Walk into any hardcore gym in the seventies and you’d see it everywhere. Lifters crowded around a barbell, sleeves rolled tight, fighting through a set of curls that burned so intensely it became a ...

Walk into a serious gym in the 1970s, and you’d often see lifters cranking out 21s — partial and full reps combined for a brutal, muscle-frying pump. These sets weren’t a gimmick; they created tension ...

Heavy lifts tend to get all the attention in the gym, but sometimes the biggest strength gains happen in the smallest range of motion. That’s the philosophy behind ‘short-range’ lifting, a training ...