Category: Weight Lifting

  • Get Your Body Healthy By Lifting Weights

    Get Your Body Healthy By Lifting Weights

    Everyone knows that working out will get your body healthy. Yet, what kind of working out is best; running, yoga, martial arts? Actually the best way to get your body healthy is by lifting weights.

  • Post Workout Routine for Weight Lifters

    Post Workout Routine for Weight Lifters

    People spend hour upon hours in the gym.  Lifting weights, doing supersets, compound sets, plyometrics, Olympic lifts and cross training.  For various different reasons, such as bodybuilding, fitness modeling, athletic performance, rehab or maybe just to be healthy. 

  • Pre Workout Routine to Stay Safe Before Weight Lifting

    Pre Workout Routine to Stay Safe Before Weight Lifting

    A pre workout routine is just as important as the main workout itself. A pre workout method of warming up delivers the “warming” necessary for the muscles to work better during the main course of your workout session.

  • Safety Tips to Avoid Muscle Strain During Weight Lifting

    Safety Tips to Avoid Muscle Strain During Weight Lifting

    A muscle strain is defined as, “a tear in a muscle or its tendon”. (Green) Symptoms include: sharp pain at the time of injury as well as when repeated attempts at movement replicate that pain; swelling and tenderness at and around the site of the injury; pain and immobility of the muscle; and apparent bruising…

  • 3 Ways to Build Muscle and Avoid Injuries

    3 Ways to Build Muscle and Avoid Injuries

    I’ve seen it happen hundreds of times.  Middle age guy joins a gym to get back into shape.  We all know a guy like this.  The one who hasn’t worked out since high school, but “he used to play football” so he knows what he’s doing. 

  • Bust The Dreaded Plateau With Front Squats!

    Bust The Dreaded Plateau With Front Squats!

    Every now and then, the dreaded plateau hits every gym rat trying to grow their legs and trying to increase overall total body strength and stability for better athletic performance.

  • 9 Effective Weight Gain Tips for Body Builders

    9 Effective Weight Gain Tips for Body Builders

    Body building doesn’t just entail losing weight and gaining definition, but it also requires gaining weight for the skinny guys to gain mass and size. Weight gain according to some fitness enthusiasts and trainers is somewhat easier than losing weight.

  • Your Nutrition Plan For Muscle Gain

    Your Nutrition Plan For Muscle Gain

    If you’re someone who’s looking to pack on some lean muscle mass, getting together a nutrition plan for yourself is one of the most important things that you need to be doing at this point.

  • 8 Reasons Why You Should Lift Weights

    8 Reasons Why You Should Lift Weights

    If you’re about to embark on a plan to get in better shape, one thing that you should be doing is starting to lift weights.  If there is one exercise variation that you can use to quickly transform your body, weights would be it.

  • Effect of Hand Grip Strength on Weight Lifting Workouts

    Exercise physiologists use hand grip dynamometers to measure muscular strength. Although it may seem to be an insignificant measure, there is actually a good reason for determining one’s strength in this manner. While performing a weight lifting workout, hand grip strength is vital in executing many exercises. Likewise, weight lifting workouts help increase hand grip…

  • How to do a Dumbbell Chest Press

    There are several exercises that are set in stone in just about everyone’s workout.  Squats, bench press, lat pull down, dumbbell curls just to name a few.  Another, of course, is the dumbbell chest press. The dumbbell chest press is a great exercise that will increase size, strength, power, and endurance of the chest and…

  • 9 Dumbbell Exercises That Are Suitable For Both Men And Women

    If you’re looking to improve the way your body looks and take your fitness to the next level, it’s imperative that you’re taking a look at some of the top dumbbell exercises that you can add into your workout plan that will be effective for both men and women. Dumbbell exercises are nice because you…

  • Adjustable Dumbbells For Your Home Gym

    If you’re looking to build yourself a home gym, one piece of equipment that you’ll definitely want to consider adding to the mix is a set of adjustable dumbbells. Adjustable dumbbells are great for home gyms because they take up hardly any space at all and will be sure to continually keep you challenged as…

  • 12 Ways to Boost Your Bench Press Gains

    If you are stuck in a plateau, the best thing that you can do would be to change your routine, start with a new program or assess yourself for anything that may be lacking in your current workout. Let’s say, you’ve been stuck in the bench press at 150 pounds and can no longer move…

  • 3 Exercises to Forge An Iron Pectoral Muscle

    Having a well-developed chest is both an aesthetic and athletic treasure that one must always recognize. Developing the chests or the pectoral muscle is often harder than most people believe. Chest development demands exercise variety, intensity and the consistency that will help build mass and strength to the pectoral muscle. Below is a step by…

  • 6 Calf Muscle Workouts

    Creating defined calves is something many people – both male and female – aspire to. With the right mix of cardio and resistance training your calf muscle workout can create calves to die for. #1 Cardio for Calves When it comes to creating killer calves, the type of cardio you do is just as important…

  • Weight Training For Women – 5 Quick Tips You Must Know

      If you’re a female who’s getting started on a weight training workout routine, there are a few vital tips that you must make sure that you keep in mind as you progress along your program so that you can see the optimal results that you’re looking for. Far too many women shy away from…

  • 4 Biceps Blaster Exercises

        Ask any guy out there on which muscle group he likes to develop the soonest possible time and most likely, you’ll get shoulders, the chest and of course the bicep. The top arm workouts are here for you to include in your next workout. Whether you go for a split training or a…

  • The Best Chest Workouts for Definition and Mass

    Most gym goers, especially beginners often think about the best chest workouts for definition. There are actually a variety of workouts that you can combine and basic exercises that you can perform in order to build mass and definition to your pectorals. The chest has actually two parts, which are the upper and the lower…

  • Powerlifting Workout Routine for Novice Competitors

    Powerlifting is not bodybuilding. One of the most common misconceptions is that bodybuilding and powerlifting are one in the same. While both may focus on extensive training to reach a specific outcome, it is the method of training and the desired result that sets these two weight lifting methodologies apart. Goals Bodybuilders maximize muscular hypertrophy…