Commonly referred to as a dip belt but also for use for pull-ups and chin-ups, the dip belt can be made of either leather or synthetic material like its cousin, the weightlifting belt.
But other than wrapping around the back, the similarities between a dip belt and weightlifting belt ends there, folks! Continue reading Dip Belt
The only place where pancakes belong is on a plate.
So being the case that you’re a human and not a plate, those pancakes of yours don’t belong where they are.
That’s why you should squat!!!
But there’s one problem, and that problem is that you don’t have a gym membership and access to a squat rack to do barbell back squats.
While that does suck, it doesn’t mean that you can’t squat.
Nope!
Lucky for you that there are many variations of squats, many of which involve zero equipment. One of these is the basic bodyweight squat that only requires your body weight to do it.1The bodyweight squat is also known as an air squat. Use the bodyweight squat form described below and it’s only a matter of time before you’re taking days off from work after calling in thick! Continue reading How To: Bodyweight Squats
You know, one day you’re working out and you feel like you can lift all the weight in the gym and then the next time you work out that same muscle group, you can barely lift a thing. The weight you used the workout before feels heavy as fuck and you can’t do as many reps.
Like, your strength hasn’t budged in the weight room since lord knows how long?
Well, are you working out the same way you did when you first began working out?
HUH, ARE YA?!?!
While it may be good that you’re doing the same exercises and have so far resisted the temptation to switch them up every single time you work out, it’s not so good that virtually everything else in your routine is identical from week to week, month to month, year to year, decade to decade, and millennia to millennia if you happen to be immortal.