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It can be a major hassle to get in your car, hop on your bike, or catch the bus or train across town just to get to the gym. All that time that you waste commuting could be spent working out. Instead of raising your heart rate, you're stuck in traffic getting a leg cramp because you've been sitting a...

When you're training out, you're working your muscles hard--that's one of the reasons why it's called "working out." However, by virtue of this intense training, you're stressing your body, and with stress comes pain. Everyone who's a serious gym rat is familiar with the burning you feel in your legs...

Lifting straps are an integral piece of equipment for any seasoned gym rat. When advancing in your routine, you may notice that your grip strength is holding you back. This problem commonly arises with exercises that involve gripping and holding large amounts of weight, like deadlifts and shoulder sh...

One of the main points of working out is to work up a sweat. You want to push your body to the limit to not only strengthen your muscles and your mind but also to find out how far you can go. A common problem that many people experience is that they find their environment uncomfortable. If you're wor...

When you're training, injuries are bound to happen. Whether you're training for a triathlon, practicing for an MMA tournament, or just trying to lose weight at the gym, we all reach our limits sooner or later. The problem is what we decide to do once we've hit those limits. Injuries happen to the bes...

People have been seeking to strengthen their bodies since the beginning of time. From the Olympics in Ancient Rome all the way to modern bodybuilding competitions, people have striven to become stronger. Sometimes we want to be able to achieve a certain physique. Sometimes we want to be able to do we...

=Powerlifters always seek to push themselves to the limits. Their seemingly only quest in life is to push themselves to the heights of human capability, lifting ever higher amounts of weight. For them, it's not just about building bigger muscles or impressing people. It's about seeing how far they ca...

We live in the golden age of information. There is a seemingly endless amount out there, much of it untrue or contradictory. When it comes to your health, it's obvious that you would only want the best, most solid facts available. Nutrition is one of those funny areas where everyone seems to have an ...

When it comes to fitness technology, there are all sorts of nifty new gadgets out there that claim to help you out. Whether it's a heart-rate tracker or a smartwatch or a new phone app, the innovations keep flooding in. However, all these new inventions won't do you much good if you don't actually us...

Exercise bikes are one of the most heavily utilized machines in the gym. This is because it is a great tool to help improve your fitness goals and it is easy to use. There are many different benefits for your body when using one of these machines. An advantage of using these is improving your level o...

It's a sweltering summer day. You're hot and uncomfortable, and you just want some relief. You don't have central air, and the thought of wrestling your gigantic, heavy, and clunky window-mounted air conditioning unit out of storage is too much to bear. You know it's going to take you a lot of huffin...

Stepping out of a nice, hot shower at the gym, you're squeaky clean after sweating hard and training harder. You've scrubbed yourself down and now the only thing left is to dry yourself off. Feeling refreshed, you reach for your towel and begin to dry off, only to discover that the towel is coarse an...