FAQs: Working Out Your Legs

FAQs: Working Out Your Legs

1. I want to use a skipping rope for cardio. Can I do it without killing my knees? Remember you aren’t Rocky Balboa. Doing his one-foot hop is like having Apollo Creed and Drago pound your kneecaps. The keys to pain-free jumping: (1) Stand Tall, (2) land on both feet,...
How To Upgrade Your Power Lifts

How To Upgrade Your Power Lifts

Upgrade your three power lifts with expert advice 
and assistance work (below) from the man himself. 
“But don’t forget to keep doing the classics,” says Walker; what he refers to as the “meat and potato exercises”: 
the three powerlifts and the other compound moves...
Power Players

Power Players

Robert Walker is in pain. After warming-up in the frenetic pre-lift area at the Vodafone Events Centre in South Auckland, New Zealand. A light deadlift at 140kg has triggered spasms in his lower back, leaving him in horrible levels of hurt. This pain is threatening to...