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. […]
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, 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. […]
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 […]
Good luck trying to slow down Priscilla Block, especially during her running days. Keeping up with the “He’s My Man” singer’s promise to hit the streets a few miles at 7 a.m. may be just as difficult as maintaining her busy schedule following the release of her new album, Things you didn’t see. In addition […]
With six consecutive Classic Physique Olympia titles claimed before ending his career in triumph last year, Chris Bumstead is as motivated in the gym in 2025 as ever, but with the pressure of competitive bodybuilding no longer an issue, Cbum is instead focusing on stability, mobility and keeping as much muscle as possible. And in […]
The Bulgarian split squat is an exercise that many lifters love to hate. The love comes from the single-sided strength and the quad and glute goodness. The hate part is simple: they suck and expose every lower body weakness you have. If you’re like me, you do them anyway because the love trumps the hate […]