This is a variation of the traditional side bend that can really be difficult.

I love this exercise. It’s a great rotational ab exercise that powerlifters and athletes alike should use.

Hook a band underneath the power rack.

Grab the band with one hand and keep your arm straight the whole time.

Loop a mini band to a power rack or other stable piece of equipment.

I wrote this article in order to educate women and some men who believe that doing cardio and abs will help them shed pounds on their midsection.

Although they aren’t brand new, there’s a reason Blast Straps have continued to challenge athletes into 2010.

Every day at the gym, I watch people spend anywhere from 10–30 minutes on their upper abs, lower abs, and sides.

The other day in the gym, the topic of ab training for strength came up. I figured there was nobody better to ask than 1100 pound squatter Matt Wenning.

The other day I had to suffer the great indignity of paying for a day pass at a commercial gym. Lifting in a commercial place isn’t all that bad. It can actually be good from time to time to expose you to new equipment or just get a change of scenery.

Hockey is a sport of intensity, physical contact, stamina, strength, and speed.

The deadlift can be scary. It comes last in a meet and is the most stressful event on the various components that make the body a lifting machine. And well, it even has a scary name. On top of all of that, there are now a hundred and one ways to raise your one rep max on the deadlift. Rack pulls, stiff legs, speed pulls; sumo, conventional, modified; and high hips, low hips, leg drive, hip drive. It can get very, very confusing.