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"What to pack for a Hyrox Competition" - Jade Skillen, Hyrox Master Trainer
For Hyrox Comp Day my Built For Athletes backpack is a no brainer to carry everything I need for race day! First up is my Built For Athletes meal prep box where I carry protein powder & my key supplements such...
The Rock’s Dumbbell Leg Finisher
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is great at sharing his workouts on his social media accounts, and he’s been at it again with a brutal dumbbell leg finisher. In the recent post, you could see his quads contracting so hard they...
5-Minute Finishers To Build Powerful Arms
Finishers are a great way to fully exhaust muscles at the end of a workout, helping to increase their endurance, capacity and size. Powerful arms are something a lot of athletes seek for aesthetic reasons, but they’re also a key...
4 Landmine Exercises To Build Strength
Utilising a landmine in your strength training is a great way to bring in variation to your workouts. It encourages you to work with different planes of movement, helps you work on your coordination and breaks up some of the...
6 Christmas Gift Ideas For Athletes
6 Christmas Gift Ideas For Athletes When buying Christmas gifts, people tend to fall into two categories - they either love it and get nearly everything done well in advance or put it off as long as possible. Whichever camp...
Lowering Weights Is Most Important For Muscle Gains, New Research Shows
We’d all like to get more efficient with our training, ensuring we get maximum returns on the time we put in.One factor many athletes may be neglecting is the importance of eccentric muscle contractions (involving a lengthening of the muscle)...
We use grip strength all the time, not just in the gym but in nearly every activity we do. A lot of us ignore working on it but the potential benefits are huge. The muscles that control your grip are...
5 Activation Exercises For Better Lower-Body Workouts
Activation exercises are one of the best ways to warm up for a workout. You can develop a highly effective routine of movements before each session if you know which exercises to pick from. By activating the leg muscles, particularly...
Tia-Clair Toomey’s Pre-Workout Stretch Routine For Mobility
In a recent YouTube video, Tia-Clair Toomey says she does these stretches at the start of each day before she starts her workouts so that she feels more mobile and can move more freely. Moving more fluidly can help us...