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CrossFit: Effective Workouts or Injury Magnet?

How do you know if someone does CrossFit? Wait for it….Because they'll tell you!!! But let's be serious. Crossfit has blown up in the last couple of decades, and with...

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Progressive Overload Examples: How to Continually Boost Your Workout Intensity

We know you're probably thinking, "Great, another article on progressive overload." Truth be told, it is another article on progressive overload, but it's going to actually give you progressive overload...

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7 Types Of Resistance Training: Styles, Equipment & Benefits

There’s more than one way to skin a cat! And there’s more than one way to build muscle! We all know of good ‘ol barbell training, but that’s not the...

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Calisthenics Body vs Gym Body: Does How You Train Matter?

Calisthenics body or a gym body; what do you want? More importantly, what are the differences!? Weightlifting and calisthenics are both excellent forms of training. However, when compared in isolation,...

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Time Under Tension: What You Need to Know

Have you ever seen a guy doing bicep curls at a speed of 100 RPM as if he's racing to do 100 reps as fast as possible? Have you thought...

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The #1 Exercise for Capped & Jacked Shoulders

Are you finding it hard to build your shoulders? Then there’s one muscle you need to hit, the medial delts. Your shoulder has three muscle heads: anterior (front), posterior (rear),...

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Partial Reps For Muscle Growth? Why, Yes, They Do Work

Guys, we may have been getting things wrong this whole time. "Use full range of motion" has been a crucial part of perfecting exercise form forever. The thought process is...

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Cluster Sets: How To Break Through Your Plateaus

Compound sets, super sets, drop sets, pyramid sets, and classic straight sets…just a few different set variations you can use when performing your exercises. They all aim to build bigger,...

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5 Exercises To Get You Looking JACKED In Your 40s

Only a couple of things are guaranteed in life: we are getting older, and rice cakes taste like cardboard. As we get older, it will start to get harder to...

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Build These 4 “Show” Muscles If You Want to Look Jacked

If you aim to achieve that jaw-dropping, head-turning physique, you must build your muscles to be bigger, lose fat to look leaner, and create the illusion that you are jacked...

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10 Most Overrated Exercises That Actually Suck for Muscle Growth

One of the best things about training for muscle growth is that there is no must-do exercise. Don't let anyone tell you differently. You can build your legs without back...

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12 Worst Muscle Building Mistakes You Might Be Making

The internet is a wonderful thing, with all the information we could ever need right at our fingertips. With the overabundance of information available at the simple click of a...