Setting Effective Exercise Goals: How To Achieve Success
Setting and Reaching Goals is Essential to Your Success Setting goals is an essential part of any successful exercise program. Goals provide a direction to your workout routine and help to keep you motivated and focused on the outcomes you wish to achieve. Whether you are trying to lose weight, build more muscle, or get […]
Maximize Your Workouts with Stretching: Why It’s Essential Before, During, and After Exercise
Why Is Stretching So Important? Stretching is an often overlooked, yet crucial component of physical activity and exercise. For one thing, it helps to prepare the body for physical activity by increasing flexibility, range of motion, and blood flow to the muscles. Stretching can also help to reduce the risk of injury and improve recovery […]
How To Stay Motivated To Work Out Every Day
Where Do You Get The Motivation To Exercise On A Daily Basis? Some days, it can be difficult just to get out of bed. I’m not saying this due to depression, though for many this can be the case. Say you had a long day at work the day before or you stayed up a […]
Best Bodyweight Exercises To Get Into Incredible Shape
Can You Reach Your Goals By Just Using Your Bodyweight? There’s nothing like going to the gym to lift weights and build muscle and even lose fat as a result. Progressive resistance is done by constantly trying to get a little more weight up or more reps with the same weight as you’ve used before. […]
The Best Workouts To Thicken Your Forearms
How Important Is It To Train The Forearms? The forearms aren’t some huge muscle group by any means when compared to others. However, there are some factors that make training them directly an essential part of any weight training routine. One major thing about the forearms is that they are likely to be visible more […]
Building Your Calves With High Intensity Training
How Do You Build Big Calves If You Weren’t Born With Them? You’ve certainly seen very developed calves on somebody who’s never touched a weight in their lives. It’s also common to see an avid gym goer with no lower leg development to speak of. The calves are probably the most genetic-dependent muscle group. It […]
Hamstrings Workouts For Complete Leg Development
How Can You Build Hamstrings To Keep Up With Your Quadriceps? The quadriceps muscles on the fronts of the thighs are some of the strongest on the body. In most exercises, they are aided by the hamstrings muscles on the backs of the thighs. Strengthening and building the hamstrings can only help you get better […]
Best Quadriceps Workouts To Build Those Wheels
What Goes Into The Best Quadriceps Workouts? There was a time when a lot of guys who go to the gym would neglect quadriceps workouts and focus almost exclusively on the upper body. When I started lifting, I didn’t see near as many guys training legs as I do now. Even so, there are still […]
The Best Shoulder Workouts For A Wider Upper Body
More upper body width and thickness are what many lifters strive for. The size of the shoulder muscles, also known as the deltoids (or delts for short), is going to play a big part in this. The delts are made up of three heads – front, side, and rear. It takes a variety of exercises […]
My Favorite Triceps Workouts For Optimal Arm Size
Once upon a time, it seemed like triceps workouts took second fiddle to biceps training for bigger arms. This still may be the case for weight training newbies. Once they learn that the triceps make up more of the arm’s overall mass, it’s likely they will start prioritizing training them. Anybody who’s been lifting for […]