Neck Muscles: Key Players Plus How and Why to Target Them
Can you imagine being ripped and still having a pencil neck? To some extent, this problem solves itself. [...]
Working Out for Weight Loss: How to Lift With Extra Pounds
For the most part, working out is working out. However, there are some things that you should be prepared to experience a little differently than others if you’re looking to slim down as well as bulk up. [...]
Working Out and Heart Health
If you regularly lift you’re probably thinking of your heart. There’s a lot of good information that gets swept under the rug (like the value of knowing your target heart rate) and a lot of myths that get too much attention (like exaggerated heart problems in the lifting community). Fortunately, [...]
What Is VO2 Max, and How Can You Increase it?
VO2 Max can describe the most oxygen that you can get from a breath or it can describe the amount of oxygen required for a given activity [...]
Applying RICE for Muscle Soreness
RICE, or “Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate” is a tried and true method of pain relief as well as a helpful measure to make sure that mild wear-and-tear on your muscles doesn’t become something more serious. [...]
Compression Braces and Tapes and Your Workout
Most compression braces are specifically designed to help support joints with a more limited range of motion like the knee or the elbow. These joints are meant to bend in a particular direction and lifting too much or messing up form on a new lift could damage the ligaments that [...]
Weight Goals and Muscle Goals: What’s Healthy?
Working out is healthy. That’s a good starting point but, after that, things start to get complicated. What are healthy weight goals? Is there such a thing as unhealthy muscle goals? Where do you even start? Weight Metrics The first step to choosing a healthy weight goal is understanding how [...]
A Guide to the Forearm Muscles
You know the forearm, between the wrist and the elbow. And you know the forearm muscles, like the flexor digitorum superficialis. Everyone’s favorite, right? Most bodybuilders have an above-average understanding of anatomy, talking about muscles like the pecs, delts, abs, lats, glutes, quads, biceps and triceps. However, few are able [...]
The Rotator Cuff: What it is and How to Respect it
The Rotator Cuff: What it is and How to Respect it Your joints aren’t just where bones meet. Joints are protected and made useful by muscles that move those bones and contribute in holding them together. The greater range of motion a joint has, the more it relies on muscle [...]