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How to Lose Weight Fast | Nutrition to Lose Weight Fast | Hack Your Workouts for Fast Weight Loss | Cardio to Lose Weight Fast If you’re tired of struggling to lose weight and are impatient to see some results, we have good news: You have options. And here’s better news: We’re not talking about crash dieting or doing hours of cardio.

Want to start an online fitness flame war? Well, there is no shortage of ways to do it. An increasingly intense one in recent years is the great cardio debate: HIIT or LISS? Choose your fat-burning fighter! Here’s the thing: An exhaustive meta-study concluded in 2017 that high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and low-intensity steady state (LISS) are pretty much

Want to lose weight? Burn more calories than you consume. Yeah, yeah—you’ve heard that part before. But beyond just nailing your diet, what can you do to stay lean while maintaining or adding muscle? You can increase the amount of work you do during your lifting workouts. No, this doesn’t mean turning everything into a

When it comes to burning body fat, diet and cardio are definitely important, but the way you weight train can also have a huge impact on the amount of body fat you drop. There are five main training variables you can manipulate to increase the amount of fat you burn when lifting weights. If you incorporate these variables properly,

Bodybuilding and fitness articles geared toward men often say you need to bulk up when you want to increase muscle tissue. But many women (and plenty of men) have no desire to get bulky while increasing lean mass. This approach works for both men and women who want to build muscle and reduce fat simultaneously, without ”bulking up.” Adding muscle while

You’ve been a fixture on the strongman scene for nearly 20 years, but your strength journey didn’t start there. What was your first experience with lifting?   I started training weights in 1993 while working for Carnival Cruise Lines as a bartender. I lifted in a makeshift gym: a storage room at the front of the

Passing On Your Passion for Fitness to Your Kids | Upgrade Your Dad Bod | Transform Your Bod from Dad to Rad | Cary Went from Dad Bod to Dat Bod If there’s one thing a guy doesn’t want to hear in the gym, it’s someone telling him he has the dreaded “dad bod.” It means you’re not in terrible shape,

Passing On Your Passion for Fitness to Your Kids | Upgrade Your Dad Bod When the term “dad bod” leapt into the popular lexicon a few years ago, few of us could have predicted that it—and the debate around it—would prove to be so long-lasting. Chalk it up to the dual nature of the dad bod.

What is Olympic Lifting | Learn the Olympic Lifts | Olympic Lift Variations | Olympic Lifting and Bodybuilding | How to Master the Olympic Lifts The beauty of Olympic weightlifting is its simplicity. There are only two lifts, so if you’re getting better at them, you’re getting better period. But the downside of weightlifting, as anyone who has gotten deep into the sport can tell you, is that those

A common misconception about Olympic weightlifting is that it’s just made up of two lifts, the snatch and the clean and jerk. Anyone who takes this sport seriously can attest that plenty of their most productive training time is actually spent doing numerous broken-down and re-arranged parts of those two main lifts. Considering getting serious about Oly lifting? Richard LaFountain’s guide to

This is your Murph 2021 headquarters. Learn what this annual challenge is, who’s completing it, and how you can, too! The WOD known as “Murph” started out as a CrossFit tribute to a fallen hero, but has since become a global phenomenon. Performed every Memorial Day, this event brings fitness communities around the world together

Murph | Rhapsody Fitness| District Crossfit | Sergeants Fitness Raising the bar in the heart of downtown Charleston, South Carolina, Rhapsody Fitness is a community of 300 dedicated CrossFit members hungry for glory and ready to crush their fitness goals. Here’s how two Rhapsody standouts have been training hard to prepare for this year’s Murph.

Murph | Rhapsody Fitness | District Crossfit | Sergeants Fitness Born from a legacy of power, strength, and honor and located in the heart of historic downtown Caldwell, Idaho, Sergeants Fitness is a place where the bonds of community, friendship, and family run deep. Community connections are forged through movement and rooted in veteran values

Murph | Rhapsody Fitness | District Crossfit | Sergeants Fitness The largest CrossFit gym in Washington, D.C., District CrossFit is an epicenter of motivation and accountability. With a passion for helping their members reach new levels of functional fitness and penchant for building strong community bonds, District CrossFit is a facility where anyone can escape

The age-old desire to build a strong, well-proportioned physique is still alive and well. Yes, the average gym-goer no longer yearns to build a monstrous, freaky, eye-popping body complete with gnarly veins, huge, stumpy legs and the inability to fit into a dress shirt. But everybody in the gym still wants to build an appreciable

Mitch Wagner has a logged a lot of miles, reps, and brutal WODs in pursuit of CrossFit greatness. The Swolverine athlete came about as close to the Games as you can come in 2019, when he was an alternate for Invictus, a former team champion. Two years and some serious injury rehab later, he’s rising the ranks as an individual and feeling ready for any challenge. Wagner was a regular at CrossFit regionals five years in a

Strongman in a Normal Gym | Strongman Competition Guide | Nutrition for Strongman | Strongman for Bodybuilders The names just sound strong: Magnús ver Magnússon. Jón Páll Sigmarsson. Mariusz Pudzianowski. The immortal Bill Kazmaier. Many of us grew up watching these giants performing unfathomable feats at the World’s Strongest Man competition and knew right away that we wanted to be like them.

What is Strongman? | Strongman in a Normal Gym | Strongman for Bodybuilding | Nutrition for Strongman When I was a 21-year-old, 175-pound kid relatively new to the world of lifting weights, some friends introduced me to an underground sport known as strongman. I was initially wary, but loved the spectacle and slowly began to infiltrate their

Strongman in a Normal Gym | Strongman Competition Guide | Nutrition for Strongman | Strongman for Bodybuilding Q: Strongman training looks cool, but complicated. And I’m no pro strongman, just someone who wants to be big and strong. What’s a simple place to start?  Yes, strongman and bodybuilding training can play nicely together. In fact, both

What is Strongman? | Strongman in a Normal Gym | Strongman for Bodybuilding | Bodybuilding for Strongman  In every sport, there is a time and place to go hard on the specifics of competition and chase achievement. Then, there’s a time to build back up what competition breaks down.   The sport of strongman is no different. You may picture the world’s strongest

What is Olympic Lifting | Learn the Olympic Lifts | Olympic Lift Variations | Olympic Lifting and Bodybuilding Lifters tend to shy away from the Olympic lifts, the barbell snatch and the clean and jerk, because they look complicated and require a great deal of technique. But in those two challenges lie their biggest benefits. With time and practice,

What is CrossFit? | CrossFit for Bodybuilders | Bodybuilding for CrossFitters | Best CrossFit Supplements CrossFit has been around in one form or another for over 20 years. But ask anyone who does it what, exactly, CrossFit ”is,” and you’ll still usually get a ”Well…” This intense and occasionally controversial training style has always been tough to pin down or define. But that’s

What is Olympic Lifting | Learn the Olympic Lifts | Olympic Lift Variations | Olympic Lifting and Bodybuilding Learning the Olympic lifts is a game-changer for a lot of lifters. Yes, the clean and jerk and the snatch require coordination, timing, mobility, and explosiveness. But here’s the thing: the full Olympic-grade snatch and clean and

What is CrossFit | CrossFit for Bodybuilders | Bodybuilding for CrossFitters | Best CrossFit Supplements In certain bodybuilding circles, there are some words you simply don’t use. And CrossFit is one of them—right? Actually, a large and growing number of bodybuilders are more exhausted with beefing with CrossFit than they are with CrossFit itself. And honestly, it’s very

KC Mitchell Chest Workout | KC Mitchell Back Workout | KC Mitchell Podcast When you put a world-class powerlifter and a fearless Afghan war vet in a gym and give them some time to come up with a plan, you’re going to end up with one hell of a workout. Last time, KC Mitchell (the

KC Mitchell Chest Workout | KC Mitchell Back Workout | KC Mitchell Podcast “Two Strong Guys Pulling Some Unbelievably Heavy Iron.” If this video was a feature-length film, that might be its title, as record-setting powerlifter Jesse Norris and Afghan War vet and powerlifter KC Mitchell, founder of Rising Labs, hit the gym and place their back muscles under

As long as I can remember, my week was defined by the wide range of sports and activities I threw myself into. One day, I was running or biking. Then next, rock climbing and gymnastics. As a kid, I was attending ballet classes five days a week. As an adult, I was completing triathlons or marathons, then