Building big muscles requires lifting big weights. That's an article of faith in gyms around the world – which is why McMaster University exercise scientist Dr. Stuart Phillips has faced such an ...

YOU DON'T HAVE to spend all your waking hours at the gym if you want to build muscle. Sure, there might be a group of meatheads you see around the squat rack every time you clock in and out for a ...

JUST ABOUT EVERY gym best practice has an exception. If you've read enough of our fitness advice (or you hang around enough CrossFit boxes or with functional fitness devotees), you might have heard ...

When you start weight training, people may tell you to buy some pieces of equipment, including lifting gloves, knee straps, and even a belt. More often than not, however, no one tells you to buy ...

Back-off sets are the strength technique that helps you build muscle and improve performance without overtraining. Here’s how to do them right.

That idea that you need to grunt and strain under crushing barbells to build serious strength deserves to be tossed in the fitness myth graveyard. The truth about getting stronger without heavyweight ...

The fitness industry has convinced everyone that building serious muscle requires loading barbells with intimidating amounts of weight and grunting your way through sets that make you question your ...

Back in 2010, researchers at McMaster University proposed a heretical idea. To build big muscles, they suggested, you don’t necessarily have to lift big weights. Instead, their research showed the ...