Author: Coach Horton

Ryan Horton is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) who has served as both a Head Strength and Conditioning Coach and as the Director of Sports Science during his 20 year career at elite collegiate programs including the University of Tennessee, Temple University and Georgia Tech. He also holds an Exercise Science degree from Otterbein College where he was captain of the football team.
Cable Triceps Pushdowns (How To, Muscles Worked, Benefits)

Cable Triceps Pushdowns (How To, Muscles Worked, Benefits)

Triceps Pushdowns are hands down a first-ballot Hall of Fame arm exercise. Walk into any gym in the country right now and I can almost guarantee you you’ll find someone at the cable machine doing Triceps Pushdowns. In this guide, I’m going to teach you how to do Triceps Pushdowns including coaching points for doing…

Barbell Reverse Curls (How To, Muscles Worked, Benefits)

Barbell Reverse Curls (How To, Muscles Worked, Benefits)

Reverse Curls are one of the best biceps exercises for not only working the biceps but engaging the forearms as well. This is because using an overhand grip focuses on the wrist extensors versus the more dominant wrist flexors. Here are instructions on how to do reverse curls, step-by-step, along with what muscles reverse curls…

11 Barbell Curl Alternatives For Jacked Biceps (2023)

11 Barbell Curl Alternatives For Jacked Biceps (2023)

Barbell Curls are arguably the most effective biceps curl exercise for adding mass and building bigger arms. Using a barbell allows the lifter to use more weight and more weight can lead to more size and strength. But, sometimes you might an alternative to Barbell Curls. Maybe you don’t have the proper equipment, maybe barbell…

10 Dumbbell Concentration Curl Alternatives

10 Dumbbell Concentration Curl Alternatives

Dumbbell Concentration Curls are one of the most popular biceps curl exercises. They’re usually the exercise that makes a cameo appearance in movies like when Ron Burgundy was doing ‘a thousand curls’ to work on his ‘upper dorsimus muscles’. But, sometimes you might an alternative to Concentration Curls. Maybe you don’t have the proper equipment…

Seated Alternating Dumbbell Curls (How To & Muscles Worked)

Seated Alternating Dumbbell Curls (How To & Muscles Worked)

Seated Alternating Dumbbell Curls is one of the most popular biceps curl exercises and for good reason. This movement emphasizes flexion and pronation of the arm and supination. It works all parts of the biceps – the biceps, brachialis and even the brachioradialis. And it generates a sick biceps pump that will have you leaving…