muscle

Did you ever wish you could have a massage therapist on call? Not many things could replace that targeted pressure when your muscles and joints scream for help. Your foam roller in the corner and massage gun in the drawer are nice, but deep down, you know they’re not the same. So, we wanted to...

If you want to build a back so thick it looks like you could wrestle a grizzly bear (or at least haul in every grocery bag in one trip), your pull-day workouts need to go beyond the basics. Sure, lat pulldowns and barbell rows are solid, but repeating the same old pull day exercises will only...

Spring is here, which means one thing: It’s time to shed the winter fluff and get ready for skin season. You’re in the right place if you want a no-excuses, dumbbell only training program that sheds fat, builds muscle, and cranks up your cardio. This four-week spring shred plan is designed to...

You can train insane to shed fat, but if your nutrition isn’t dialed in, your fat loss will stall, your energy will tank, and your results will suck. The goal isn’t just to cut calories but to fuel your workouts, preserve lean muscle, and promote fat loss while keeping energy levels high. But...

Recent studies have raised alarms about GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro, highlighting that a significant portion of the weight lost may come from lean muscle mass. In fact, some studies report that reductions in lean mass range between 40% and 60% as a proportion of total weight...

So, you want to strut around with an extra 30 to 40 pounds of dense, vascular, striated slabs of muscle, aesthetically cloaking your bones? Who doesn’t? If every guy reading this could wake up tomorrow with a chiseled 20-inch arm, he would. Any dude who says otherwise is lying. The question of...

As winter fades, it’s time to unveil the hard work beneath those layers. Warmer weather presents the perfect opportunity to spring clean your workout routine and get leaner and more defined. This 4-Day Core Workout Routine aims to spring clean your winter routine and bring those abs out of...

You’re all pumped up for leg day, and you walk into the gym, and lo and behold, all the squat racks are taken. What are you going to do now? Before hustling over to the dumbbell rack for arm day, there’s the Smith Machine alone in the corner, unloved and gathering dust. Guess what? A Smith...

Gymgoers everywhere chug down their protein shakes in the hope of building back some hard-earned muscle, but a new study may shed light on the benefits of blending collagen and whey protein that can make your shake way better. Proteins are basically amino acids, otherwise known as the building...

Weight-loss medications such as Ozempic have proven to significantly drop fat in patients, but experts have also warned of the accompanying muscle and bone loss that goes with these kinds of treatments. Now, a new drug, bimagrumab, has shown promise when it comes to burning fat while building...

The BMI test has long been seen as a misleading marker of our true health status, but a new study on “Fatty Muscle Fraction” may have superseded BMI when it comes to determining the state of our bodies and our prospects for longevity. The Body Mass Index has always been a crude calculation. It...

Imagine these scenarios: You’re all pumped for leg day and make a beeline to the squat racks, but they are all taken. Or you woke up all geared for deadlifts, but your lower back has different ideas. As a lifter, it’s always handy to have a Plan B when things don’t go as planned. An excellent...

Time. It’s the one thing we all wish we had more of, right? Carving out an hour for the gym is tough between work, family, and life throwing its usual curveballs. But here’s the good news: you don’t always need one-hour workouts to get results. A focused 15-minute workout will help build...

It’s that time of the year. What’s next on the agenda for weight loss? Should you still spend hours on the treadmill, or are there more innovative approaches to conquering your fitness goals? When it comes to weight loss in 2025, the old mantra of “eat less, move more” no longer cuts it...

Dr Michaela Peramaki is an all-rounder: as a doctor of physical therapy, the popular fitness coach is also a former DI track athlete and inspirational natural bodybuilder. But despite her thousands of hours of training, she understandably hates to waste a single rep. So, in an effort to find out...

Three-time Mr Olympia winner Frank Zane built one of the most beloved physique’s in the late 1970s, but in a recent social media post has explained once again why he feels that excessive bulking is ultimately unproductive. Here’s Zane’s advice for replicating his success. “Bulking up means...

The dumbbell bicep curl and loaded preacher curl are great moves for arm day, but classic physique competitor,Wesley Vissers, also likes to take to the cables to crush those biceps, as the defined Dutchman recently explained. “A lot of people ask me, why do you train the biceps this way?”...

Chinedu Obiekea—aka Andrew Jacked—may be one of the biggest bodybuilders in the Open Division, but he’s also one of the most “flex-ible” competitors on the scene as demonstrated in a recent post on the big man’s Instagram account. The Nigerian IFBB Pro loves to limber up during workouts, as...

Many new lifters get and stay motivated when they make fast and significant progress. This is commonly known as “newbie gains,” and it can be the driving force to help new fitness enthusiasts go all in on training—especially when their personal missions are to get jacked. The downside to this...

Ultra-high processed foods may be convenient, but they are crushing your gains and heading you towards osteoarthritis, according to a new study presented by the Radiological Society of North America. Here’s what you need to know. The first-of-its-kind body imaging study, designed to find out...