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A Top Trainer Shared His Workout for Building ‘Boulder Shoulders’

In a new video on the Athlean-X channel, strength coach Jeff Cavaliere C.S.C.S. demonstrates a series of exercises that he says will help you build “boulder shoulders” by recruiting all three heads of the deltoid muscle.

He starts off with the dumbbell seesaw press, an alternating overhead press variation where you push one arm up as you’re pulling the other down. “Neurologically, we actually function as push-pull machines, so we can get better output by pulling down while we’re trying to push up,” says Cavaliere.

He recommends doing this for 4 sets, starting with a weight where you can reach failure in the 8 to 10 rep range, then switching to a weight where you’ll fail at 6 to 8 reps for the second, third and fourth sets. Then when you’re hitting fatigue after the fourth set, finish off by dropping one of the dumbbells and perform over-and-backs, using

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A Trainer Shared a Chest and Back Workout to Boost Muscle Growth

In a new video on the Athlean-X channel, Jeff Cavaliere C.S.C.S. explains how he has been able to keep training while recovering from a pretty serious shoulder injury, by dropping the volume of his workouts and increasing the load. He uses his chest and back workout as an example, demonstrating how this approach can stimulate the muscles in a new way.

“The thing that will bother a damaged structure is not going to be the load, it’s going to be the accumulation of more and more rotations on the tire,” he says, adopting a car metaphor. “So volume is what you need to manipulate when there’s already an issue… The volume is going to exacerbate an underlying condition that’s already there.”

Instead of performing one high-volume set after another, Cavaliere focuses on performing a smaller number of reps at a higher intensity on each exercise, increasing the weight and reaching

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‘Thor: Love and Thunder’: Natalie Portman Workout Routine

Now let’s get into it: Here’s how Portman got those toned arms.

Natalie Portman holding a hammer

Natalie Portman truly is Mighty Thor.

Marvel


Pendergast noted that they only had four months before shooting started to get Portman to look like Mighty Thor. She said it was the star’s dedication that led to the results they got.

“Natalie is a very focused, hardworking, and determined woman, which was the main reason we were able to reach the goal look in time for filming,” Pendergast said.

Here’s the workout routine Portman did to get her toned arms:

Warm-up:

30 seconds: Marching arms 
30 seconds: Lat stretch 
30 seconds: Beast crawl 
10 reps: Roll down walk outs 
25 reps: Power band kneeling reverse fly 

Main set:

4 sets/12 reps: Banded pull-ups
4 sets/25 reps: Dumbbell straight arm lateral raise
 (rest 1.5 minutes) 
 
4 sets/20 reps: Straight arm raise (palms up) 
4 sets/1 minute: Reverse plank
(rest

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