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In many experts' opinions, the hip thrusts might be the best exercise to target glutes specifically.. ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ Butt why?⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ When we perform the exercise, there's a great shift of weight from hip muscles to the gluteus maximus, which is one reason why they experience high levels of...

L-Ornithine is an amino acid that we can make on our own, but we can also get it through our diet. Therefore, it’s not an essential amino acid, but you’ll likely want to seek out foods or supplements with ornithine if you want to increase your intake. - 💥 Some research has shown that combining...

Mid back stiffness got you feeling slouched? Add this to your warmup. This banded rotation drill is great for not only assisting more rotational motion, but also making you active the muscles responsible for actively rotating your spine. I don’t like any passive mobility work without an active...

We often hear that exercise can increase energy expenditure. Why is this the case? - 💥 Following a workout, our bodies typically consume extra oxygen (EPOC effect) as we need to spend additional energy to support recovery from training. With this in mind, different types of exercise can have a...

Shoulder Health Sunday? Can this be a thing? . Today we are going to go over one of many exercises that I started performing that took my shoulder pain from “I can’t even look at a barbell without it hurting” back to benching every other day. Reducing pain with a concentration on the eccentric...

Everyone has abdominal muscles under their skin and abdominal fat. Oftentimes the only thing that's separating you from your six-pack is a good fat loss phase. - But abdominal training still can be useful. Next to the core stability benefits you obtain, it's also possible to grow your abdominal...

Most people have to work extremely hard to build a wide, developed, back. Partly because the most “conventional” exercises poorly target the lats in the most efficient way. Therefor you have to do a lot of inefficient work in order to get adequate growth. Let’s break this exercise down into a...

IGF-1 and muscle mass in older adults--PubMedInsulin-Like Growth Factor-1 and Resistance Exercise Study shows Gains in Muscle Mass Arnarson A1, Gudny Geirsdottir O, Ramel A, Jonsson PV, Thorsdottir Abstract BACKGROUND: <abstracttext label="BACKGROUND"...

𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐈𝐂 𝐌𝐎𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘 . . . Mid back all stuck and stiff? Here is 1 awesome way to unlock it and get your thoracic spine moving right! Most people have a lot of restrictions in the mid back because we sit all day and are stagnant. Stiffness here can put extra stress on your low back, shoulders, and...

Muscle of the Week is the Teres Major. We often refer to this muscle as a "helper" for the lats since it essentially performs all of the same actions as the lats. Therefore, any exercise that trains your lats will also train the teres major. Heavy carries with an emphasis on upper back tightness...

SLIDER: LOWER EXTREMITIEs . Sliders are a great addition to a workout routine for lower extremity training. This series primarily focuses on isolating one leg, keeping the core engaged at all times, keeping the knee stable, working the quadriceps and glute muscles while utilizing sliders. . You...

For non-keto-adapted athletes, intra-workout carbohydrate consumption can boost performance, but there’s a few caveats. First, strength athletes are likely going to get much less benefit than endurance athletes; most bodybuilding-style workouts simply aren’t limited by carb availability...

Patellar tendinitis (inflammation) and patellar tendinopathy (disease, abnormal condition) “jumpers knee” is an issue that might make it hard to perform exercises that require more load on the quads from bending at the knee joint. This is the tendon that bring together the thigh muscles over the...

SHOULDER WARM UP VARIATIONS . 📚This series can be used as a warm up before your next upper body exercise which primarily focus on increasing range of motion of the glenohumeral joint. . ✅You will need a resistance band to perform the exercises in this series. . 🔘Overhead Circle - With one arm...

You may be one of those poor bastards that retains a roll of fat around his waist no matter how much you diet and how lean you get. That "tubey" look may reflect insulin resistance. While your instinct might be to adopt a low-carb diet, it doesn't fix the problem. What's more, a chronic low-carb...

QUADRICEPS VARIATIONS . 📚 This series can be great for your arsenal if it’s for your warm up (before your workout, form of dynamic stretching) cool down (post workout) or even an exercise to superset with a compound exercise like a squat or a stiff leg deadlift. Since leg workouts can demand a...

This is just a small gym hack for the landmine row that I found out months after I first started training that completely changed how I performed the exercise. - 1. Use multiple smaller plates instead of the big 45lbs/20kg plate as this will allow you to bring the bar close to you, increasing...

Probably the most practiced technique for burning fat, the research points to the opposite results. According to this analysis of the research, 1)fasted training in general can lead to breakdown of protein tissue before adipose tissue 2) HIIT has been proven superior for fat loss, partly by...

Most lifters would probably agree that music helps motivate them during their workouts. If you’re one that doesn’t listen to music during training, you might want to start. This study found that subjects who listened to their own music performed significantly more repetitions to failure at 75%...

✔️𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇✔️ . . . 💥 Add this in your routine now! Shoulder health is important and this is a very challenging exercise that will help stabilize the shoulder in all directions and will seriously burn! Many people have shoulder issues yet don’t do the necessary shoulder work to keep them...