There's no need to stress about getting totally ripped up for your time on the sand—but if you want to get into the best shape possible to be able to enjoy your outdoor adventures to the fullest, you can put a few short weeks of work in at the gym and see results. With just a little pain now, you'll
What's the best big lift you can do for the upper body? If your gut reaction says either bench press or military press, perhaps you need to start focusing a bit more on pulling than pushing. Truth is, the classic barbell row will give any upper-body exercise a run for its money in terms of developing pure strength and piles of muscle. In
High-intensity interval training is efficient—workouts are under half an hour and often just a few minutes. And they’re effective. HIIT improves athletic endurance, strengthens the heart and cuts body fat. Fortunately, the high intensity doesn’t have to mean high impact. Lower-impact exercises are great for people with knee or ankle injuries, or anyone heading back into the gym after a
One major benefit of a push/pull plan is the increased frequency with which you hit your muscles. A typical split will see you in the gym six times a week: push/pull/legs comprises Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, which is then repeated – leaving Sunday as your day of rest. The push/pull plan also allows you to introduce microcycles in your training.
A true landmine apparatus looks like a baseball diamond with a hinged tube on top into which you simply insert the end of an Olympic bar and get to work. But if your gym doesn’t have one, no worries: Use a 45-pound plate and place the end of the barbell in the centre, instant landmine. The landmine is perfect for developing
If you’ve never used a medicine ball for your workout then you’re missing out. Medicine balls are particularly useful for explosive movements, and there’s no better exercise for relieving stress in the gym than the medicine ball slam, where you hurl one into the ground as hard as possible. You can’t do that with a dumbbell, unless your gym is really
When you join a gym near you and begin to lift weights, virtually any training program will work. However, these newbie gains are short-lived and you'll quickly hit a plateau. But before you give up, give the push/pull split a try. It’s the best way to build more muscle and burn more fat One major benefit of a push/pull plan is
It's a difficult muscle to build. So much so, that men are now starting to go under the knife to have chest implants. There's a whole treasure trove full of workouts and exercises to be uncovered to blast the chest that can sculpt your pecs and push your upper body training days to the next level. But first, try our
We're going to start with some heavy, compound lifts to build overall strength and mass, and then get our pump on with lighter isolation lifts in this workout. This lets us build massive boulders and chisel them into a pure sculpture of strength and size. Think about how many things you carry from point A to point B every day.
If you want to bench big, you need to bench more—and better. Commit to this bench specialisation programme made for bodybuilders, and watch that old 1RM go for good! I always start with the same question: "Do you even bench?" The training programmes generally resemble a random grab bag of every press or triceps extension type movement imaginable, with very
