Have you heard of the muscle pump? It’s a phenomenon where your muscles look bigger after a workout and you have to train a certain way to achieve it. Here’s the question. Does training in this manner boost muscle hypertrophy more?
How balanced is your strength? It matters! Strength imbalances increase the risk of injury and can negatively affect your posture. Would you like to avoid them? Here are five things to do to prevent muscle imbalances.
How strong is your posterior chain and why does it matter? In this article, you’ll learn what muscles make up the posterior chain, why they must be strong, and the best exercises to help you build strength in these muscles.
How balanced is your strength training? Here are six muscle groups you should train on a regular basis to avoid muscle imbalances. Remember, weakness in one muscle group can cause injury to others by forcing other muscles to take over the weak muscle’s function. So, keep your training balanced with these exercises.
We lose muscle tissue and strength with age, but have you ever wondered why? Here are four science-backed reasons we lose muscle strength with age and what we can do to slow the process of muscle aging.
Ideally, the weight you lose should be body fat and no muscle. That’s the ideal situation that doesn’t typically occur in real life. However, there are things you can do to reduce how much muscle you lose when you shed body fat. Here are three.
Are you using enough weight to challenge your muscles or has your workout become stagnant? Here are five signs it’s time to increase the resistance you’re using. How many of them apply to you?
Strength training gains are reversible, right? If you stop training for a while, you lose all of your gains. Not necessarily! A study suggests that some of the changes are permanent and this makes it easier for you to “regrow” and “re-strengthen” your muscles should you take a long break.
Planks are an isometric exercise that targets the muscles in your core, including the abs muscles. If you want more core stability, planks are a must-do exercise. But what about abdominal hypertrophy? Are planks alone enough to give you six-pack abs?
Detox is something that cells do all the time, even muscle cells. But, how do they do this and what happens if they don’t? As it turns out, exercise may be quite important for helping muscle cells “clean up” and stay healthy. Here’s why.
Have you ever wondered what aspects of a muscle you can and can’t change? Some aspects of muscle architecture are genetically determined, including muscle shape. Yet, you can change the size of your muscles. What are the genetic limitations of changing how a muscle looks?
If you use a bar to do biceps curls, you have more than one option. You can use a straight bar or an EZ curl bar. Is one better for building biceps strength than the other?
