Tip: Bentover Row With Band
Do this warm-up before any upper body workout to prime your body for heavy lifting.
June 29
Tip: An Unconventional Way to Improve Your Pull-Ups
Do more pull-ups and do them with more weight strapped to your body. How? Use this cool training method.
June 27
Tip: What All Strong Athletes Have in Common
Strengthen this muscle group and you'll get stronger at damn near everything.
June 24
Tip: The Misunderstood Pulldown
Are behind-the-neck pulldowns really the devil? Well, not quite. Here's why.
June 19
Tip: Heavy Renegade Row
Test your strength and stability by trying these with bodyweight. Example: A 200 pound man should be able to use a 100 pound dumbbell in each hand.
June 17
Tip: Inverted Row Burnout Set
Add some weight and rest-pause style reps to your inverted rows to make this so-called sissy exercise into a real back builder.
June 14
Tip: A Back Builder You've Never Tried
This is brutal, and you actually do it as part of your warm-up. Take a look.
June 10
Tip: Seated Cable Rows with Iso Holds
Do an isometric hold every third rep or so to produce greater muscle activation and stimulate size gains.
June 3
Tip: Cable/TRX Reverse Flye
Add a suspension trainer attachment to the cable machine to hit your back and rear delts in a new way.
June 2
Tip: Standing Rotational Rope Row, Unilateral
Pittsburg Pirates outfielder, Austin Meadows, demonstrates this variation of the rope row. Note the hand rotation for more activation of the lats and upper back.
June 1
Tip: The Low-Pulley Face Pull
Go light, be meticulous with your form, and focus on contracting all the small muscles working in your upper back and shoulders.
Tip: Two Drills to Fire Up Your Backside
Get your glutes, hamstrings, and upper back ready for heavy training with these simple movements.
May 31
Tip: The High-Pulley Face Pull
Bring up your rear delts, rhomboids, and external rotators with this movement.
May 29
Tip: The Gironda 45-Degree Row
Without moving your hips back and forth, get a good stretch in the lats, then pull the bar into the lower abs.
May 28
Tip: The Dante Row
Combine lat isolation, a long range of motion, and a good stretch and you get this great row variation.
May 18
Tip: Better Barbell Rowing
What to do before you ever lift the bar, plus some great advice about form.
May 2
Tip: Do 10-Plus Reps for Upper Back
Here's why you should train upper back often and with higher reps, along with the best exercise choices.
Master the Ridiculously Strict Pull-Up
Most people who say they can do 10 or more pull-ups are only doing a few REAL pull-ups. The rest are cheated. Get strict to get strong. Here's how.
April 30
Tip: Cable Row with Pre-Set Iso-Hold
Build that back. Hold the first rep for 10 seconds, then knock out 8-10 reps.
April 27
Tip: Fix Your Posture, Relieve Your Back Pain
Strengthen your core, improve your posture, and make your back feel awesome with one exercise. Check it out here.