After a two-year plateau, I built muscle within two months.

Walk into almost any gym and you'll see two very different training styles. Some lifters perform long sets with lighter weights, while others focus on heavy loads and low repetitions. Both approaches ...

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 ...

Lifting weights of any resistance can be effective, experts say. Here's a strength-training game plan for every goal.

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 ...

Women's Health may earn commission from the links on this page, but we only feature products we believe in. Why Trust Us? There’s a lot to love about lifting heavy weights: It helps you build ...