The bench press is one of the most popular exercises for developing the upper body.
Most often, people perform this exercise with a barbell.
However, there are numerous other modalities you can perform a bench press with, one of which is a smith machine.
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The barbell bench press is probably the most popular upper body exercise. In a previous article, we’ve detailed a fair amount of research depicting how effective the barbell bench press is at inducing chest hypertrophy.
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Rows and lat-pulldowns are two of the most popular back and biceps exercises performed in a program.
As far as back development goes, the inclusion of these two exercises in a program seems like a good idea, as they may be complementary.
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In the bodybuilding world, it’s not uncommon to see a constant tension technique being used.
Typically, this is done by avoiding locking out the joints in an exercise, resulting in the muscle producing continuous tension for the full duration of a set.
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Up until recently, the scientific consensus was trending towards the idea that a full range of motion is better than a partial range of motion for muscle growth.
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When it comes to your muscles performing optimally, its heat is often an underrated component.
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When it comes to maximizing muscle growth, it’s far from uncommon to hear that time under tension is an important component.
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One of the more popular gym goals folks have is to increase their arm size.
Training the biceps is undoubtedly an important component of this.
However, it should be noted the triceps are roughly 2.5 times larger than the biceps.
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I recently came across some research exploring if heavy and light loads produce different regional muscle growth.
Put differently, could heavy and light loads result in different growth on parts of a muscle?
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Strength before size?
Could aiming to increase your strength first, defined as increasing your one-repetition maximum on an exercise, help you build more muscle with that exercise later?
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