If you’re training at a full gym with lots of equipment, you may see a rack full of weights that resemble barbells, except they’re shorter with several bends in the middle. This is called a curl bar — ...

Alan Ritchson is, of course, seriously jacked. To play Jack Reacher in the Reacher series, one non-negotiable expectation is that the American actor lives and breathes the gym. He packed on 13kg of ...

What if we told you the biceps aren’t the biggest part of your arm? Everyone loves curling weights to get arms like Arnold, ...

When it comes to back training, you'll find that it's helpful to work with heavy weights. That approach works great when you’re trying to pack on size, but you're not always putting yourself in the ...

The first versions of the barbell were found in the 1860s in European gymnasiums, but Alan Calvert of the Milo Barbell Co. is credited with the first barbell patent in 1902. For the past 123 years, ...

I am a fan of the standard Olympic bar for lifting weights. Gyms wouldn’t be the same without them. Don’t get me wrong, machines are swell. But I prefer the feel of an old-fashioned barbell. The cold ...

Sebastien Oreb—known online as the Australian Strength Coach—shared his five favorite upper-body exercises for building serious strength and size. He picked these lifts as if they were the only ones ...

You must have seen a weird, squiggly shaped barbell in your gym which is shaped like a wide M. These barbells are known as E-Z bars and were designed to take the stress off your wrist when doing ...