The best upper body strength exercises to add to your routine Are you looking to boost your repertoire beyond the bench press? Here, Telegadas and Santos recommend their favorite upper body exercises along with tips on how to do them correctly. Add them into your routine as needed, making sure to follow the balanced plan
Pull-ups and chin-ups are the ultimate measure of upper body strength because that’s all you need. Both exercises build a strong back, strong arms, and a strong grip. But many lifters leave considerable gains on the pull-up bar. Instead, they rely on their arms instead of increasing the full-body tension needed for better reps. Here’s
While many core exercises resist force, such as planks, the cable push-pull rotation trains your body to generate force off the ground. Your feet hit the floor, your hips initiate the movement, your core transfers the force, and your upper body completes it. That transfer of force is what powers many athletic performances and real-world
Functional core strength is important for everything we do, but its training is often done in the gym. While compound lifts like back squats, deadlifts and bench presses challenge the core, adding direct core work can be beneficial as you age. Your core helps maintain posture, transfer force between your upper and lower body, and
Twenty years ago, it would have been difficult to find kettlebells anywhere, let alone a gym. Dumbbells rule the free weights arena and have been doing so for over a century. Fast forward to today, kettlebells have made a dramatic comeback, largely due to the explosion of functional fitness training and the popularity of CrossFit.
Spend five minutes on FitTalk and you’ll think longevity requires cool dips in the morning, copious amounts of peptides, and enough weekly training to qualify as a Navy SEAL. However, the reality is less dramatic. If you want to live longer, recent research from Harvard offers a surprisingly reassuring message: Your weight lifting routine is
Unless you delve deeply into the world of conditioning, you may not know how to improve your grip strength, or why it’s so important. Sure, if you’re struggling to remember where you parked, carrying your grocery bags around can be a trial, but otherwise, you’re probably not picking things up and thinking ‘Wow, I wish
It’s no secret that the fitness field has experienced a growing interest in how to increase longevity, and grip strength is one of the strongest indicators. Although fairly simple to measure, grip strength is rarely trained and often overlooked. But if you’ve ever had difficulty holding a pair of kettlebells, a pullup bar, or even
Most people think they know how to hip-hinge until something goes wrong. I wouldn’t recommend pulling a rounded back sumo deadlift, as I’ve done it many times. There is a big difference between bowing and bowing. The hip hinge is the foundation of deadlift variations, kettlebell swings, cleans and broad jumps. This is a movement