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    Strengthen Your Weak Points with These Game-Changing Tweaks

    Squats, deadlifts, strict press, bench, and pull up. They often are (and should be) staples in your routine around which the rest of your program should circulate. This article isn’t about that. It’s about the parts you don’t notice, the weaker points that you have allowed to atrophy. It’s...
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    Petar Klančir Demonstrates These Killer Moves for Fuller Forearms

    Petar Klančir has been working hard since a snapped bicep tendon in 2022 halted his Olympia dreams, and has even recently competed in HYROX in addition to prepping his up and coming bodybuilding clients. The colossal Croatian certainly has plenty to offer when it comes to answering some of the...
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    Effective Exercises to Naturally Lift Your Breasts

    There may be some particular body parts that you want to focus on during your workouts. Perhaps it is the arms, the core, the glutes, or the legs, but what about the breasts? Is that even an area you can work on in the gym without a visit to the plastic surgeon’s office? Perkier, larger, or...
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    Study Shows ‘Guy Ropes’ Muscles are Essential for Epic Lifts

    Scientists from one of England’s top sporting universities brought Eddie Hall into the lab to try and figure out how one of the world’s strongest men is able to lift such heavy weights and as a result, they made a surprising discovery that may lead to game changing new training plans for...
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    Getting ripped takes effort. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson didn’t get to look the way he does by sitting on the sofa with a packet of Doritos propped up on his pecs. It took years of sweat, pain and sacrifice. Many men (not all of us, though, it should be noted) would love to be as buff as The...
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    Oleh Kryvyi Shares His Top 3 Pulling Exercises For Back Muscles

    Ukrainian bodybuilder Oleh Kryvyi is still riding high after topping the 212 division at the IFBB New York Pro and as he heads to Olympia, he’ll be pulling out all the stops in order to display one of the best backs in the business, and that means utilizing a great pull workout in the process...
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    The 4 Best Warmups For Sprinting You May Not Be Performing

    A proper warmup is an essential part of any exercise program. When it comes to performing warmups for sprinting, it’s non-negotiable—and for good reason. Running full speed on cold muscles, or muscles that aren’t properly warmed up is a recipe for disaster and a fast way to tear a hamstring...
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    How Many Consecutive Pushups Should I Be Able To Do?

    Pushups are one of the simplest forms of exercise, requiring no equipment and very little space to practice in, and yet the numbers are pretty surprising as relates to how many reps the general population can execute in a row. M&F takes a look at some of the figures and typical benchmarks that...
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    A Physical Therapist Shares His Methods for Fixing Tight Hip Flexors

    One of the most analyzed muscles in the fitness universe are those three muscles on your upper thigh, the hip flexors. Are they weak, or are they tight? There is much confusion about them, and a lot of blame gets laid on them regarding performance in and out of the gym. With a Physical...
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    Get the Results You Need When it Comes to Calf Training

    This story has been told a few thousand times, but we’ll go again. In his bodybuilding heyday, Arnold Schwarzenegger was so embarrassed by the size of his calves that he cut off all his training pants at the knees (or maybe he just wore shorts) to shame himself into calf training. History tells...
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    The Never-Ending Quest to Find the Workout Shortcut

    Back when I first started bodybuilding in the early 70s, there was much more mysticism surrounding the exact process that resulted in getting your body to grow big muscles than there is today. Working out in a gym, weightlifting, body consciousness, etc., are cemented into our society on all...
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    Why Wrist Position Matters When it Comes to Building Strength and Muscle

    Tiny tweaks in your wrist position when pumping iron can result in impressive muscular improvements. “It is often overlooked how a simple change in hand placement can make a difference in muscular results,” explains Natalie Wolfe, NASM, CPT. Without having to change an actual exercise, “Simply...
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    Know When to Use These 6 Attachments Can Up Your Lat Pulldown Game

    It could be argued that the three most popular pieces of gym equipment are in no particular order are the flat benches, standing cable machines and the lat pulldown machine. Take a look around your gym, while the adductor machines remains empty. Often you will find lifters milling around these...
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    5 Ways to Improve Your Run Without Actually Going For a Run

    Keira D’Amato will represent Team USA in August when she competes in the 2023 World Championship Marathon in Budapest, but while she’s at the top of her game right now, a series of injuries had forced her to take a hiatus from running altogether. Fortunately, successful surgery and discovering...
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    Step Into a Side Lunge if You’re Looking for Greater Leg Gains

    Here’s something most of us can agree on: Lunges are awful. No matter the type of lunges you are doing side lunge, reverse lunge, forward lunge. Very few people jump for joy when it’s time to do lunges —even less are able to jump afterward because of the exercise’s brutality. Like downing...
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    Carry Your Way to Elite Strength and Conditioning with These 4 Moves

    There are tons of articles on neglected or forgotten muscles and movements, but IMO the king of neglected is the humble, simple, but not easy farmer’s carry. Holding weights in your hands and walking, what muscles do this work, and how does this improve me? Just because this exercise is not...
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    How to Identify and Treat a Winged Scapula

    A strong and healthy back reaches beyond how much weight you can lat pull. It encompasses a solid range of motion, proper posture, identifying weaknesses or imbalances, and correcting them. Considering the back has 40 muscles both large and small starting at the top of the neck and all the way...
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    Get To Know Your Mini Bands Before Your Next Workout

    A mini band is a 9-inch flat looped band that’s great for targeting the smaller muscles of your hips, glutes, thighs, and shoulders. These bands are versatile, portable and can be added to both bodyweight or weighted exercises to add strength to smaller muscles that may be preventing your larger...
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    These 3 Adductor Exercises Will Help Strengthen Your Leg Day Routine

    The quads, hamstrings, and glute muscles should be the focus of your leg training because training them will give you the most bang for your exercise buck. But there is one muscle group that is neglected from the usual leg day workout; the adductor muscles. Adductor exercises are often...
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    4 Ways to Overcome Your Plateau with Workout Variation

    Has your progress stalled while on your quest to put on lean muscle mass? Check out these 4 tips to bust through those plateaus and put on more muscle mass! Head over to the mirror, strip down to your “skivvies,” and take a good, long and critical look at yourself. Meticulously analyze your...
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