Training to get Instagram-worthy glutes is just as much for the guys as it is the girls. Not only will your backside look better, but working on your glutes might help out with knee and back pain, too.
With the same irony that Botox and liposuction clinics have absorbed the words “health” and “wellness,” the evidence-based approach has become a marketing buzzword to try to signal to the public that you are “cutting edge”. Are you all hype or really ahead of the curve?
Want to prevent injury by building a bulletproof back? Have achy elbows and knees? Suffering from a low-grade strain?
Here is a list of my top-5 exercises that I use to train lats, hamstrings, abs, and glutes. These exercises not only target the intended muscles but they also give the spine ways to recover and stay healthy. For some context, I have severe disc degeneration.
If you have a garage gym, you want equipment that is reliable and will outlive you. That’s why elitefts equipment is the gold standard. But you’ll want equipment that’ll give you the bang for your buck. Enter the elitefts Back Raise…
If you are a bench-only lifter, an older beat-up powerlifter, or just really need to get in some lower body training in, these six exercises will cover all three of those bases. These exercises are my workaround to hammer the lower and upper body while keeping a strong bench.
These are the eight items I find most useful after just having barbells, a rack, and good technique.
Still on the road and still answering your questions, this episode focuses on deadlift cues and exercise selection with limited equipment.
These exercises will provide you with a great deal of return on investment. They will not only make you stronger but also healthier and more stable in the squat, bench press, and deadlift.
What is the best way to prepare for your training session? Do you need a foam roller? Muscle activation techniques? A reverse hyper?
Instead of rehabing, think about prehabing. It’s less painful and you certainly won’t regret it, unlike the alternative.
One of the best parts of working for EliteFTS (besides the diet advice from Dave) is helping people create their own home gyms.
The bottom position of a squat or deadlift is where the lumbar spine is most vulnerable.
In this article, I’ll share with you a routine that has helped my clients, both men and women, get better at tire flipping.
So it’s been three meets now and I’m still doing this raw thing.
Thoughts, mostly weird ones, tumble inside my head like sagebrush on the open prairie. So, it should come as no surprise that one day last spring, as I sat and pondered, I conjured up the bright idea to jump out of a 55-gallon barrel.
Since I started the “Sick of Your Gym” concept we have received hundreds of emails and posts in regards to the many challenges you all face when training in commercial, private and school weight rooms.