TrainHeroic’s Top Online Bodybuilding & Physique Programs TOPIC: You’ve had that vague dream in the back of your mind of competing in fitness, figure, physique or bodybuilding, but never a plan to make it on stage. You train hard, eat well, and suffer...
8 of the Best Hamstring Exercises for Meaty Legs TOPIC: Your hamstrings are not just for decoration or making yoga feel impossible. They’re essential for basically any athletic movement involving your legs—jumping, running, lunging, squatting, and picking up weight....
Top 10 Bar Muscle Up Progressions TOPIC: One of the most advanced gymnastics skills is now regularly taught in CrossFit classes: the muscle up. You can do them on a pull up bar or gymnastics rings; you can do them strict or with a heaving full-body kip. That is, if...
Bench Press: To Arch or Not To Arch? TOPIC: Everyone online seems to have a strong opinion about arching your back in the bench press. The reasons and schools of thought vary around the hows/whys, so what’s a novice athlete to do? Anthony Cuevas, an NCSF Certified PT...
How to Do Leg Extensions Without a Machine TOPIC: Short shorts are the new stinger tanks. Rocking those big tree trunks with canyon deep cuts is so hot. Leg extensions are a bodybuilding staple—they isolate your quads, the front-facing muscle group of your thighs, by...
