Strength Training

Not sure if you should hit the treadmill or the weights first? Here's how to set up your workout for optimal results.

In every issue of practically every women's fitness magazine, you're presented with a new workout that promises crazy results in minutes a day by 'toning muscles' with light weights and crazy equipment.

Finally: Strength training for women! Build sexy bulk-free muscle with these body shaper tips!

Can't afford a gym membership? Uses these tips to get fit - for free!

Want to take up a strength or weight-lifting program, but don't know where to start? Here are the basic guidelines, rules, and easy-to-follow workouts.

Strength isn't limited to muscle size and capacity. You see, when you get stronger, you're better able to lose weight, run faster, and hit harder. Convinced you need to work on your strength?

Strength training can help you look good - and feel even better.

Eat clean and lift heavy. If there's one constant thing we say across Nerd Fitness, it's that if you want to lose weight, gain muscle, or just look better

Strength training is the key to building muscle. Give these essential exercises (complete with a full-body workout routine) a try to increase your strength and kick-start your muscle growth.

Strength training is a type of physical exercise specializing in the use of resistance to induce muscular contraction which builds the strength, anaerobic endurance, and size of skeletal muscles.

Starting Strength Articles by Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength Coaches, strength coaches and select contributors

Starting Strength Articles by Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength Coaches, strength coaches and select contributors

Starting Strength Articles by Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength Coaches, strength coaches and select contributors

Starting Strength Articles by Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength Coaches, strength coaches and select contributors

Starting Strength Articles by Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength Coaches, strength coaches and select contributors

The Starting Strength article library provides content by Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength Coaches and invited strength coaches

Mark Rippetoe is the author of Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, Practical Programming for Strength Training, Strong Enough?, Mean Ol' Mr. Gravity, and numerous journal, magazine and internet articles. Rip was a competitive powerlifter for ten years, has coached many lifters and athletes, and has given seminars to thousands around the country.