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This simple trick gives you a tiny assist at the bottom of the squat and spares your beat-up knees.

May 4, 2020 in T-Nation

Build a bionic posterior chain with these bodyweight movements.

April 30, 2020 in Muscle & Fitness

Don't neglect your lower body during quarantine.

April 27, 2020 in Muscle & Fitness

Follow these important rules for taking your workout outside.

April 25, 2020 in Muscle & Fitness

Gyms may still be closed due to quarantine orders from COVID-19, but that still leaves training outside at your disposal (just be sure to social distance and cover your mouth and nose).

Naturally, many may see this as a fitting option compared to being cooped up in a poorly equipped home gym (if you have a home gym that is).

Don't retire exercises – modify them instead

April 8, 2020 in T-Nation

There’s no excuse for pushing through pain and force-feeding movement patterns that don’t agree with your body type. Even so, relegating an exercise to pasture should only come through a fair share of trial and error.

For rotator cuff work, the dumbbell is seldom the right tool. Here's what to do instead.

April 1, 2020 in T-Nation

These will wreck your shoulder joints. Here's why, plus a better option.

March 30, 2020 in T-Nation

This exercise is still commonly used, even amongst trainers who should know better. A lifter suspends himself across two benches while his trainer or lifting partner loads several 45-pound plates across his lap.

When you've got some extra time to kill, training every day can feel like a tantalizing option. Should you do it? Sure, but only if you're going to do it right. Here's how.

March 23, 2020 in Bodybuilding.com

The idea of high-frequency training rises in appeal periodically, usually based on circumstances. Maybe you live next to (or work at) a gym and see the possibility of training every day. Or maybe a global pandemic puts the gym entirely off-limits, and you’re finding that you have plenty of time to kill each and every day in your home gym.

If you're towering over the other gym-goers, the rules are different when it comes to heavy pulls. Here's the variation you need to master!

March 11, 2020 in Bodybuilding.com

Movements that spit in the face of logic

March 4, 2020 in T-Nation

Exercises aren’t contraindicated – people are. That means it’s on us to choose the right exercises for the right body type, injury history, and goal. But there ARE a few commonly botched exercises that are inexcusable, and that transcends simply not having the right “build” for it.