What Is Submaximal Lifting? You probably hear it a lot from us, and maybe you still don't really know what it is. Which is why we want to break it down for everyone. We NEED to explain what submaximal lifting to us. Knowledge is power(unless you are Goku, then power is power).What is...

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Cardio For Lifters: HIIT We want to talk about cardio. We get a lot of questions about cardio, what to do and what kind. So we want to give a basic overview of the two and get a basic understanding on how to perform a HIIT workout. Whats the difference between low intensity cardio and high...

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The Missing Back Movement; What Everyone Forgets About In the bodybuilding community, oftentimes movements are identified with muscles. Which is useful, but it's better to understand what the function of a muscle is versus just knowing the movement associated with it. An example being, we...

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Why Am I Stronger When I Am Fat? This is general information! Not everyone is going to be stronger when they are fatter and/or fluffier but for a lot of people this tends to be the case. When you’re bulking (usually when we are fatter), it’s a great time to focus on building that strength....

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Need Delts? Try This Exercise There are those of us that can never grow our delts no matter what we do. So we have to think and train differently, which is where we bring in the classic, lateral raises. We aren't talking your everyday run of the mill lat raise but our variation on that which...

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Get A Bigger Back: Vertical Pulls1. Internally Rotated -> Externally Rotated 2. Depress And Pull With Lats 3. Use Full RoM 4. Bring You Or The Bar To Your Chest 5. Elbows Go Out To In Its all about the BACK. The back is an area with both big and small muscles so it is sometimes hard to...

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Best Assistance Exercise You’re Not Doing What we find is that people usually tend to ignore is accessory work. Either they do none or they go over the top and do too much. For powerlifting purposes, long term, accessories help you in the 2,3,5 year term versus the 4 week cycle hoping to...

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We have covered it before but we wanted to cover it again as it is always good to have these in mind while getting ready for or starting your summer shred! These are things you want to have in addition to programming and diet not standalone. Tip number 1: Stop Drinking Your Calories! Stop...

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Single Arm Lat Pulldown This is one of the most underrated movements that targets our lats. It is something we have been doing more and more. This movement is perfect for those that don’t get a lot of stimulation from traditional compound back movements, not everyone will get great back...

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What You Need To Know Today we want to focus on the Deadlift and essentially, how do we do it. We have two style of deadlifts, Conventional and Sumo. If deadlifts are new to you or you are just starting out we suggest you start with conventional. Starting with conventional deadlifts will...

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