Wouldn’t it be nice to have a single webpage dedicated to the best fitness advice, articles, and apps on the WWW?
Guess what, you’re in luck! This page serves as a repertoir of the top-knotch fitness and health websites approved by the queen. Don’t forget to bookmark this page, for easy reference later!
Tweet @lizmillerfit to have your favorite fitness site added to the queen’s list. Shoutout to those who made the cut.
Strength Standards
Ever wonder how your lifts stack up others at the same height, weight, and gender? Well Strength Standards has all this figured out! Just type in your currrent stats, your best weight x reps for the big 4 (bench, squat, deadlift, press), and Strength Standards will tell you how you compare.
This website can also be used to generate progressions. If you’re stuck in a plateau with any of your lifts, you can generate progressions for popular lifting programs (5/3/1, Stronglifts, Cube Method, etc.).
Overall, Strength Standards is a great tool for benchmarking your current strength relative to your current size. The only downfall is you cannot “log” your progress with Strength Standards. Because of this, I recommend taking a look at the Strong App.
Strong (App for iOS)
Track your progress on any lift with this app for iOS. I have been using this app since Jan 2016, and let me tell you, it beats out the pencil-paper method by a million. (And I was an avid user of notebooks and training templates throughout the years.)
If you have an iDevice, switching to Strong provides you the simplicity of a notebook without the complexity and hassle of determining how much weight, how many sets/reps, and what you need to do in order to achieve progressive overload. You can see the exact weight and reps you did previously for each exercise, and that’s something that you cannot do with a notebook.
Strong allows you to create custom workout routines and exercises and also provides a built-in set timer, warm-up calculator, and plate calculator. You can mark sets as “warm-up”, “drop-set”, or “failure”. It’s also easy to see progress over time, because each completed routine is added to the master calendar and PR’s are recorded into charts for each exercise.
Strong stores all your data in the cloud and has the option to integrate with Facebook. Overall, it’s provided me with a great value for the price. Note, I am not endorsed to say anything positive about Strong. I have had such a great experience with the app, and it’s constantly receiving updates (buy the full version with upgrades in perpetuity!) by their development team. Have a look at it, and let me know what you think!
Muscle For Life | Michael Matthews
Mike Matthews has written multiple books and articles around fitness, bodybuilding, and strength training. Notorious for his best-selling books, “Bigger Leaner Stronger” (for men) and “Thinner Leaner Stronger” (for women), Matthews provides scientific evidence alongside his recommendations while explaining the “how’s” and “why’s” of nutrition and training in language anyone can understand.
You can learn more about him, his training philosophies, and programs on his website.
RippedBody | Andy Morgan
I’m adding RippedBody.com to the list of awesome fitness links because this website has a wealth of “legitimate” information that simplifies the training and nutrition components of fitness. I am especially a fan of Andy’s free guide, The Complete Guide to Your Diet, which outlines how to take control of your nutrition plan by prioritizing caloric, macronutrient, and micronutrient intake. I’m personally following IIFYM, and this guide has helped me determine what I should focus on to align my nutrition to my training goals.
last updated:
2016-11-25
2016-12-23