Weightlifting can compliment any fitness plan. However, you'll want to guard against the most common mistakes made by new and seasoned weightlifters alike.
Squats are great for toning your glutes and legs, but you may want to up the challenge with a resistance band. Here's how to do banded squat variations.
The idea that lifting weights makes women (especially) bulk up like Arnold Schwarzenegger in his heyday is as tough to budge as a 350-pound barbell. But adding weights to your workout provides health benefits beyond building muscle, says Kaley Hatfield, a certified professional fitness trainer.
Squats are a staple exercise in nearly every workout, and with good reason. But for all their benefit, they're also an easy move to perform wrong, which can lead to injury. Here's how to do them correctly.
A simple squat is a foundational movement that is key to getting fitter and stronger, but sometimes, squatting can lead to an aching back long after you've racked your weights and left the gym.
Have you ever been to the gym and seen somebody lifting an impressive amount of weights, and then you happened to notice they're barefoot or just wearing socks? As it turns out, these bare-or-stocking-foot lifters aren't just doing it to show off their stinky feet.