Squats, leg presses, leg curls, leg extensions…if you are like most people, these are probably the basic exercises that make up your leg workout. While squats are the all around best for building up strong legs, and the other exercises have benefits of their own, I’d like to talk about another excellent leg exercise […]

Pull ups are one of the hardest bodyweight exercises in the gym, and this is one of the reasons that not many people include them in their workout routine. Another reason is that people think lifting weights is better than lifting your bodyweight. This is not always the case! In fact, pull ups are a […]

A lot of people think the key to a bigger chest lies in endless sets of flat bench press. A lot of people are dead wrong, too. You cannot treat your chest (or any muscle, for that matter) as one individual muscle that only requires one specific exercise per workout. Although the […]

This post was inspired by my trip to the gym yesterday when I saw a guy who was guilty of this mistake. I could see him wincing as he was doing lateral dumbbell raises with his arms locked straight out to his sides. It’s a brief tip, but it’s very important and it’s […]

Everyone knows that military presses are one of the best exercises for packing on pounds of shoulder muscle, but many people have never heard of Arnold Presses. They are a great compound shoulder exercise that can help build mass, and the unique movement will hit your muscles in a different way, which can lead […]

I hope you have a cable machine at your gym so you can try adding cable crossovers to your list of chest exercises. Not only do they help to build muscle mass, they also help to define your chest muscles by creating separation between your pectorals. The chiseled look that bodybuilders have in […]