Lift Like a Girl: Be More, Not Less
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Would you rather listen to this article? Use the player below, download it, or use iTunes. Whatever the reason you want to learn to lift -- lose weight, build a better-looking body, get strong, forge greater self-confidence, complement your sport, improve your health, to be able to outrun fellow Homo Sapiens should a zombie outbreak occur -- you’re in the right place. Depending on what …
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Would you prefer to listen to this article? Use the player below or download on iTunes. Goblet squats are an excellent exercise. When executed properly, they train the legs, glutes, and abdominals in one efficient squatting movement. Goblet squats are my go-to exercise for teaching the squatting movement to strength training beginners. Once a trainee gets quite strong with goblet squats, …
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Would you prefer to listen to this article? Use the player below, download it, or listen on iTunes. The health and fitness industry has done a fantastic job of making women dislike their bodies, and themselves. Browse the health section at your local bookstore, scroll through social media feeds of fitness professionals, glance at fitness magazines in the checkout aisle of the grocery …
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Two great exercises that will build a strong, resilient back (and posterior shoulders and biceps) are the barbell row and chin-up. The problem, however, is that these two exercises are frequently performed incorrectly, so trainees don’t reap the greatest benefits possible from the movements. How to Perform Barbell Rows Barbell rows are a dying exercise in most gyms. You rarely see anyone …
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Everyone should train the squat movement, in some form. The squat movement is as functional as exercise can get. You squat to sit in a chair or get in, and out of, a vehicle. You squat to the toilet. You squat to do lots of things. Like the book Everybody Poops – well, everybody squats. It’s a basic human movement pattern – one that can be trained, loaded, and progressed in numerous ways. …
Let's be honest: most "tips and principles" articles suck. With that in mind, I did my best to write a "tips and principles" article for you that doesn't suck, and it ended up being long as hell. I've dubbed them Beautiful Badass tips and principles since that's what strength training should be about -- becoming the most badass version of yourself. Strength training is one of the best …
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If your strength training workouts don’t make you feel great or, worse, leave you feeling achy or beat up, then you need to change things. Now. Here's how. Below you’ll find four tips I use with clients (and myself) who complained that lifting weights didn’t “feel good” or left them feeling achy. Whether you’re an older lifter and want to strength train as safely as possible, you have previous …
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