Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Banging out reps is pretty straightforward, generally speaking. Lift the weight, lower the weight, repeat. But if you break down ...

POV: YOU’RE COMPLETING your final set of heavy bench presses, and the last rep of your set doesn’t quite make it all the way back to the rack. Two things likely happen: first, hopefully your spotter ...

Eccentric exercise focuses on movements, or phases of a movement, that lengthen the muscles. Some examples of eccentric exercise include lowering into a squat or lowering into a press-up. In contrast, ...

Banging out reps is pretty straightforward, generally speaking. Lift the weight, lower the weight, repeat. But if you break down the anatomy of a repetition, there’s more going on than meets the eye.

If you're like most guys in the gym, when you’re doing a big lift—whether it’s a max bench, a PR squat, or the last rep of a strip set of curls—you’re focused on one thing: Getting that weight up. The ...

Understand the science of lifting versus lowering to optimize your training and break through your next plateau. Banging out reps is pretty straightforward, generally speaking. Lift the weight, lower ...