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BraunS / Getty When to Do It After any workout when you're feeling particularly enegeric. Or if you're on the clock, this workout is intense enough to be a stand-alone training sessions. Why Do It Easy: You're accumulating more volume for all your major muscle groups: legs, back, chest, and...

eclipse_images / Getty Any successful fat loss program is going to take you out of your comfort zone, both in the gym and in the kitchen. Effective fat loss workouts are generally energy depleting and physically and mentally taxing and best paired with a nutritional plan of attack that’s filled...

Ian Spanier We've got some great news: It doesn’t take a laundry list of exercises and an hour-plus to tone your body and build strength. Not when your program is intelligently designed, that is. In this case, it takes only two moves, thanks to the programming chops of renowned trainer Zach...

SolStock / Getty If you're looking for a hardcore workout to tone your legs up, look no further than this higher-rep routine that's sure to leave you feeling sore the next day. “The routine is structured to pre-exhaust the leg muscles," says Tim Gardner, fitness coach and IFBB Pro League...

Akim Williams trains with Oscar Ardon to prepare for the 2019 Arnold Classic. Watch his brutal leg workout. To prepare for the Arnold Classic, you have to go big or go home. That's why at the pinnacle of a brutal leg workout, trainer Oscar Ardon pushes IFBB pro and Arnold Classic contender Akim...

Fitness coach Flex Cabral pits Isopure against one of his most intense workouts. Cardio workouts don't have to mean slogging away on a treadmill or stationary bike for hours. Brooklyn-based fitness coach, Isopure athlete, and founder of Trooper Fitness, Flex Cabral, designed this intense...

Per Bernal / M+F Magazine The gym is your playground. Use everything it has to offer—free weights, machines, cables—to build size, strength, and balanced symmetry. Excluding any one piece of equipment as “nonfunctional” is being close-minded to all the benefits that can be reaped from doing an...

Per Bernal / M+F Magazine The February issue of Muscle & Fitness features the workout tips, muscle-building recipes, and motivation you need to sculpt your dream physique and hit your strength goals in 2019. Our February cover star, David Morin, went from lying in a hospital bed in a coma just...

Pollyana FMS / Getty Ready to jumpstart your own body transformation? Try this sample weight lifting plan for women workout from Shannon Dey, M.S., founder and CEO of Bombshell Fitness, a competitive training and coaching group for female athletes. If this expert-grade routine seems intense...