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How to Make the Ultimate Weekly Workout Schedule
Random workouts here and there may not be too difficult to plan. You show up at the gym, do whatever you feel like, and leave. But forming a consistent habit aimed at achieving specific goals is a different story. Once you get serious about sliding heavier weight plates onto that barbell, you’ll want to develop a weekly workout…
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The ONLY New Year Resolutions That Matter! Strength Weekly 2024
Strength Weekly is the show keeping you up to date on all aspects of the barbell game! This week, we’re covering resolutions — what’s up with those anyway? Here are the only ones you really need! In this episode, we discuss how to stack on track with bodyweight training, how to track your protein (the most important macro?),…
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Does Training for the Pump Build Muscle?
Nothing hits like a good pump. Your shirt drapes over your chest after a few high-rep sets of pec flyes. Your shoulders, engorged with blood, stretch wider than usual and accentuate your V-taper. Leaving the gym with a glute pump at the end of a leg workout? Forget about it. Fans of bodybuilding history will know that seven-time…
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Does Lifting Weights Burn Fat? Here’s What You Need to Know
Losing weight is simple, but not necessarily easy. When you boil it down to the most basic biology, losing (or gaining) body weight is mostly about balancing your calories: Create a deficit by burning more than you eat, and you’ll shed weight. Do the opposite and you’ll gain. Easy enough. It’s that “burn” bit that can be tricky,…
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What Is Barbell Knurling? + Other Barbell Features to Know About
Today is the day. After weeks and months of hard training, your strength training program finally calls for a new 1-rep max in the deadlift. You’ve got the gym to yourself, your favorite song pounding in your ears, and a loaded barbell before you. You set up, wrap your hands around the bar — it’s a bit rusty…
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Do Cold Showers Burn Fat? Everything You Need to Know About Weight Loss and Cold Water Exposure
Your experience with fitness may well take you through some unique lifestyle changes. From dialing in your nutrition to finally locking in that eight-hour sleep window, what you do in your downtime has a huge impact on your strength gains. Any single act won’t seem like a huge needle-mover for your results, but small daily habits really do…
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How to Do the Nordic Curl to Power Up Your Hamstrings Without Weights
The Nordic curl is not for the faint of heart… or hamstrings. Don’t be misled by the fact that this move is “merely” a bodyweight exercise. Once you truly dive into this move, thoughts of adding weight will likely leave your mind. Instead, you’ll have to focus on one rep at a time — that’s how much focus,…
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Former Pro-Wrestler Gabbi Tuft Shares How She Shed 100 Pounds of Muscle Since Transitioning
Gabbi Tuft isn’t done impressing her fans. Way back when (think: 2008 to 2012), former pro-wrestler Tuft spent her days proving her mettle in the ring, wrestling under the renowned moniker “Tyler Recks.” Those in the know might remember the archetypal WWE professional wrestler physique that Recks was known for — but that’s not the physique Tuft is…
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The 10 Best Exercises for Long-Length Partial Reps
The bodybuilding world is abuzz right now. Exercise science researchers and content creators alike may have struck muscle-building gold. Long-length partial reps, or LLPs, are the talk of the town. New studies seem to be coming out left, right, and center saying that long-length partial reps might be the best way to build muscle — better, even, than…
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What Is NEAT and How Does it Impact Your Training and Weight Loss Potential?
As a strength athlete, you might find yourself spending a lot of time thinking about your program: your training volume, what exercises you choose, and how heavy you’re lifting. If you’re committed to muscle gain, overall health, or fat loss, you may also pay a lot of attention to what you’re ingesting — muscles are, after all, made…
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