Banging out reps is pretty straightforward, generally speaking. Lift the weight, lower the weight, repeat. But if you break down the anatomy of a repetition, there’s more going on than meets the eye.

If you tend to breeze through the "easy" part of an exercise—like lowering into a squat or letting your dumbbells drop after a curl—you might be missing a major opportunity to build strength. That ...

I'm all for trying the latest and greatest trendy workouts. But part of building a fun fitness routine that *also* delivers major results includes going back to basics. I'm talking basics—as in, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are actually three phases of each rep: the concentric (the "up" portion), the eccentric (the "lowering" portion), and the ...

If you're like most guys in the gym, when you're doing a big lift—whether it's a max bench, a PR squat, or the last rep of a strip set of curls—you're focused on one thing: Getting that weight up. The ...