15th November 2009
Having your own private place to train can really supercharge your bodybuilding progress, and it doesn’t need to cost the earth to set your own gym up either, if you go about it systematically. You don’t need to spend thousands of dollars.
Here...
15th November 2009
If you currently train at a commercial gym, this may be of great interest to you. Once you have your own gym set up at home I guarantee you’ll never look back.
The most important thing about being able to train at home is that it puts you totally i...
15th November 2009
It’s hard to train consistently all year round without a break, although it can be done if you really dedicate yourself to it.
The best way to achieve bodybuilding success is to divide the year up into weight training cycles.
A cycle could be for...
15th November 2009
Overtraining is something you really need to be aware of during your quest to build your ideal physique. If you are genuinely over trained, not only will all progress come to a screeching halt, but you might even regress to losing muscle, and in extreme...
05th November 2009
Rest - pause training with the weights is a terrific muscle building technique that’s really simple to implement, and it can add pounds of muscle to your body if you incorporate it into your weight workouts.
It’s also a way of making your workout...
05th November 2009
A lot of bodybuilders neglect to really train their hamstring muscles properly. Luckily the major lower body compound exercises such as the dead lift, squat and leg press give some work to the hamstrings, but sometimes extra work is needed to really bri...
05th November 2009
Weight training or bodybuilding is a terrific sport with loads of physical and psychological benefits attached to it, but there are risks involved too. This article is to heighten your awareness of those risks.
As you progress, you will build up to a...
05th November 2009
Do you know what your two power movements are? If you can find one upper body power exercise and one lower body power exercise, and then do only two work sets of each exercise per week, than I can guarantee that you’ll have taken a giant step toward...
21st October 2009
In truth, the figure might be nearer to 98% but I don’t want to over dramatise here.
Go into most bodybuilding and weight training forums and discussion groups and check out the exercise routines listed there. You’ll see a whole bunch of silly is...
21st October 2009
If you’re seriously trying to build muscle, there are two critical components you need to know about for maximum success.
1/ You need to set measurable targets in your weight training and
2/ You need to see if you’re on track to hit those target...
21st October 2009
If you’re practising weight training in order to build your body up, it’s vital that you know when you should be training, in order to get the maximum reward for your efforts.
If you’ve ever looked in a bodybuilding forum or discussion group, o...
22nd September 2009
If you’re trying to build muscle, you’ll have to put on bodyweight. This is a fact. Certainly when you start training with weights you can get more toned up, but soon the law of diminishing returns will set in, and to make further progress, you’...
22nd September 2009
I recently published an article called “9 Tips to build muscle fast”. Some if not all of the nine tips needed expanding on to give more useful information, but this wasn’t possible due to lack of space. In this series of articles I’m going to g...
22nd September 2009
Most people overcomplicate when they try and build muscle. The principles in this article are based on over 100 years of research, and in truth not much has changed in that time.
In order to build the maximum muscle in the shortest time, you must;
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14th September 2009
In a previous article I outlined 5 of the 10 most common bodybuilding mistakes, so here are the next 5.
6/ Exercising too long
Try to keep your workouts under the hour. If you’re currently going way over the hour it could be because you’re doing t...
