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The 5 Seated Barbell Exercises to Use When Injured

Having a serious knee, ankle or foot injury can have a huge impact on your training programme. Moving and training around injuries can be a great way to improve recovery time and also keep spirits high while recovering as injuries can be a very challenging period, especially for people who are used to moving a lot throughout the week. That’s why we have provided these 5 seated barbell exercises you can add into your recovery programme.

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The 5 Best Barbell Quad Exercises

If you’re looking to grow you’re quads and you have a barbell you’re in luck. Some of the most effective exercises for growing the quads are performed with barbells so achieving your goal should be very realistic. Here we have provided 5 barbell exercises for quads that you can consider adding into your training programme, all of which are squat variations.

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The 6 Best Barbell Glute Exercises For Strength and Hypertrophy

The barbell is one of the best pieces of equipment available for growing and strengthening the glutes. It really cannot be compared to the kettlebell or the dumbbell purely for the fact that the barbell hip thrust is the key exercise that can be used to load the glutes with very heavy loads. On top of that there is the fact that it can be targeted with other exercises that do not specifically target the glutes. Here we have provided the 6 best exercises you can add to your training programme to both gain muscle in and strengthen the glute muscles.

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The 4 Essential Barbell Exercises For Strength

There is no doubt that the barbell is the most effective piece of equipment when you’re training to get strong. Exercise selection can be difficult when there is an endless amount of options, that is why we made curated the top four barbell exercises you should be using in your strength training regime.

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The 5 Barbell Exercises For Baseball Players Training Programmes

It’s really important for baseball players to be in peak condition to not only perform at the best of their ability but also to insure they can mitigate injury. In this article we provide 5 barbell exercises you should consider adding into your strength and conditioning routine.

4 min read

The 5 Best Barbell Exercises for Mass Gain

There really is no secret to mass gain, it involves a lot of work and a lot of patience and then a lot more work and a lot more patience. Completing high repetitions of these barbell movement below on a consistent basis will massively help you in your endeavour to grow muscles.

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The Proper Stance For Squats

Finding the correct stance for your squat will allow you to build a base of strength in one of the fundamental movement patterns done in the weight room. It’s important to take your time and find what works best for you.

4 min read

The Best Way to Design Barbell Complex Exercises

Barbell complexes are an excellent way to build high amounts of volume into very short periods of time and can be a great tool to mix up and add variety to the standard training regime you might follow. They should be added with caution as they can accumulate very large amounts of fatigue, so only attempt them if you feel very competent with the exercises you’re putting into the complex.

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8 Dumbbell Exercises for Traps Training

Training the traps can be difficult if all you have access to is dumbbells. Thankfully there is a lot of carry over from hinge variations to the traps, so a lot of these variations primarily train the hinge but as a secondary effect will create a stimulus in the traps.

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The 8 Best Erector Spinae Dumbbell Exercises

Training the erector spinae is an important part of any fitness routine. Often times we do not think about specifically working this muscle group and instead progress the posterior chain using the hinge movement pattern. All the movements outlines below are hinge movements that will allow you to train your erector spinae using dumbbells.

4 min read

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