Muscle growth is not driven by a single magic formula. According to leading fitness professionals in the United States, true ...

All gym routines have an element of predictability about them, so when a fresh way of lifting weights—like the 6-12-25 ...

Gym lore says that rep range determines whether you'll build strength, muscle, or endurance. However, load, speed, and "time under tension" are actually more important than the number of reps. Your ...

Sometime between reps at the kettlebell clean and press to swing station, sweat started dripping down my face. But I wasn't tired yet. I began to feed off the energy from the other people in the room ...

When it comes to strength training, only completing part of a rep is far from a shortcut. It's actually a technique called "partial reps." Instead of completing a full extension of a movement, you ...

Alan Ritchson is, of course, seriously jacked. To play Jack Reacher in the Reacher series, one non-negotiable expectation is that the American actor lives and breathes the gym. He packed on 13kg of ...

Workouts like this start off easy, then build up repetitions using the ladder or pyramid method. For this warmup, you will do some jogs (not sprints) between push-ups, with an increasing level each ...

Designed exclusively for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, strength-training app Reps & Sets 26 was developed by a long-time Cult of Mac writer.

Here is a tough full-body workout. All you need are a few pieces of equipment, or you can get creative with a sandbag, dumbbell or weight with a handle. If you don’t have sandbags, you can make them ...

Running formed the backbone of the routine. Styles would often start sessions with a 20-30 minute run, followed by 100 ...

Lee Haney’s back was the factor that led to his 8-year-long Mr. Olympia reign. Aspiring bodybuilders or fitness enthusiasts, ...