strength training
FitTip: Keep Your Weight Workout Safe
Three hints for staying healthy while you lift.

When you're strength training, all the right moves can make you buff and beautiful. On the flip side, one false move could lead to injury. Be smart during your weight workout by observing the basic tenets of safety:

Keep the movement slow and controlled-don't jerk the weights.

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The Means to a Great End
Have you checked out yourself from behind lately? If you could use some reshaping back there, revamp your rear view in three simple, anyone-can-do moves—no fancy machines required.

The body parts in front of us have it easy. Let our bellies or arms get the least bit flabby, and they cry out for attention every time we look in the mirror.
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Machine Mechanics: Meet Mr. Smith
Machine Mechanics: Meet Mr. Smith This rack is a great way to help you focus on form and factor more safety into a number of essential exercises.

Have you tried a Smith rack? You've almost certainly seen one and probably even used it, though you might not have known it by name. The Smith rack is the one in the free-weight area that looks like a squat rack with an Olympic-size bar fixed on vertical rails, or glide rods.
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Most in the Machine
You’ll find this species of exercise gadget in its natural habitat of hotel workout rooms and home gyms.

It looks like an octopus: one central body with multiple legs extending from the center, the base and the sides. In reality, it's nothing more than a multistation.
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