How to Setup Your First Push Pull Legs Split
If you say you’re into fitness, you must’ve heard about push pull legs somewhere somehow. Maybe some meathead at the local gym mentioned it or your gym rat friend won’t…
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Pocket Guide for Back Workouts
Back Workout: Your Exercise Guide Your back muscles are essential for spinal and core stability and are the foundation to a strong lift. The muscles of the back are divided…
What’s Good Posture?
What does good posture look like? "Keep your spine neutral", "tuck your shoulder blades", "avoid butt wink". These advice stem from classic physiotherapy looking for the position in which weight…
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Is Squatting Enough To Train Your Abs?
Many bodybuilders believe that squats and deadlifts are the only exercises you need in order to train your abdominal muscles adequately. However, EMG studies have shown that muscle activity in…
How to Measure Workout Intensity
This study looked into how well lifters can guess how close they are to failure by asking them how many more reps they can do (reps in reserve, RIR) and…
Why You’re Failing With Toning Your Muscles
What is endurance and how can you improve it? Your choice of weight might be the key here! What is Strength and Endurance? Muscular endurance isn’t as clearly defined as…
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SHOULD SPORT ATHLETES LIFT HEAVY WEIGHTS?
Are you an athlete training for an endurance sport? You better be implementing some heavy weight strength training into your workout regimen as well, rather than just focusing on endurance…
Wanna do more pull ups?
Wanna do more pull ups?
Wanna do more pull ups? Contrary to what you might think, soley working on doing many reps of pull-ups is not the optimal way to increase the maximum amount of…
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High Intensity Interval Training Vs. Endurance Training
HIIT is less time consuming & more efficient than endurance training! The concept of HIIT, high intensity interval training, has surged up as the go to training regime for stressed…
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Why You Should Use Supersets
Supersets (doing two exercises directly after each other with no rest between the two exercises) are a good way to save time in the gym. Besides saving you time, this…