by Mens Health | Dec 19, 2022 | Fitness
Performing endless abdominal crunches isn’t the only—or even the best—way to sculpt a rock-solid core. Multimuscle exercises, such as the braced squat, build a stronger foundation for your body and more muscular legs, says strength and conditioning coach Alwyn...
by Kieran Legg | Dec 16, 2022 | Fitness
Developing strength is easy when you first start hitting the gym. “Your muscles go through a learning process, so almost anything you do triggers growth,” says trainer Mike Boyle. “But eventually your muscles adapt, improvements level off and you have to train smarter...
by Mens Health | Nov 16, 2022 | Fitness, Workouts
The gym has been my home for more than four decades. Spend that much time anywhere and you will figure out what works and what doesn’t. Take building muscles, for instance. The greatest fallacy of the mass-building industry is that some big-armed expert is hoarding...
by Mens Health | Oct 26, 2022 | Fitness
Bernard Yang Kim never wanted to be a bodybuilder. The 31-year-old currency trader simply wanted to look chiselled—like an underwear model, he jokes. Which is why he found it odd to be staring up at a 140kg barbell. He had never benched so much weight in his life; few...
by Mens Health | Sep 27, 2022 | Fitness
Men get more benefit from sprint interval training than women, according to a study by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Although, both sexes experience a similar increase in aerobic capacity, men’s bodies produce more protein as a result...