Most people who perform squats don’t perform them anywhere near correctly, there is an art to performing the squat.  To squat properly first start by standing facing a wall, direct your eyes toward the wall in front, your chin, chest and toes should all touch the wall in front.  Make sure your toes are facing [...]

Bench press grip is crucial to which part of your body you are trying to isolate.  To isolate the chest the best you are best opting for a grip which keeps your forearms at 90 degrees as you come down.  If you place your hands closer together it will take away from working the chest [...]

Simply doing tons of crunches 5 times a week will get your abs in great shape but is very boring and its best to work the abs with a range of different movements to help create a much better shape.  Below are some tips on how to boost your ab workouts.

Super slow movements- performing super [...]

Dead lifts like squats are an exercise that can easily leave you nastily injured if you are not careful.  Below are 5 tips to help you stop getting injured.

Don’t hyperextend the back- at the top of a dead lift don’t lean back at the top this only puts unwanted pressure down the spine.
Don’t roll the [...]

Get some weightlifting shoes- proper weightlifting shoes will give you much better stability thus improving your squat.  Most people when they try proper weightlifting shoes are surprised by the difference in their squat instantly.
Perform front squats- front squats will help improve your back squat by teaching you to perform better squats whilst in an upright [...]

Most people find it hard to isolate the chest when performing flat bench press, they tend to feel it more in the shoulders and triceps.  Try bringing the barbell down to the bottom of your neck just at the start of the chest, this you will find will hit the chest more directly as the [...]

Often at the side of workouts in magazines you see the numbers 3-1-2, this is the rep timing.  Rep timing is the time you spend performing a rep when lifting weights, this is very important as this dictates the time duration of the stress being put on the muscle group being worked out.  For example [...]

At the end of the concentric contraction during weight lifting, e.g at the top of a bicep curl, the muscle is in it’s shortest position.  Many bodybuilders and physiologists recommend you pause here and contract the working muscle as intensely as you possibly can.  Pro bodybuilder Garrett Downing swears by this and owes the success [...]

Grip strength training is an area of weight training that is often overlooked, but certainly shouldn’t be as this is a hugely important part of weight training.   There are four different types of grip strength, pinch grip which is the thumb and fingers squeezing inwards, supporting grip e.g. holding onto something like a hammer, [...]

After you can complete a lot of press ups back to back you may be wondering how to make your press ups harder.  There are lots of different versions of press ups that are much harder than the standard press up such as the clap press up or diamond press up.  The clap press up [...]