How To Lift Heavy Weights Safely Without Straining Your Back

Heavy weight training is safe and highly beneficial when performed correctly. Most back injuries occur because of poor technique, excessive weight or inadequate preparation not because lifting itself ...
Runner's World

Here’s Why (and How) Runners Should Lift Heavy Weights

If you’ve gotten a little too comfortable with the same five- and 10-pound dumbbells, you’ve come to the right place. To convince you it’s time to lift heavy weights, we spoke with strength experts ...
Women's Health

I Switched Heavy Lifting for Lighter, High-Rep Workouts—Here’s Why I Won’t Go Back

I’ve been hyperaware of overtraining ever since I suffered a pelvic stress fracture a decade ago. The injury came from excessive exercise and a lack of education around nutrition and recovery, but the ...
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After a 2-year plateau, I built muscle by swapping heavy lifting for lighter, high-rep workouts. Here’s why I won’t go back.

I’ve been hyperaware of overtraining ever since I suffered a pelvic stress fracture a decade ago. The injury came from excessive exercise and a lack of education around nutrition and recovery, but the ...
Women's Health

Lifting Heavy Isn’t the Whole Story When It Comes to Building Strength. Here's What to Do Instead.

My name is Cori Ritchey, and I am an exercise physiology nerd turned fitness journalist, and the fitness editor at Women’s Health. When I’m not writing, editing, and researching fitness, I’m teaching ...
Rolling Out

Why lifting heavy is not the only way to build strength

That idea that you need to grunt and strain under crushing barbells to build serious strength deserves to be tossed in the fitness myth graveyard. The truth about getting stronger without heavyweight ...