While compound moves deliver muscle building bang for your buck in a hurry, neglecting isolation moves could mean skipping a shortcut to hypertrophy. Put simply, if you have specific physique goals, ...

Long-term lifters understand the real importance of leg day (despite how gruelling it may be). Stronger quads help to stabilise our body, power everyday movements, like walking, running and hiking, ...

Building strong, muscular quads is best done with a combination of compound exercises—squats, lunges, leg presses—and isolation work, such as leg extensions. Tack on some powerful plyometric moves, ...

YOU CAN CLASSIFY exercises in a number of ways—by muscle group, movement pattern, or implement used, for example—but one of ...

Ready for leg day? I’ve already shared my favorite exercises for hamstrings and for your glutes (a.k.a. your butt). It’s time to tackle the main muscle group we think of when we think of legs: the ...

This is a subject that always gets the active lifestyle community talking. Some are in awe of it, listing its benefits with show and tell demonstrations, while others, especially the boot camp and ...

Many people like to go to the weight room and start performing the standard isolation exercises by either using a machine weight system or free weights. Afterward, they do a 20- to 30-minute cycle of ...

Functional training has emerged as one of the best ways to workout, especially given the overall performance boost it can give you. It is also very good for your muscles and joints. But there is no ...