Expert fitness advice, workout tips, and training guides to help you reach your strength and muscle-building goals.
Work out what to keep when you have 30, 45 or 60 minutes to lift, with honest time budgets for warm-up, working sets, setup and rest.
Two gym sessions, two saved routines, and a clear way to add reps and weight. Follow a full-body plan that keeps the workload manageable.
Start with two beginner barbell workouts using squat, bench press, row, overhead press, and deadlift. Clear progression, with small optional accessories.
Two full-body workouts for dumbbells and a bench, with clear rep targets, exercise notes, and options when you reach your heaviest available weight.
Push, pull, legs, upper, lower. Five complete routines, a weekly schedule, and a progression rule you can follow without a program engine.
Four gym routines, two upper days, and two lower days. Follow the workout tables, build through the rep ranges, and keep each routine saved.
Choose quad exercises that fit your equipment and complement one another, from squats and leg presses to direct knee-extension work.
An adaptable chest-and-triceps session with exercise guides, sets, reps, rest periods, substitutions, and a clear way to progress.
Most people should train each muscle with 10 to 20 hard sets a week. The number is the easy part. Counting your sets honestly is where it usually goes wrong.
The usual advice is 30 to 90 seconds between sets for muscle growth. The bottom half of that range is probably costing you progress. Here's what the research shows and how long to actually rest.
Push pull legs is the most searched split in lifting, and the common three-day version is the weakest one. Here's the arithmetic behind that, and how to set up a version that works.
I assumed kids would cost me my early mornings. My training log says they took the after-work slot instead. Here's what that actually costs you.
Exercise snacks can improve fitness in inactive adults. Here is what the research tested, and why I think of my own short sessions as strength training.
I once took 112 days off without meaning to. Here's what the research says a break costs you, and what my own training log says it actually cost me.
The advice I see for lifters over 40 swings between denial and surrender. The research supports something duller and more useful: train hard, recover longer, keep the log.
Their comparison page rests on one feature, the Strength Score. I've been building RepCount since 2013, so here is what that number is, what it isn't, and why we haven't built one.
Do you actually need to schedule deload weeks? Probably not. Here's what the research shows, the signs you genuinely need one, and how to run a deload right when it's time.
Stalled lifts usually have boring causes: effort, food, sleep, or a progression method that ran its course. Here's how to diagnose yours in order of likelihood, and what to change.
Two full-body workouts, three training days, and clear rules for adding reps and weight. Set up the routines once and track each session.
Strength training burns fewer calories per hour than cardio, but the number still matters. Here's what the research shows, what actually affects it, and how to get a personalized estimate.
Pen and paper, Notes app, spreadsheet, Notion, or a dedicated tracker? A hands-on comparison from someone who has tried them all.
I built RepCount, so I'm biased. Here's what five iPhone workout trackers offer for free, where their limits matter, and who each app suits.
Your one rep max is the foundation of smart programming. Here's how to calculate it, with or without actually maxing out, and how to use it.
In 2013, I needed a workout tracker that didn't exist. So I built one. Thirteen years, two million downloads, and a global pandemic later, here's the story.
I've built RepCount since 2013, so I'm biased, and I'll admit it. Here's an honest comparison of the best iPhone workout tracker apps, including where competitors genuinely do things better.
You used to have a real program. Now you're a parent. Here's how I stay strong with a home gym, short sessions, and smart use of gym time.
I've built RepCount since 2013, so I'm biased, and I'll admit it. Here's an honest comparison of the best Android workout tracker apps, including where competitors genuinely do things better.
Master the fundamental principle behind muscle growth and strength gains with our comprehensive guide for anyone who wants real results.
Two kettlebells and 30 minutes are enough to train your whole body. Here's how to use them for real strength and conditioning, which sizes to buy, and how to keep progressing.
There are dozens of workout log apps. Most of the marketing is noise. Here are the questions that actually decide whether you'll stick with one, from someone who's built one since 2013.
You lose less than you think during time off, and you get it back faster than you built it. Here is what the research shows, and how to structure the first four weeks back.
RepCount for Android has officially launched after extensive public beta testing. Thousands participated in the beta and the feedback has been amazing.
Log every set, review your past workouts, and follow your strength over time. Available on iOS and Android.
