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The Ultimate Guide To Bodybuilding Divisions

The Ultimate Guide To Bodybuilding Divisions

Working out to get big, gain more muscle and look fit, is one thing, but if you’re ready to take your prep to the next level, you’ll need to figure out what bodybuilding division you need to train for that completes your physique to have the best chance of competing.

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Free Weights Vs. Machines: Which One Is Better

Free Weights Vs. Machines: Which One Is Better

One of the controversies you often hear is about prescribing the use of free weights vs machines in resistance training programs. Your muscles were designed to overcome the pull of gravity, rather than work against machine resistance. Functional movement incorporates lifting, squatting, and us...

5 Ways To Improve Recovery And Soreness From Working Out

5 Ways To Improve Recovery And Soreness From Working Out

Working out is great unless you don’t recover so well that you avoid the gym the next day. You know what we’re talking about - the soreness, the achey-ness, the I-don’t-want-to-move-ness type feeling. The bad news is this - if you’re not recovering your body isn’t repairing itself f...

5 Benefits Of The CrossFit Snatch

5 Benefits Of The CrossFit Snatch

Performing the CrossFit snatch can be one of the quickest ways to boost (or bust) your confidence in the box. It’s an explosive, powerful, and impressive movement that requires full body strength, coordination, and mobility. Whether you’re brand new or you’re a seasoned vet t...

Social Comparison Theory An Athletes - A Necessary Evil?

Social Comparison Theory An Athletes - A Necessary Evil?

The pressure is always on when you’re an athlete. Whether its from yourself, your coach, your parent in the stands or social media. It can come from many sources, but when we apply that pressure to ourselves, then compare ourselves to others as an athlete, we can fall prey to things...

6 Benefits Of Running Stairs

6 Benefits Of Running Stairs

My university had this giant staircase outside of the gym. I’d see people out there just about every day, and at every time of day, running up and running back down. While I often looked at them in awe and kept on walking by, one day it I ended up searching online what are the benef...

What To Eat Before A CrossFit Competition - The Swole Kitchen

What To Eat Before A CrossFit Competition

You’re already going to be nervous enough for competition day and the last thing you need to do is forget to eat, let alone try to eat, and not know what to eat before a CrossFit Competition. You need fuel and glycogen for your muscles and for your body to pro...