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  Resistance bands in the home gym: eight uses, from heavy squats to joint care

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  In strength training, bands serve eight purposes: making resistance progressive on barbell exercises, lightening the bottom of the movement with a reverse setup, developing speed and explosiveness, replacing assistance machines, preparing and recovering around the session, getting a joint working again after an injury, correcting the knee, shoulder and hip, and maintaining conditioning. A rack that offers a low anchor and a high anchor is enough to do it all. Here you will find how to set...

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  Box squat: technique, box height and programming

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  The box squat consists of sitting down on a box placed behind you, staying still for one second without losing your brace, then standing back up from the dead stop. Set at parallel, the box imposes the same depth on every rep and forces you to sit your hips back, which works the glutes, hamstrings and lower back more than the quads. It is done in a rack, with the safeties set just below seat height, as a complement to the regular squat and not as a replacement for it.

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  How should you prepare for your first powerlifting competition?

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  To prepare for a first powerlifting competition, learn the referees' commands and rehearse them in training, then set a cautious attempt plan, opening with a weight you have recently lifted for three clean reps. Next, sort out the logistics: bag packed the night before, rack heights declared at weigh-in while wearing your competition shoes, food you digest well for a 6 to 8 hour day. On the day itself, the main thing is to leave with a valid total and to understand how a competition runs.

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  Bench press: building an arch that holds under load

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  For your arch to hold on the bench press, build it with your legs and hands, not with your back: feet placed to drive toward the head of the bench, open palm set into the bar before you close your hand, then a slide until the back of your neck is pinned. Keep your back loose during this setup and only squeeze your shoulder blades at the start of the descent. Above all, don't let the leg drive go when you unrack the bar from the hooks: that is the moment most arches collapse.

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  Olympic weight plates: how to choose them, how much load to plan for and for which exercises

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  50 mm bore, cast iron, bumper or calibrated, how much total load to plan for: the guide to choosing your Olympic weight plates without getting it wrong.

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  How to build your glutes: the exercises, the programme and the equipment that make the difference

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  Hip thrust, squat, Romanian deadlift: the exercises, the programme and the equipment to build your glutes at home and actually make progress.

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