Strength Training
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A Full-Body Workout Combining Free Weights and Machines
This fat-burning strength workout integrates resistance machines into your free-weight routine.
The 7 Best Exercises You’re Not Doing
Mix up your strength routine with these seven underused — but supereffective — moves.
How to Do a Kettlebell Carry
Build your core, upper back, grip, balance, and endurance with this simple full-body move. Explore five variations to add variety to your workout routine.
How to Do the Olympic Lifts
A coach shares tips on improving the two Olympic lifts: the snatch and the clean and jerk.
How to Do the Bent-Over Row
Follow these cues to reap the benefits of this power-building move and discover intermediate and advanced variations, including the Pendlay row, to elevate your strength-building routine.
Build Your Backside
This two-month program pumps up your posterior chain, improving posture and boosting athletic performance.
How to Stay Fit At Any Age
This functional, all-ages workout builds strength, balance, agility, and confidence.
How to Do a Kettlebell Clean
Fix your form to make the most of this dynamic move. Plus, see three variations to add variety to your workout routine.
How to Do the Overhead Press
Reap the rewards of this upper-body move with simple form fixes and explore three variations to add versatility to your press.
How to Do the Pushup
Fine-tune your form in this fundamental upper-body move, and explore four variations to adjust the intensity according to your preferences.
How to Do the Deadlift
Build full-body strength — and a powerful posterior — with this move.
The Spartan-Strong Workout
Inspired by the popular obstacle-course race, this circuit boosts mental and physical strength, improves conditioning and agility, and burns fat.
How to Do the Squat
Build essential strength with this powerhouse move.
What’s the Best Warm-Up for Strength Training?
Learn the moves for the Yoga Push-Up Complex, a great way to warm up before a strength session.
The Push-Pull Workout
Even out your pushes and pulls with this fat-burning, muscle-building, full-body workout.
What Should I Do With My Legs During Pull-Ups?
There are several ways to use your legs to make pull-ups easier or harder.
Is it OK to Lock My Elbows During Upper-Body Exercises?
It’s okay to straighten your arms, but don’t lock them. Here’s why.
A 2-for-1 Kettlebell Workout for Full-Body Fitness
This full-body routine can flip from fat-burning to strength-building — simply by switching up your tempo and rep range.
How to Create a Strong Core
Strengthening your muscles is only one part of the equation. Learn how posture, breathing, and coordination can make your center more stable and solid.
Fitness Fix: Lunge With Confidence
Clean up your lunge technique with these four strategies.
The PNF Workout
Get stronger and smarter with this functional routine that uses proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation to improve balance, coordination, power, and mental acuity.