Strength Training at Home

Endurance and muscular strength are essential fitness components for optimal well-being and quality of life. However, not everyone can afford a gym membership or health club – which can run up to $100 per month. Once you add in other fees and consider travel...

How Strong Should You Be?

How much strength do you really have to gain before you consider yourself strong? There will come many points in your training when you will look a the loaded bar and say, that looks real heavy. You could be looking at it from two perspectives – from the...

Exercises to Include in Your Lower Body Routine

Working out the lower body seems to be a low-priority item for many lifters. While it is common in online forums to make fun of people who do not train legs, the reality is that a large majority of lifters still neglect to give their lower body as much work as they...

A Balanced Upper Body Routine

Working your entire upper body is very important to peak health and performance. However, too many people focus on working out the arms and chest while neglecting the progress of their back muscles, causing muscular imbalances that could lead to injury in the future....

Assistance Exercises to Improve Your Bench Press

The bench press is the de facto standard of upper-body strength for many gym-goers all over the world. If you have been training consistently for a long time and have a good physique, many others will not ask you how much you can squat or dead lift – rather,...