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How To Do Hip Thrusts on Smith Machine | Form, Benefits & Video Breakdown
*PSA Video breakdown coming this week! Save this post and check back for the video! You want a giant peach but don’t have the means to set up a barbell hip thrust at your gym. You may find it too intimidating to set it up on the turf or at the squat rack. Good news: With…
How To Do Hip Thrusts at Home With Minimal or No Equipment
So, you’ve created a home gym to make your life easier and keep yourself active without leaving the house. You’ve got everything from dumbbells to resistance bands, but you’re still figuring out how to do hip thrusts at home with minimal equipment.Maybe you’re in calisthenics training, and you don’t have any equipment.Don’t you worry! In…
15 Front Deltoid Exercises for Strength and Muscle
If you want to sculpt some 3D boulder shoulders, including front deltoid exercises is crucial. You want to target all three heads of the deltoid, of course: The cool thing is that any vertical push movement pattern will target your front and medial deltoid shoulder muscles. Your rear deltoid muscle can be targeted by focusing…
Chest Supported Dumbbell Row | How To Build Solid Back Gains
The Chest Supported Dumbbell Row is one of my favorite exercises to target the back muscles. I always include this in my and my clients’ programs, whether they train with me in person or online from their home gym and whether they are advanced lifters or beginners. It’s a great beginner exercise that can be…
The 75 Medium Challenge (The Middle Child): Complete Blueprint
You may have heard a lot of talk about the famous 75 Hard Challenge, but have you heard of its younger sibling, the 75 Medium Challenge? This challenge will still push you to become more disciplined and mentally resilient to achieve things you never thought possible, with a little bit of leniency along the way. …
5 Rear Delt Dumbbell Exercises To Sculpt Your Shoulders
There’s a lot of talk about push day and back day, and it’s pretty evident that overhead presses, lateral raises, and frontal raises work your shoulders, but did you know that these specific exercises don’t work the posterior end of the shoulder? Overhead Presses = Target the anterior and medial deltoid Frontal Raises = Isolates…
How To Do The Barbell RDL Safely | Form Breakdown, Variations, & Benefits
Barbell Romanian Deadlift, or Barbell RDL for short, is a must-add exercise to your lower body workout routine. It focuses primarily on the glutes and hamstrings. This hip-dominant exercise is often shunned due to concerns about lower back pain. However, when performed correctly, Barbell RDLs should not cause any discomfort. They can help strengthen your…
Best Workout Shorts for Men 2024 that are Budget Friendly with Style
Staying fit is more than just working out and eating right; it’s about taking advantage of all the tools available. In an age where fitness apps are the norm, having the right workout clothes to help you achieve your fitness goals is also essential. Finding the best workout shorts can make all the difference in…
15 Fitness Trends in 2024: How To Select a Challenge Within Your Reach
What Are The Top Fitness Trends in 2024? The fitness industry is ever-evolving, especially with more evolving technology such as fitness apps, HIIT training boot camp classes, and top content creators sharing their fitness journey. To stay on top of the latest fitness trends in 2024, I have compiled a variety of growing trends in…
3 Affordable Weight Gain Supplements for Skinny Guys to Bulk Up
Gaining weight can sometimes be even more difficult than losing weight. If you’re a skinny guy trying to pack some muscle, you need to eat in a calorie surplus. This means eating more calories than our body needs to maintain weight. Most of us know to eat in a caloric surplus by now, but are we…
75 Hard Book Recommendations That Will Change Your Life
One of the rules in the 75 Hard Challenge is to read ten pages of a self-development book each day during the 75-day challenge. Technically, non-fiction can count in the 75 Soft Challenge, but I recommend reading a self-development book that will better you mentally if you take on a challenge like this. Because whether it’s…
75 Soft Challenge: A More Forgiving Version of 75 Hard
Over the last 12 months, I’ve started hearing more about the 75 Hard Challenge from random fitness influencers, friends, and even the people I’ve dated! But I learned about 75 Soft Challenge (75 Hard’s friendlier and more forgiving relative) through TikTok. Doing the 75 soft challenge would be a great way to ease into 75 Hard because…
How To Stay Fit While on Vacation and Still Enjoy Yourself
You know that feeling when you’re just under 7 days away from leaving for a vacation That’s me right now! (at the time of this post) and I’m so excited I’ve been working hard to crank out more blog posts for my readers and keep up with my own personal health and fitness journey But…
What Activities Burn The Most Calories? 5 Sports That Will Keep You Fit
I tell my clients and in my free programs to create a fitness routine that YOU LOVE And regardless of your fitness goal, it shouldn’t just come down to lifting weights in the gym and calling it a day Picking up an activity can be very therapeutic. Especially if you’re going through a rough time…
How to Gain Muscle for Skinny Guys | What You Need to Know Right Now
Muscle building for skinny guys is a mindset of its own. It truly takes TIME to build rock-hard solid gains, ladies and gents! And it’s easy to feel discouraged when you have been putting in hard work in the gym but see no actual difference in your physical appearance. I consider this a longer journey…
How to Exercise When You Work Full Time (7 Proven Tips)
Hey, 9-5 hustlers! Greg is back again! I think that we can all agree that when it comes to making time for exercise + nutrition after a 40+ hour week (8–10-hour day) … the thought of that just sounds DAUNTING Heck, I’m even writing this post on my 1-hour lunch break! How to exercise when…