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TRX: Strength Hangs in the Balance
It’s just a pair of nylon straps, but the TRX Suspension Trainer offers hundreds of strength-building exercises - and it fits in the corner of a suitcase.
The Best Exercises You’re Not Doing
Tired of doing the same old lifts? Hungry for variety—or just looking for some exciting new results? Try these six innovative, underutilized moves.
A 45-Minute Hyperfit Workout
Tired of your usual fitness grind? Try this energizing Hyperfit workout from record-setting adventure athlete Sean Burch.
How to Integrate Vertical Core Training in Your Workout
Still crunching to strengthen your core? Time to get your core off the floor. Try Vertical Core Training, which recruits more muscles for a more effective workout.
Kettlebells for Everybody
These low-tech wonders offer a super-effective full-body workout. Here are some tips from several experts, including Pavel Tsatsouline and Mike Mahler.
Shifty Shoulders
Poor stability in your shoulder joints can cause pain at the source set you up for trouble throughout the kinetic chain. Here’s how to correct common problems.
Purposefully Primitive
Our ancestors built their amazing functional fitness through intense, daily physical demands and a no-nonsense, super-basic diet. There’s no reason why we can’t do the same.
Core Essentials
These days, nearly everyone at the gym seems to have embarked on a “core-training” regimen of some kind. But what exactly does that mean? (Hint: It’s not about abdominal crunches.)
Making the Rounds: A Guide to Circuit Training
Circuit training can rev up your metabolism and extend your endurance. Find out how.
The Squeeze-It-In Strength Workout
Only have a half-hour to get your resistance workout done? These five moves will do the trick.
How to Do a Pull-Up
The source of many a humiliating grade-school gym memory, the pull-up is actually a great whole-body workout. Here’s how to get your chin over the bar - with confidence.
The Tabata Cardio and Strength Workouts
The Tabata Protocol isn't easy, but it can dramatically increase your aerobic and anaerobic capacity in just minutes a month.
How to Build Your Glutes
Weak glutes can wreak havoc on your back, hips and knees, so building a strong bottom should be a top fitness priority.
Band Practice: Resistance Band Training
It doesn't take pumping iron or fancy weight machines to get a body of steel. Resistance bands let you do a wide array of safe, effective exercises that making building strength and sinew simple.
Lift Like an Olympian
Looking for a time-efficient workout that builds muscle power and functional fitness? Then give Olympic-style weightlifting a try.
Elastic Energy: A Plyometric Workout
With the help of a few plyometric training tools, you can teach your neuromuscular system to unleash impressive speed and strength –the two ingredients behind the explosive power treasured by athletes.
Pavel Tsatsouline’s Guide to Pushups, Sit-Ups, and Squats
Think you know everything about sit-ups, squats and pushups? Well, Russian strength trainer Pavel Tsatsouline thinks you might know just enough to be dangerous.
What Is Eccentric Training?
Go ahead and focus on the negative. With eccentric training, you can achieve some very positive workout results.
How to Properly Spot Someone at the Gym
Learn how working with a spotter can help you ratchet up the intensity of your free-weight routine.