TO BALANCE OUT your lower body training, it helps to shift to one side. That might sound counterproductive, but it's the truth. Unilateral exercises—moves that require you to work on one side of the ...

Reasons to get flustered at how surprisingly difficult a task turns out to be: Helping your kid with basic algebra; playing that peg board game at Cracker Barrel; and attempting a basic single-leg ...

Training hard is necessary for progress. If you don’t drop the hammer, you’re not going to forge the body you want or become truly fit. Yet it’s equally important to train smart. You also need to ...

Jon-Erik Kawamoto, MSc, CSCS, CEP is a Strength & Conditioning Coach with 15 years of experience. He’s a co-owner of JKConditioning, a health and fitness business in St. John’s, NL, Canada, a retired ...

Stand with feet shoulder-width apart and a dumbbell in each hand (A). With arms hanging in front of your thighs, lean forward from the hips, keeping your head up, shoulders back, and chest out. Bend ...

In the study, 70 young women who had never strength trained before either performed leg presses and stiff-leg deadlifts three times a week for 10 weeks, or performed leg presses and stiff-leg ...