Articles Posted in the Strength Category
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Calculating your 1 rep max
In weight training or bodybuilding you will often get asked questions like “what do you bench”? or “what can you lift”? These are obviously quite ambiguous questions but what is meant by them usually is “what is your repetition maximum on the bench press or other big lifts”? Now most people who have trained [...]
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Super Exercise – Clean and Jerk
In my opinion I find it annoying when people say “this is the best exercise you can do” or “that’s the number one exercise for building mass”. There is no proof for this and its more just an opinion that you have heard somewhere and are now reproducing as an original thought of your own. [...]
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Are You Fit?
If you speak to average Joe or Jane in the street they will often describe an endurance athlete as ‘fit’ and some muscle bound guy as ‘not fit.’ Personally, I feel this is a great contradiction because the muscle bound freak is fit for what they do, body build or shift loads of weight. The [...]
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Want to Add size? Then get STRONG!
Strength training is often disregarded as a useful means to stimulate hypertrophy. The theory goes that the repetition range required to stimulate strength increase is too low to force the muscle to grow very much. However, this isn’t necessarily true! In fact, the type of muscle growth associated with low repetition strength training is known [...]
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Making Your Training Specific!
The majority of young gym goers do so because they want to look better but there is also a huge amount of trainees that have other goals such as health and well-being, but a big proportion have some kind of performance in mind whether it be on the pitch, court or field. Traditional bodybuilding principles [...]
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Get Strong with Maija Kivela!
My next contest will be next year so now is the time to get stronger! During my contest diets I really hate being weaker, having to lift lighter weights than I normally would. Now I am very excited about building up my strength once again! So time to start my six weeks strength training program [...]
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New exercises – Smith machine ladder
The smith machine ladder basically means using the smith machine for bodyweight exercises like press ups or lateral pull ups. It is a great way to do bodyweight exercises with changing levels of resistance. I use it on the end of a workout to fill the muscles with blood and to really get a strong [...]
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Power Athletes – Multiply Your Power Output!
Rugby fever is rife at the minute with the buzz of international rugby sounding from one side of the globe to the other. As a proud of Welsh man I am sitting smug knowing that Wales are through to the semi finals of the World Cup! However, as much as I would like to go [...]
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Wrist Roller – A Brutally Nasty Tool
If you want a muscle deep burn and a nasty ‘I can barely flex my forearm’ pump then a fat wrist roller may well do the trick for you. Much like the more well-known wrist curls (all kinds) this is a very simple but extremely effective exercise which, it seems, is nasty (in the best [...]
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Sumo vs Conventional Deadlift
Written by natural powerlifter and PhD sponsored athlete Merat Tafreshi The Deadlift, considered the king of the three powerlifts and the best indication of raw strength for any lifter, gym goer or athlete. Even in the world of equipped powerlifting there is only so much the equipment can do, the majority of it, will have [...]
