One of the major killers of muscle gains is overworking a particular muscle group and not allowing it enough time to effectively recover. The best push-pull-leg and upper/lower body workout splits aim ...

Fitness experts agree that how you organize muscle groups during the week matters just as much as the exercises themselves. A proper workout split helps maximize muscle growth, improve recovery, and ...

If you're spending two or four days in the gym, alternate between upper- and lower-body exercises to allow space for growth and recovery, experts say.

THE BASIC FORMULA for building muscle is simple: Lift something heavy, lower it, repeat. But if you’ve spent extended time around a weight rack, you also know that optimizing your results will require ...

If you are into split routines that break down the body into pushing muscles (chest, shoulders, triceps), pulling muscles (back, biceps, grip), leg muscles (hips, lower back, legs) and the core ...

Your workout routine doesn't need a fancy name like "CrossFit" anymore—now we can just string numbers together and call them workouts? I kid...mostly. Because today I’m considering the 4-2-1 workout ...

When they hear the question, “how much can you push,” most people in the fitness world consider this to mean the bench press or overhead press. But in the tactical fitness world, we will create a ...

Better posture. Weak upper abs often result in poor posture and spinal misalignment, but by targeting these muscles, you can ...

The upper back is an important enough area to train that many gym rats devote two whole days to it each week—this is what “pull day” really means. With strong lats and other upper back muscles, you ...