Body of Knowledge
These shoulder muscles have anterior, lateral, and posterior heads.
What are the deltoids?
This nutrient is the body’s main building block for repairing and growing muscle.
What is protein?
Known as “The Greatest,” this boxer famously said he would float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This exercise involves lowering your chest toward the floor while supported by your hands and toes.
What is a push-up?
This film follows Adonis, the son of Apollo Creed, as he trains under Rocky Balboa.
What is Creed?
This body part is the star of both squats and approximately half of Instagram.
What are the glutes?
Muscles primarily grow during this period—not while you are actually lifting.
What is rest or recovery?
This tennis legend won 23 Grand Slam singles titles and dominated opponents with one of the sport’s greatest serves.
Who is Serena Williams?
In a workout plan, “3 sets of 10” means doing this many total repetitions.
What is 30?
This comedy follows a former hockey player who discovers that his violent slap shot works surprisingly well in golf.
What is Happy Gilmore?
Shrugs mainly target this upper-back area.
What are the traps?
This supplement is one of the most heavily studied for improving strength and high-intensity performance.
What is creatine?
This quarterback won seven Super Bowls and continued playing long after most athletes begin discussing golf.
Who is Tom Brady?
A triathlon combines swimming, cycling, and this activity.
What is running?
This romantic sports drama follows Monica and Quincy, childhood neighbors whose basketball careers and relationship grow up together.
What is Love & Basketball?
Romanian deadlifts tend to make these muscles regret everything the next morning.
What are the hamstrings?
This training principle means gradually increasing weight, reps, or difficulty over time.
What is progressive overload?
This NBA legend has been accused of traveling, flopping, controlling the front office, and somehow still being elite after approximately 40 seasons.
Who is LeBron James?
This fitness activity features poses such as downward-facing dog, despite involving very few actual dogs.
What is yoga?
In this baseball movie, Brad Pitt uses statistics to build a winning team on a limited budget.
What is Moneyball?
This neglected muscle group is the reason some enormous men appear to be standing on two breadsticks.
What are the calves?
This cellular structure is often called the “powerhouse of the cell,” especially by anyone trying to prove they remember high-school biology.
What is the mitochondrion?
This six-time Mr. Olympia champion was nicknamed “The Shadow” because he avoided publicity, appeared once a year, and arrived looking like someone had fed a refrigerator protein powder.
Who is Dorian Yates?
In this technique, a lifter reaches the end of a set, immediately reduces the weight, and continues questioning every decision that led there.
What is a drop set?
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays mind games with Lou Ferrigno in this bodybuilding documentary set around the 1975 Mr. Olympia.
What is Pumping Iron?