Muscle-Building
The 7 Most Intense Bodybuilding Methods
Training intensity means different things to different people. On the one hand, intensity can refer to the weight you are lifting and its relationship to your…
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Bodybuilding
Best Natural Bodybuilders – 21 Natty Lifters You Need To Know About
If you made a list of the best and most popular bodybuilders in the world, chances are none of them would be natural athletes. Furthermore, things…
Muscle-Building
What Should I Do If One Arm is Bigger Than The Other?
If you’re taking precision measurements of your body—to track fat composition and muscle mass—you may notice that one side of your body develops faster than the…
Arnold Classic
2021 Arnold Classic Men’s Open Bodybuilding Prediction and Analysis
The 2021 Arnold Classic will take place on September 25th, 2021. It’s safe to say that this year, the Arnold Classic Men’s Open lineup is stacked. This…
Muscle
How To Drink Alcohol Without Losing Muscle and Gaining Fat
Let’s get straight to the point. The fountain of youth is overrated. Learning how to drink alcohol without gaining fat and losing muscle is the real…
OP-ED
How to Squat and Build Better Legs with Bad Knees
If you’ve been training hard for any length of time almost anyone reading this right now can relate to sore knees. You know that feeling you…
OP-ED
How to Structure Your Own Workouts
Usually there are two types of people in the world: those who rely on others to figure things out and those who are true and true…
Muscle-Building
Building Muscle After 40: A Comprehensive Guide to Maximizing Muscle Gains Through Training
Over 40 and want to build more mass? Think that you’re past packing on new muscle? Are your joints a bit sore and battered from all…
OP-ED
The 9 Best Joint-Friendly Bodybuilding Training Methods
I’ve been lifting weights for about 40 years, ever since I bought my first Weider blue vinyl dumbbell set. During that time, I’ve trained as a…
Body Mechanics
Sets vs. Reps: Everything You Need to Know
Resistance training isn’t only about building muscle—in reality, it improves every aspect of your fitness, including strength, explosive power, cardiovascular endurance, and flexibility. People who lift weights…
Powerlifting
Top 3 Beginner Powerlifting Programs
As a beginner, you have an almost infinite number of options when it comes to workout programs. While you could pay someone to design a custom…
Bodybuilding
HGH Bubble Gut: Abdominal Distension in Bodybuilders
Dave “Jumbo” Palumbo was a bodybuilder who really lived up to his name. Palumbo competed at a bodyweight of close to 300 pounds – ripped –…
OP-ED
Alternatives to the Must-Do Exercises
Squats, bench presses, deadlifts, and many more of the big, compound exercises are on everyone’s to-do list of required exercises. If muscle and strength is on…
OP-ED
The Future of Training: It Isn’t What You Think
For the vast majority of the general public the future of training is largely dictated by the fitness industry. The massive, unstoppable marketing machine that is…
OP-ED
Squatting Every Day: Is it Dangerous, Or a Game-Changing Workout Strategy?
Squatting is one of the two most efficient lower body movements that you can perform to build serious leg strength. (The other, in case you’re wondering,…
Cutting
Can You Get Lean After 40?
If fifty is the new forty then is forty the new thirty? If that’s all true then all of us forty and over must be in…
OP-ED
Get Back to Old School Training Without the Tech
Fitness trackers, training apps, newly engineered foods, and creepy mirrors that talk back. One thing is certain, the fitness industry is accelerating its evolution toward more…
OP-ED
How To Track Your Progress Like a Pro
Keeping a track of your progress is what separates the men from the boys, pros from the rookies, and winners from the losers. You’ll never find…
OP-ED
How Many Exercises Per Workout Should I Do?
Ask a bodybuilder how many exercises you should do per workout, and they’ll probably tell you it’s somewhere between 4-8. In contrast, an Olympic lifter or…