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Sam Sulek is close to making his professional debut and competing in the Arnold Classic, so the decisions he makes leading up to the biggest night of his bodybuilding career to date are crucial. Fortunately, the 24-year-old remains typically chilly about this monumental moment, but he did share a strategy in one recent YouTube video. […]
Walk into almost any commercial gym during peak hours and you’ll hear it: a sudden throaty growl that cuts through the hum of treadmills and clanking records. Sometimes it is accompanied by a heavy deadlift or chest press. Other times, a pec deck set that barely warrants a raised eyebrow, let alone a primal scream. […]
It’s a challenge to lift heavy weights above your head – and keep them above your head. That’s where lockout problems arise. Elbows drive forward, ribs flare, and eventually the press turns into a standing incline bench. The weight still goes up, but the position is gone, along with your strength, shoulder health, and much […]
Walk into any gym and you’ll eventually see it: a guy curling little pink dumbbells with his arms around each other like he’s smuggling diamonds across a border. His face is red, the veins are erect, and the pain seems out of proportion to the strain. That’s probably occlusion training – also known as blood […]
Rotational exercises are all the rage because they look cool and athletic. But doing them sooner could cover up a little-known weakness that’s holding back your bigger lifts. Anti-rotation strength. Your lack of anti-rotational strength shows up when you leak strength when the weight gets heavy. It is a shift, rotation or tilt of your […]
Shifting the barbell from back to front is a whole different story for your squat setup. When you’re in a hurry, the bar rolls forward, pulling your elbows down or folding your torso into a good morning pose. If you miss one detail, the elevator unravels quickly. Front squat setups will look different due to […]
Depending on who you ask, Reps in Reserve can be a science-based way to train hard without hindering your recovery, or a spreadsheet-driven excuse for not training hard. So, what is it? If you’ve ever completed a set and thought, “I probably had two more reps in the tank,” that’s RIR in a nutshell. The […]
When I first started as a certified trainer, experienced trainers often warned me about using leg extensions. They’d say, “Bad for your knees,” or “It puts your knee joint at risk.” Being inexperienced, I followed their advice and did not dare to question them. Since then, until now, leg extensions have been public enemy No. […]
The barbell overhead press may seem like a grab-and-go exercise. Yet anyone who has done heavy overhead pressing knows that this move punishes sloppy setup more than almost any other lift. If you miss one detail, the bar will slide forward, your lower back will stretch too far, or your shoulders will say “no thank […]
Sebastian Oreb, better known as ‘The Australian Strength Coach’ to his over half a million followers on Instagram, knows the importance of lifting heavy while staying injury-free. And as mentor to Hafþór JúlÃus Björnsson, the results speak for themselves. So when Oreb took to social media to correct the common mistake of arching during squats, […]
