Joe DeFranco Reveals the Right Way to Conquer Closed-Grip Bench Press – Muscle & Fitness

Popular strength and conditioning coach Joe DeFranco, the owner of DeFranco’s gyma private facility located in East Rutherford, NJ, has trained martial artists, NFL players and WWE wrestlers and motivated them to push their limits. But in a recent Instagram post, the fitness pro explained why a lack of form could derail any athlete’s progress. […]

Results from Jeff Nippard’s 100 Day Low Volume Training Experiment – Muscle and Fitness

The act of pushing yourself to your limits to see results with your physique is an oft-repeated mantra that makes a lot of sense. After all, building muscle requires training fibers until they tear and strengthen again, but sometimes a phase of making workouts shorter, or even cutting them in half, can yield surprising results, […]

Dana Linn Bailey Reveals Back Workout Hack for a Shapely Upper Back – Muscle & Fitness

Dana Linn Bailey, the first-ever Olympia Women’s Physique champion, still looks ready for the podium thanks to her love of finding new ways to keep her body toned. And, in a recent Instagram postBailey, who won her Olympia Prize in 2013, shows that she is still using new training techniques to build her body better. […]

Why WWE’s Ilja Dragunov prefers Zerchers to zap his body – Muscle & Fitness

WWE’s Ilja Dragunov is a wrestler who harkens back to an era of strong-style technical wrestling, ensuring that every move performed in the ring has a purpose. And as his sweat-filled gym sessions show, this Moscow-born mat star is just as aggressive with his workouts. Dragunov is a detail man when it comes to his […]

Martin Fitzwater’s Olympia-level shoulder workout for boulder-sized delts – Muscle & Fitness

Martin Fitzwater used his highly developed shoulders to carry back-to-back first-place trophies at the 2024 and last weekend’s 2025 EVLS Prague Pro events, but the work to build those rocky shoulders started many moons ago and required an epic workout that “The Martian” recently shared on Instagram. The past twelve months have been a storybook […]

EVLS Prague Pro 2025 Results: Martin Fitzwater dominates in upset win over Samson Dauda – Muscle and Fitness

If you thought the bodybuilding world would catch its breath after the 2025 Olympia, you better think again, because the EVLS Prague Pro has had a huge impact on his journey to becoming the best bodybuilder in the industry. From emerging contenders to emotional paths to redemption, here are five things we learned this weekend. […]