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How to Clean Your Dumbbells, According to a Gym Owner
YOUR HOME GYM probably gets plenty of action, and odds are high you’ve cleaned your dumbbell collection next to never. That means everything that’s on your hands can build up on those handles, creating a collection of gunk you could do without. Before you grab a pair of bleach wipes and go to town to try to make up for lost time, it’s important to remember that there’s a right and wrong way to clean dumbbells. Things like the material that covers your dumbbells and the type of weights you have can dictate the proper way to attack cleaning, too.
MH Advisory BoardMH Advisory BoardBuild Major Back Strength With Barbell RowsBy David Otey, C.S.C.S.Jun 20, 2025
. Clickhereto learn more about the Men’s Health expert advisory board. WHEN MOST PEOPLE think of building the a powerful, strong body, they think about adding muscle on their chest, arms, and shoulders. They also think of doing a handful of classic exercises, moves like bench presses and deadlifts, and squats, and curls, and pullups. All of that is great, of course, but it omits an exercise that’s critical for your growth, and for the overall health and balance of your torso. That exercise is the barbell row, and it’s a move you absolutely need to have in your training repertoire.
The MH 25 Strength and Bounce Workouts
Clickhereto discover the 25 athletes in the Men's Health 25, a celebration of the top athletes in the high school class of 2025. THE KEY TO gains is at any age is consistency, says MH fitness director Ebenezer Samuel, CSCS. He designed these easy-to-stick-to workouts with inspiration from the athletes in the MH 25 and their training moves and also Brian Harrington, CSCS, who’s spent more than a decade training youth sports stars. The first workout focuses on strength, helping you build the muscle you need to succeed. The second workout is all about power.
Half-Kneeling Pallof Press: The Anti-Rotation Core Exercise That Helps Build Stronger Lifts
Rotation exercises are all the rage because they look cool and athletic. But performing them before this could be glossing over a little-known weakness that’s holding back your bigger lifts. Anti-rotation strength. Your lack of anti-rotation strength shows up when you leak force the moment the weight gets heavy. It is a shift, rotation, or tilt in your torso during presses, pulls, deadlifts, and squats. The half-kneeling Pallof press addresses this issue at the source. It trains your core and hips to lock your torso in place as the external load tries to twist you out of position.
How the 5-3-1 Workout Program Builds Massive Strength
SO, YOU WANT to get strong and build muscle, but you don’t have a ton of time to dedicate to the gym. You can try the 5/3/1 training split, a workout plan that helps to streamline your lift without cutting corners. As the name implies, lifters wave through sets of five, three, and one rep over the course of the split. It has been helping lifters build strength in some of the heaviest movements in the gym—the squat, deadlift, bench press, and overhead press—for years. The program incorporates lifting heavy weights for a low number of reps. One of the main benefits, says Shawn Arent, Ph.