If you tend to breeze through the "easy" part of an exercise—like lowering into a squat or letting your dumbbells drop after a curl—you might be missing a major opportunity to build strength. That ...

NO ONE BEGINS a workout hoping to lift less than they did in the last one. The goal is always to raise the bar (literally and figuratively), move more iron, crush more advanced exercise variations, do ...

There comes a time when, in order to keep testing your fitness and get stronger, you're required to make your workouts progressively harder. In the gym, this might seem easy to do — equipment is ...

You’ve probably heard of time under tension (TUT), a concept often promoted by bodybuilders and influencers as one of the main drivers of hypertrophy. The idea is simple: the more time your muscles ...

When I really don’t want to exercise, I’ll rush through a workout just to mark it off my to-do list. But the faster I try to get it done, the sloppier I get. Instead of moving with intention, I’m ...

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