No matter your health and/or fitness goals - whether it be improvements in athletic performance, aesthetics, or general health and well being - your efforts in the gym should revolve around getting stronger. Strength is the foundational adaptation that all other physical attributes respond positively to. There are no activities…

Because endurance sports still involve force production, training the ability to produce force is still beneficial for endurance athletes. Improving an athletes maximal strength makes the submaximal force necessary for the endurance event a lower percentage of the athletes capacity, making the athlete more…

An assistance exercise is an exercise that assists in the progression of a primary barbell exercise. Traditionally, progress is measured by the progression of weight on the bar in the squat, press, deadlift, bench press, and maybe the olympic lifts depending on the lifter’s goals. These exercises are selected because…