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How to Build Stronger Muscles in Three Days If you're looking to get stronger in three days, it's actually possible. New research suggests this method can work. If you’re looking to get huge in a hurry, well, we’re still working on that one. But if you want stronger leg muscles fast, there’s a...

Form Fixes Everything, How to Correctly Master the Tricep Pulldown Form Fixes Everything, How to Correctly Master the Tricep Pulldown One popular workout you may have heard of is the tricep pulldown. It is conventionally done at a cable system to isolate and work triceps efficiently and...

Whether you’re in peak physical form, aiming to lose weight, or struggle controlling your blood sugar levels, you’ll want to increase insulin sensitivity and reverse insulin resistance. This can help you manage your weight, protect your organs from disease or complications down the line, boost...

No leg curl machine? No problem! You've chosen to show your legs' backs the appreciation they merit on leg day. Unfortunately, everyone else in the gym had the same notion, which is bad news for your hamstrings. You must adhere to a training program, therefore you don't have time or patience to...

There are countless advantages to including bands in your workouts. Here are 3 of my favorites. The major drawback of band exercises is that, after a while, they stop making you stronger. Before there is a chance of breaking, they can only be stretched so far and come in so thick. In a...

SKINNY GUYS HAVE TWO OPTIONS. There are two options for skinny guys: Accept their fate and spend the rest of their lives looking skinny and feeble. Take action to correct the situation. Consume extra calories. Work hard in the gym. Gain weight and turn their body into a suit of armor. The...

If you're a little too fluffy, you're probably overeating carbs and fats instead of emphasizing protein and eating with intention. As your metabolic health deteriorates, the situation worsens. What is the solution? Make protein a top priority. THE PROTEIN TEST The simplest approach to tell...

4 practical tips about triceps training. - First, we want to make sure you train the triceps with full range of motion. The main function of your triceps is elbow extension. So let's train this movement pattern effectively by properly stretching and contracting your triceps on exercises like...

How do Tendons react to different movements and load ? ⁣ Most people like to talk about the impact that resistance has on muscles.. but what if we take a look at the impact it has on the other tissues ? ⁣ ⁣ In this post, we dive into a little bit of material science and learn more about the...

How do bones react to progressive resistance training ? ⁣⁣ How many times do you hear people say you shouldn't train with weights because you might hurt yourself ?⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Well, in reality, resistance training is probably the best thing we can do.. not only for our muscles, tendons and ligaments...

One Shoulder Warm-Up to Rule Them All? Well, this one comes pretty darn close. Piece all your favorite band warm-up exercises together and you've got a time-efficient circuit that'll lubricate and prime your shoulders for any workout. . • A1. Band Dislocates with Wrap-Around x 6-10 reps • A2...

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...

First, we want to make sure you train the triceps with full range of motion. The main function of your triceps is elbow extension. So let's train this movement pattern effectively by properly stretching and contracting your triceps on exercises like straight-bar pushdowns. This also applies to...

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...

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"...

A systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression of the effect of protein supplementation on resistance training-induced gains in muscle mass and strength in healthy adults.Morton RW1, Murphy KT1, McKellar SR1, Schoenfeld BJ2, Henselmans M3, Helms E4, Aragon AA5, Devries MC6, Banfield L7...

QL VARIATIONS . The quadratus lumborum (QL) is a muscle that runs diagonally in your lower back from your vertebrae and last rib to your pelvis. It has various functions such as spinal side bending, pelvic lifting, spinal extension and anterior pelvic tilting. When it comes to low back pain...

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...

Many people want to know the exact amount of rest they need between sets. Unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all for rest periods. Your rest periods need to fit the goals of your workout. Typically, if you’re training for strength or doing compound movements for hypertrophy, you’ll want to...