Fitness
The Best Rhomboid Exercises For Better Posture and Performance
You’re probably neglecting your rhomboids… and it’s costing you in terms of aesthetics, strength and functional ability. These muscles might not be as famous as the lats or traps, but they play a crucial role in keeping your posture upright and your shoulders healthy. Unfortunately, most people don’t train them directly (or at least not effectively). The good news is...
Farmer's Walk: Benefits, Techniques, Variations, and Programming
Farmer strength is a real thing (just like dad strength). And what if there was a way to get “farm strong” without spending 12 hours a day doing manual labor? There is – and it’s called the Farmer’s Walk (or Farmer’s Carry). Read on and learn why this exercise is one of the most effective (and straightforward) ways to build...
The Ultimate Guide to Weight Vest Training
Want to turn up the difficulty in your workouts (and also your results)? Try working out with a weighted vest. West vest training is a great way to challenge your body further, and turn regular bodyweight exercises into extremely effective strength training workouts. Keep reading to learn all you need to know about training with a weight vest, and how...
Free Weights vs Machines: What’s Most Effective?
The debate between free weights vs weight machines has been a hot topic in the fitness community for decades. The decision of free weights or machines can be tricky because both free weights and machines target certain muscle groups and have their own set of benefits and drawbacks. While there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to strength training, both...
10 Best Cardio Exercises for Beginners to Try
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11 Upper Body Cardio Ideas (How to Do Cardio Without Legs)
Cardiovascular exercise is essential whether you want to lose weight, tone up, or just improve your overall health and wellbeing. But most popular forms of cardio require a lot of work from your lower body. This can present issues for people with disabilities, lower body injuries, or if you just want to prioritize your upper body. So is it possible...
7 Benefits of Nasal Breathing During Cardio
You probably don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how you breathe. You know how to breathe, right? You’ve been doing it all your life. But science tells us that being more conscious about how you breathe, specifically making sure you breathe through your nose, rather than your mouth, can have a number of benefits for your overall health...
Is Fasted Cardio Better for Fat Loss?
A lot of theories get thrown around in the fitness community on different ways to optimize training and get better results. One that’s talked about a lot is fasted cardio. Some corners of the internet will tell you that fasted cardio helps you burn fat quicker, and get more benefits from your cardio workouts. Yet others claim this is totally...
11 Bench Press Alternatives To Build a Strong Chest
Bench press is a core part of most strength routines, and one of the most common exercises for building chest muscles (particularly the pectoral muscles, or pecs). But it’s not the only way to build strong, defined pecs. If you can’t do bench press for some reason or just want different exercises instead of (or in addition to) bench press,...
Do You Need a Deload Week?
If you’re feeling stuck at the gym, as if your progress has stalled, or even reversed, know that this is totally normal. When you maintain a strict, consistent, and intense training schedule over a long period of time, your body starts to wear down, even if you take regular rest days and are smart about recovery. Often, when you hit...
Can Working Out Twice a Day Accelerate Your Fitness Gains?
If you’re anything like me, you get impatient looking in the mirror every day and waiting to see your body transformation take place. Reaching your fitness goals takes time. However, it stands to reason that this time will be shorter if you work out harder and more often. That begs the question: can you work out twice a day? And...
All You Need to Know About DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness)
If you work out, you’re probably no stranger to sore muscles. Some go as far as to subscribe to the “no pain, no gain” ethos, and take muscle pain as an indicator of progress. But muscle soreness is uncomfortable to deal with, it can slow your progress (by keeping you from working out as regularly as you’d like), and it...
How to Build and Preserve Muscle After 40
When you’re young, you have everything. You’ve got your whole future ahead of you, few commitments, a boatload of free time, and all the energy in the world. But then you start getting older. You find your body doesn’t move as fast or as smoothly as it once did. Everything responds a little slower, it takes longer to recover. And...
