (2 square meters) of it. It has the capacity to stretch and grow as we do and it keeps our...
How To Stay Fit Without A Gym
We obviously believe that exercise is something that you can do on your own, any time, anywhere which is why we have a database of thousands of workouts of every level and category you can focus on and do at ho...
How To Stay Healthier Longer
We all want a long, healthy life. These two things however don’t always go together. As life gets longer, if it does, health becomes harder to retain. This is the struggle between lifespan and healthspan. Given...
Physical Training And A Woman’s Hormone Cycle
Since June 1905, when Ernest Starling, a professor of physiology at University College London, UK, first used the word 'hormone' in one of four Croonian Lectures we’ve come to better understand the role hormone...
How to Improve Your Cable Crossover for Better Chest Gains
THE CABLE CROSSOVER might be top in your arsenal of chest exercises. The traditional way of doing them, though, might not be optimal for gaining chest size and strength, contrary to what all the gym bros will t...
A Complete Guide To Spinning Kicks
Anyone who’s watched a martial arts film can’t help but get excited the moment the spinning kicks start flying. They are cinematically spectacular, improbably athletic and viscerally exciting. They seem to mix ...
How Food Presentation Affects Our Fitness
We eat with our mouth and digest with our stomach but it is our eyes that apparently drive our appetite. Because appetite is what aids digestion the way our food looks is now key to how much of its nutrients ou...
Training On The Weekends vs Training Every Day
When it comes to exercise there are two groups of people: those who love it and those who tolerate it. Both groups however struggle with time. In the modern world no one has enough of it and even those of us wh...
How To Exercise Twice a Day
Working out twice a day sounds like one of those solutions to the problem of fitness that is theoretically possible but practically improbable. We all think that if we could train twice a day we’d get fitter, s...
A Physical Therapist Shares 4 Essential Chest Stretches for Mobility
Bench presses, dumbbell flies, and pushup variations can be some of the most rewarding movements in a training split—there's nothing like a good chest pump at the end of an upper-body focused lifting session. B...
Walking Strategy for Weightloss
Despite having evolved to get about on two legs we all have to, at some point, learn to run properly. Walking, on the other hand, seems something we have evolved to do for over 6 million years. Because it feels...
Guide To The Stand-To-Sit Test
看似简单的从坐到站的练习被称为闭链练习，因为我们的脚几乎固定在地板上，当然其中一只脚几乎从不改变位置。它的执行会激活大量的肌肉、肌腱、韧带和神经。因此，它成为针对您的生物年龄的活动测试，以及显示您身体状况的健康测试，以及准确告诉您需要做什么的诊断工具。
为了了解如何使用它，以便更好地了解它告诉我们的健康和健身信息，我们必须解构其运动的物理性。
我们用来从坐到站的主要肌肉是：腿筋、臀肌、竖脊肌和支撑背部的椎...
Breathing Techniques For Anxiety
We are obviously born to breathe air. Just because we do something from birth doesn’t necessarily mean we are good at it. This is why we have science-backed articles on the correct way to breathe when you exerc...
6 Serious Side Effects of Taking Weight Loss Supplements
More than two thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, according to the National Institutes of Health — and supplement companies are cashing in. About 15 percent of adults in the U.S. have used a dietary we...