Strength Training
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3 Pelvic-Floor Exercises
Three moves to improve pelvic-floor strength and prevent dysfunction — for men and women.
Training With a Twist: The Transverse-Plane Workout
Banish boredom, boost your athleticism, and prevent joint injury with these full-body transverse-plane exercises.
How to Use a Rowing Machine
Fine-tune your form and sequencing to maximize the rewards of indoor rowing. Explore two creative workouts to enhance power and strength.
What’s the Best Way to Build Muscle Mass After an Illness or Injury?
Here’s how to rebuild lost muscle mass after being sick or experiencing an injury.
How to Do the Overhead Squat
Finesse your form to improve full-body mobility and strengthen your Olympic snatch.
How to Do the Kettlebell Snatch
Take control of this dynamic move to burn fat and build strength.
How to Power Clean
Olympic lifts are designed to give athletes more full-body strength and power. Two renowned Olympic coaches show us proper power-clean form.
How to Do the Hollow-Body Hold
Strengthen your core with this gymnastics and Pilates staple, and discover how to progress the move for an added challenge.
6 Unconventional Barbell Exercises
Six unconventional barbell moves to get you strong from head to toe.
How to Do the Calf Raise
Tweak your technique to build lower-body strength and resilience, and see three variations of the move.
3 Ways to Strengthen Your Core
Not getting the results you want from traditional ab exercises? Try this multilayered approach to building a strong, functional core.
The Easy-Strength Workout
You don’t have to sweat and strain to get strong. This two-month, field-tested strength-training program will show you another way.
How to Do Upward-Facing Dog
Improve your form to get all the benefits of this deep, front-body stretch.
How to Do the Lunge
Fine-tune your form to strengthen your glutes, quads — and, yes, even your knees. Learn how to add variety to the move with five variations.
The Workout: 8 Weeks to Strong
Follow this two-month program to strengthen and sculpt your entire body.
A Dumbbell Complex Workout
Use one of the most basic weights — dumbbells! — to get an intense cardio and strength-building workout.
How to Do the Bench Press
Fine-tune your form — and breathing rhythm — to make the most of this strength-building staple.
The Dumbbell-Complex Workout
This circuit of back-to-back dumbbell exercises builds full-body strength, amps up endurance, and burns fat.
A 5-Minute Workout to Protect Your Shoulders
Restore mobility — and protect yourself from injury — with this short upper-body warm-up.
How to Do the Glute Bridge
Finesse your form of the bridge to build a strong derrière that powers you in athletics — and in life. Try four challenging bridge variations that will target and challenge your glutes.
How to Get Your First Pull-Up
This 30-day program can help you lift your chin over the bar once and for all.