Strength Training
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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.
How to Do 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.
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.




















