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2 Ways To Improve Your Max Bench Your max will increase if you do the right things in the gym to build up to it. Working sets with 3-5 reps, focusing on great form, will help your strength and size improve which will lead to a better max lift to impress coaches.  Another great thing you can do, which is one of my personal favorites is doing sets where you control the weight down and focus on exploding up. Otherwise known as tempo reps. Have someone count down (or you can count down) from 5 as you go down with...

3 Best Foods To Eat To Gain Weight Meats and Chicken. These two food groups are a great source of protein. If you can consume 1-1.5 grams of protein per pound of body weight you are putting yourself in a good position to gain weight. Healthy Carbs. Carbs like sweet potatoes, brown rice, and grains will all help with weight gain. Sweet potatoes and brown rice especially are slow developing carbs. It takes a while for them to exert all the energy they give you, so this will help you perform better in your workouts. That’s the second benefit to...

3 Tips To Improve Your Squat Max The first tip I want to discuss is form. If you have the correct form where you almost sit back on your heels (not actually, but you don’t let your knees go over your toes) and keep your back straight/ chin forward you will have a more improved squat. How you can get to this point is by improving your core strength. A lot of guys have a weak core so their back rounds on a squat. If you improve your core stability and strength you will be able to control more weight...

How Athletes Can Burn More Fat Athletes can burn more fat with their workouts if they increase the intensity. By increasing the intensity I mean cutting out your rest time and doing higher rep exercises. Taking 2-5 minutes in between sets will not help you burn fat. It will help with mass but when it comes to burning fat that is not the recipe. You want to work sets of 10-15 reps or even higher and cut down your rest time to a minute or less. If you can do that you will start to notice some fat loss. Eating...

How Football Players Should Lift Football is a very different game compared to soccer or lacrosse or basketball. It is very stop and go, unless you run a no huddle but even then, each play is usually a max effort play. That’s why it’s important to train correctly for your sport. You shouldn’t be doing sets of 12-15 reps with light weight as a football player. Football is all about being explosive and powerful, using your max effort on each play. Train that way. Lift heavier and focus on explosive lifts. Olympic lifts are very important like power clean and...