Since the early 2000s, the United States Army has been devising a new series of fitness tests to better prepare their soldiers for the battlefield. For years, the military's current standard, the Army Physical Fitness Test, has been viewed as an inadequate measure of the muscles and movements that a...
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What 7 Elite Vegan Athletes Eat to Get Ultra-Jacked
At times, it's hard to wrap our protein-obsessed heads around the idea that someone can be meat-free and muscled up. After all, the vast majority of low-carb, high-protein foods come from, y'know, animals. But between movies like What The Health (which argues that we're slowly killing ourselves by loading up...
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Here’s How Much Protein You Should Eat Each Day To Build Muscle
Given that the first dietary change most people make when they start doing strength training is to eat more protein, it’s a relief to find out that scoffing more protein does indeed help build bigger muscles. A review of 49 studies covering a total of 1,863 people who regularly undertook...
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Pro Tips for Tackling CrossFit’s Toughest Moves
No athlete masters double-unders, muscle-ups, and handstand push-ups on day one of CrossFit. Getting these moves down takes practice, patience, and of course a killer training strategy. To give you a leg up, we talked to three CrossFit coaches about the best ways to approach each of these moves. Build...
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The 10 Best TRX Exercises for Men
Men love to lift heavy dumbbells, barbells, and kettlebells and make use of many of the machines in the gym. But, you don't always have to train that way. In fact, there's one piece of equipment you may be neglecting that could seriously help you to improve your lifts: "The...
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7 Functional Fitness Tests for Any Athlete
Here at OverSizeMe, we try to debunk the theory that raw athletic talent is genetic. We’re not referring to bodybuilding, but rather to movements that directly affect sports performance. We believe that by doing specific workouts and doing them over a period of time, a guy can surpass the athletic feats he...
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What Is A Healthy Body Fat Percentage?
In the past men hit the weights room with the primary aim of bulking up, but today the main fitness goal of many is to “get lean” – namely to strip away the fat in your body to reveal the array of muscles beneath. Think Brad Pitt in Fight Club...
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Strengthen Your Upper Body With This Home Workout From Bradley Simmonds
While barbells, dumbbells and kettlebells all help when you’re looking to bulk up, it doesn't take a stacked weights rack and hours in the gym to build strength in your upper body. Next time you have half an hour free at home, try this workout and you’ll see exactly what...
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An Ab Move That Also Works Your Shoulders, Legs, and Glutes
It can take a few sets to get the hang of it, but the kettlebell windmill is a super effective core-strengthening exercise. With the weight positioned overhead, your rectus abdominis and obliques have to work double time to keep the kettlebell stabilized. And because of that stabilization, you’re gonna feel...
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Change Your Reps, Build Muscle Faster
Most novice lifters follow the “more is better” philosophy in an attempt to build quick muscle. But doing umpteen exercises at the gym is a recipe for burnout and, worse yet, injury. Instead, learn to lift smarter with elevator reps, a training technique that focuses on prolonged time under tension...