Weight Training

So a new year is upon us again, and that can only mean one thing: millions of New Year’s resolutions are being made as we speak. Do you know what the most common New Year’s resolutions happen to be? Yup, stuff like losing weight, building muscle, eating healthier, getting in better overall shape and really…

Continue Reading: New Year’s Resolutions: How To FAIL To Reach Your Goals This Year

Let’s say you want to build muscle, or lose fat, or increase strength and performance, or just improve your overall health and fitness level in any way. What do you do next? Well, if you’re smart, you put together a workout routine (and diet plan) that will best allow you to reach that goal. That…

Continue Reading: When Is The Best Time Of Day To Work Out? The Super Simple Answer

And now for the most neglected aspect of weight training… NOT training. It’s a simple concept very few people seem to grasp or actually give a damn about to any degree. Yet, it’s a concept that will ensure you actually reach your goals, progress consistently, and prevent injuries. When I say it like that, you’d…

Continue Reading: How To Deload: Deloading Week & Taking Time Off From Working Out

When discussing weight training schedules and splits, one of the things you’re sure to notice is that 99% of the splits I recommend or prescribe in the workout routines I design are based around doing 3 or 4 total weight training workouts per week. Do you think it’s just a coincidence that the most popular…

Continue Reading: Workout Rest & Recovery: Signs Of Overtraining & How To Avoid It

Hey, here’s a question. Once your overall workout routine is set up and you’ve figured out which exercises you’ll be doing and how many sets and reps you’ll do for each… how exactly do you structure it all? What I mean is, are you going to lift the same weight each set? Increase the weight…

Continue Reading: Pyramid Sets vs Reverse Pyramid Training vs Straight Sets

Let me preface this post by reminding you that I’m not a doctor, nor am I a shoulder specialist. Hell, I won’t even claim to know half as much about shoulder anatomy or the prevention/rehab of common injuries as someone like Eric Cressey does. What I am however is someone just like you, who started…

Continue Reading: 8 Ways To Avoid Common Shoulder Injuries Caused By Weight Lifting

I’ve spent a lot of time over the years looking at the similarities and differences between the most effective workout routines. Why? Well, besides the fact that I just have a nerdy obsession with this sort of thing, it’s because when you start to notice what they all have in common, you start to realize…

Continue Reading: The Big X Factor In Every Successful Workout Routine

If you are doing any form of weight training (or even just exercise in general) with pretty much ANY goal in mind, the most important factor in your workout routine isn’t the exercises you’re doing, or the schedule you’re using, or the intensity, volume or frequency you’ve set up. Nope, those are all important factors…

Continue Reading: How Often Should You Increase The Weight You Lift On Various Exercises?

One of the most overlooked aspects of a workout routine is the warm up. In terms of weight training, there’s primarily 2 different forms of warming up that people tend to neglect or just screw up altogether: While both are definitely important for different reasons, today I want to focus specifically on the second item…

Continue Reading: Warm Up Sets: Warming Up For Weight Training Exercises