Wearing a Mask During Intense or Heavy Deadlifts: Guidelines
You don’t know what it’s like to wear a mask while working out until you do a 5 x 5 RM deadlift. It’s not pretty, but it's doable. Here are guidelines. I had to try [...]
5 Exercises to Make Your Waist Look Thinner with NO Crunches
Here are five exercises to make your waist look thinner without crunches, other ab exercises, sucking in your gut or standing a certain way. […]
Do Chest Workouts Strain the Heart More than Leg Workouts?
Do you ever wonder if intense chest workouts strain the heart more than heavy deadlifts or squats? When you do chest routines at the gym, you may have wondered if this puts particular strain on [...]
10 Gym Things You’re Doing to Lose Belly Fat that Won’t Work
If you’ve been unable to lose your belly fat, check this list of 10 useless things many people do to shrink their gut but will never work. […]
How to Boost Testosterone without a Doctor’s Prescription
There are seven ways you can boost your testosterone levels on your own without having to see a doctor. Maintaining a healthy testosterone level is crucial for optimal health and performance. Many men believe that [...]
Shoulder Pop When Bring Bar Down in the Bench Press: Causes
Causes and solutions for shoulder popping when you bring the bar down when bench pressing. ****** Bringing the bar down in the bench press can put more stress on the shoulder than the act of [...]
Does Having a Big Stomach Make You Bench Press Better?
Why is it that the strongest bench pressers at the gym have big stomachs? Does a big belly really improve one’s ability to bench press? […]
Can Bench Press Spotter Catch Dropped Barbell from Suicide Grip?
It's crazy that people actually think that a spotter can CATCH a barbell in free-fall after it drops from a suicide grip! Have these ding-dongs ever spotted? I was inspired to write this article after reading [...]
Why Don’t More Women Bench Press? Bench Workout for Women
Women need to bench press, but few at any given gym actually do. If you’re a woman, ask yourself why you don’t bench press. Here’s an excellent workout for women who want to start bench [...]
Which Burns More Fat: Leg or Upper Body Strength Training?
The question of which burns more calories – lower body strength training or upper body strength training – comes up every so often. And the answer is the lower body. […]
Too Weak to Bench Press the 45-Pound Bar? Solutions
If you’re too weak to bench press an unloaded Olympic bar (45 pounds), here is what you should do to develop the strength to push up that bar without any assistance. […]
Should Elderly People Bench Press?
Why do so few elderly people at the gym bench press? More appalling is that so few personal trainers have their elderly clients bench pressing. The bench press is one of the easiest exercises to [...]
Can Bench Pressing Cause AC Joint Separation?
A grade 2 AC joint separation is a kind of injury that some weightlifters think can be caused by the bench press. Do not equate an “injured” AC joint with an actual separation. [...]
Locking Elbows Out During Bench Press: Pros & Cons
What are the advantages, if any, to locking out the elbows for the bench press? Can this even cause an injury to the elbow joint? For best results, you should not completely lock out the [...]
Can You Build Muscle with 20 Repetition Bench Press Workouts?
If you’re struggling with gains it’s time for the 20 reps bench press! Bench pressing for 20 reps will help bust through ruts in progress. The bench press is often used as a staple of [...]
How to Stop Arching Your Back when Bench Pressing
You can learn to stop arching your back while bench pressing. The first thing you can do that will make it easier to stop arching your back while performing the bench press, is to watch [...]
Bench Press vs. Weighted Vest Pushups
Here’s the comparison between the bench press and weighted vest pushups. One of my personal-training clients some years ago asked me which was better: bench press or weighted vest pushups. What are your goals? Do [...]
Why Fat People Can Bench Press So Much Weight
Find out the truth behind why it seems that fat people can bench press more weight than smaller individuals. On a general Q & A site, someone asks, “At my school, the people who bench press [...]
Pec Deck vs. Cable Crossover for Chest Exercise
Here is a fair comparison of pec deck to cable crossover. Is the cable crossover better than the pec deck for building chest muscles? Though the cable crossover and “pec deck” target the chest muscles, [...]
10 Bench Press Mistakes that Women Make
There’s a lot of info out there on the mistakes men make with bench pressing, but what about women? Yes, there is a difference. More and more women are taking up the bench press, and [...]
Bodybuilding Guidelines after Heart Bypass Surgery (CABG)
Straight from a cardiologist, here are the guidelines for bodybuilding after having heart bypass surgery, a.k.a. CABG. CABG stands for coronary arterial bypass grafting, and there are two kinds of patients when it comes to [...]
How to Do a Bench Press with Golfer’s Elbow
If golfer’s elbow interferes with your bench press, here’s a way to help get around this problem. If your golfer’s elbow is bad enough, bench pressing will aggravate it. I’m a former personal trainer who [...]
Why Bench Pressing Sometimes Hurts Your Shoulder
Have you noticed that when you bench press that your shoulder mysteriously begins hurting? Perhaps the bench press is the ONLY exercise that aggravates your shoulder? Shoulder pain or hurt when bench pressing isn’t that [...]
Elbow Pain While Bench Pressing: Causes and Solutions
Elbow pain when you bench press DOES have definite causes and definite solutions. You'll want to get on board quickly before the injury becomes chronic. There are specific causes of elbow pain both while, or [...]