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Regardless of your goals on the training floor, strength training plays a huge role. Want to get bigger? You need to lift heavy weights. Looking at getting leaner? Then you better be able to lift [...]

Notice: Before beginning any of the exercises provided on this website, consult with your physician to ensure that you are in proper health. This workout nor any information provided with it are [...]

Are you in need of upper body strength? I always get asked from my female clients – along with some of my male clients who may have spent too much time with a Playstation controller in their hand [...]

Way back in the day I had a crush on this one girl. A buddy of mine told me to tell her “she was a beautiful and unique snowflake.” Give me a bit of a break- I was in fourth grade. Needless to [...]

Anyone looking for serious strength training insight needs to check out Mark Rippetoes Starting Strength.  Rippetoe is a highly educated fellow; he has the unique ability to showcase his [...]

As an undergraduate student and intern, I couldn’t wait to work with people. Very few exercise science students decide to go into the personal training field; the entrepreneurship of the career [...]

When I was in Grad school, I tended to struggle with the concept that I had to back up everything I said with scientific research. It’s not such an issue when discussing the basic premise of [...]

  Hypertrophy is the scientific name for increasing muscle size. Or as the laymen call it, getting yoked. However, there are discrepancies between what actually works and what the research [...]

Hey-when’s the best time to workout?   I’m often asked when the best time to work out is. From a scientific stance, you could make two different arguments. On one side, the case can be [...]

Finding a good strength training program is easy – it’s doing the work that is the actual hard part. But if you’ve reached the decision to get stronger then you’ve made a wise choice: people who [...]