by Men's Health | Jun 18, 2024 | Workouts
A fragile ego steers most men away from those 5kg dumbbells, but it’s that same ego that’s costing you some serious perks. Working both ends of the dumbbell rack hits a broader spectrum of muscle fibres and challenges your muscles in ways that using...
by Men's Health | Jan 23, 2024 | Workouts
Spiralling exercises involve repeatedly moving a simple object through space in a rotating trajectory—in other words, some form of corkscrewing, figure 8, or loop-the-loop pattern. These moves sharpen the capacity of your shoulders, elbows, and wrists to supinate and...
by Men's Health | Dec 14, 2023 | Workouts
Making merry can also mean manufacturing muscle—with the right moves. Perform the following exercises as a circuit, moving from one exercise to the next with 30 seconds of rest between them. When starting, complete 6 reps per exercise for your first circuit. Then try...
by Mens Health | Oct 19, 2017 | Fitness
The lying miniband hip flexion extension may be a mouthful of an exercise, but it’s also a great multi-tasker. You’ll light up your abs, bulletproof your lower back, strengthen your hip flexors, mobilise your hips, and improve your squatting and running mechanics,...
by Mens Health | Nov 17, 2016 | Fitness
Like most guys, I hated stretching. Why waste time sitting around when I could cram in more lifting? It hurt to learn that I was wrong—throbbed like hell, actually. I hurt my hip doing a leg workout and going running the same day, and had to shut down. I called Doug...
