You know the man. Every time you see him in the gym, he’s doing a different workout: new exercises, wild rep schemes, random circuits stitched together. The goal, besides looking cool and attracting attention? He believes that muscles grow through confusion. But here’s the truth: muscles don’t get confused, but they do eventually become understimulated. […]
With consistent training and training, the true enemy of our evolution is not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of progress. In other words, we all fall victim to the dreaded “plateau phase” at some point in our training journey. We’ve all been there. Lifting and working consistently, doing all the right exercises […]
Charged carries are one of the easiest ways to get strong, but that doesn’t make it easy. Pick up something heavy, walk and repeat. Carrying trains your entire body to support, stabilize and move under load. Carrying not only builds strength, but serious toughness. You’ll forge a stronger core, bulletproof your shoulders, and strengthen your […]
When you imagine Every Minute of the Minute Workout (EMOM), you think of lifting weights quickly while your lungs are screaming at you to stop and your feet are sweating. But what happens when you flip the script and go heavy? You’re getting stronger – fast. This 15-minute deadlift EMOM is more than just a […]
Combining the words “power” and “easy” sounds like an oxymoron. Whether it is about demonstrating, showing or practicing strength, the word ‘easy’ usually does not occur to me. Needed, yes; Easy, no. The easy power 40-day program was made by Pavel Tsatsouline and Popular by Dan John, Both suggest that power is easy to reach. […]
Kamer Marlowe proves night after night on stage that it is possible to drop weight and still get strength – both physically and musical. The first Voice This year, the participant is 25 pound lighter, but remains a lot of strength and athletics in the frame, so that he made a power on the wrestling […]
Country Music often finds his lyrical soul in heartache. But for singer Chase McDaniel, It cost a failed powerful PR attempt – and almost lost his life in his catastrophic aftermath – to become the unlikely inspiration for his transformation from Powerlifter to powerful balladeer. The resident of Kentucky does not remember much of that […]
Social media are often saturated with bodybuilders who cancel their top sets with furious intensity, but there is not so much attention to how the best competitors prepare their bodies for lifting us. That is why the recent Instagram post of Jordan Hutchinson explains why he does not immediately go to squats, and how he […]
Every lifter touches that piece where the weights move, but not the muscles. You grind out your sets, eat the right meals and yet the mirror looks the same. The 6-12-25 method is built to get you out of that routine. It is a huge set that combines power, size and endurance in one merciless […]
This fall, fitness is about building full athletics. More lifters prove that you can chase strength in the weight space while you can build up serious endurance on the road, bicycles or rower. The hybrid athlete has arrived and the movement has no signs of delay. Hybrid training combines strength and endurance in one performance […]