Is metabolic stress a good thing or a bad thing? As a trainer, understanding the mechanisms of muscle growth can help you create balanced training programs for clients. Metabolic stress...

If you’re prioritizing upper ab exercises in your clients’ workouts or your own, you first need to consider whether the washboard ‘ab’ abdominal muscles, known as the rectus abdominis,...

When running clients through a chest and back workout, are you simply going through the motions or are you focused on both efficiency and power? A great trainer is always focused on...

Before taking a client through an upper body workout, you have to make time for the upper body warm up. While there is no such thing as a purely upper or lower body warm up, as the body...

The best holiday gift is the simplest: less stress. Though it’s the most joyful time of the year for many, it’s also the most stressful time of the year. According to a survey by OnePoll...

The benefits of bodyweight training are easy to overlook when resistance training is so effective. The primary outcomes of resistance training are to gain lean body mass, reduce body...

Some things never change and, despite COVID, the classic summer health tips still stand—with a slight twist. With many gyms yet to reopen, and a global pandemic keeping you from your...