One of the ever-raging debates heard in most gyms is whether using weights or machines is more effective for building muscle.

Let's face it: when you don't know how to use weight machines, they're intimidating as heck. All those knobs, pulleys, and bars? Are you supposed to push or pull? Do you sit up straight? Sideways?

The health and fitness world has become highly scientific, with popular figures like neuroscientist Andrew Huberman giving molecular breakdowns of the body’s inner workings. That level of detail can ...

You might think that if you’re in your 50s or 60s and have never been to a gym before, now is not the time to dive into the weights room, but you could not be more wrong. In fact, not only is it the ...

There’s so much emphasis on how much weight people can lift; it often gets forgotten that there are other variables you should focus on if you want to build strength and muscle and keep on ...

If your goal is strengthening your functional movement patterns, barbells and dumbbells may be your steel key to success. "Free weights more closely replicate the movements required during more ...

Hitting the weight room can be intimidating, especially when everyone there already seems to know what they’re doing. The good news is you don’t have to have a master’s degree in exercise science to ...

In the beginning were free weights. Then, in the 1970s, Arthur Jones invented the Nautilus weight machine. For years afterward, the question of which is better -- free weights or machine weights -- ...