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Keeping it simple is often best. And on chest day, giving your best effort to a few exercises is often way better than trying to tackle lots of movements, but tiring out before reaching the finish. This workout is as bare-bones as it gets, but that doesn't mean it has to be any worse than an...

By Adam Bisek We all want the magic formula to building muscle, after all, who wants to waste their time in the gym haphazardly moving cast iron. When you’re a newbie to the muscle-building game simply putting in any time under the bar will result in measurable gains in strength and muscle...

Are you under a time crunch or simply don't have the motivation to hit a long workout today? Give this method a shot for an effectively short workout! Everybody goes through training slumps. Sometimes, life just runs you down and you can’t help but be a little tired. You’ve hit that plateau...

Take your workouts to the next level with these 9 workout intensity techniques. From drop sets to rest pause, we cover everything you need to know! Anyone that starts pursuing training with a major commitment to the iron does so to make progress. They want to improve and reach that “next...

Looking for a new muscle-building challenge? This 8-week high-intensity training methodology pushes you to failure, not once but three times, for the ultimate pump. WORKOUT SUMMARY Main Goal Build Muscle Workout Type Split Training Level Advanced Program Duration8 weeks Days Per Week 3 Time Per...

HIT training is unlike any muscle building approach you've ever tried. Workouts are brisk, intense, focusing on moderate volume, training to failure and recovery. WORKOUT SUMMARY Main Goal Build Muscle Workout Type Full Body Training Level Beginner Program Duration6 weeks Days Per Week 3 Time...

This advanced workout routine is a 5-day split - Two Days On, 1 Day Off, Two Days On, 1 Day Off. It is aimed at muscle size, definition and tone. WORKOUT SUMMARY Main Goal Build Muscle Workout Type Split Training Level Advanced Program Duration10 weeks Days Per Week 5 Time Per Workout30-45...

It takes a special kind of mentality in this world to be a leader. It doesn’t come as a surprise that leadership and innovation are rare and prized qualities since much of society is structured to operate around these individuals. For example, most workplaces have a general manager (read...

Many years ago I invented a little quote that expresses my basic philosophy when it comes to how one should approach their training if he/she truly desires to make significant progress: “If you want your muscles to grow, you cannot simply ‘whisper’ at that them – rather, you must SCREAM!” In...

Exercise to Failure for Muscle Growth - Fact or Fiction By Donovan Baldwin What is exercise to failure? Well, most simply, it's doing repetitions, often multiple sets, until you can't do any more. The muscle fails to perform. That's pretty straightforward, but, is it true? Yes and no...

If we had a dollar for every well-intentioned person who’s centered his or her fat-burning efforts around low- to moderate-intensity cardio sessions, we could make Fort Knox our summer retreat. This “I’m trying to lose weight, so I’m just doing cardio” attitude has become widespread, as people...

Erica Schultz / M+F Magazine Forty-two days. That’s the amount of time we’re going to ask you to commit to packing on more muscle to your frame. That’s not a very long time, but by the end of the program, you’ll be begging for mercy. For six weeks, you’ll follow a six-day (or three, if time...

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HYPOTHESIS It is well established that lifting loads around 75% of your 1RM leads to increases in size and strength. More recently it has been shown that lifting much lighter loads (30% 1RM) also leads to significant muscle growth if each set is taken to failure. Metabolic stress is a primary...

HYPOTHESIS The idea of training to failure started officially with Thomas DeLorme, M.D., after WWII. He used a protocol of three sets of 20 repetitions taken to failure. Training to what is called “momentary muscular failure” is still believed by most to be an essential factor in promoting...

QUESTION DO YOU FEEL ONE CAN MAKE IT TO THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF BODYBUILDING WITHOUT HAVING A TRAINING PARTNER? I DESPERATELY WANT TO COMPETE SUCCESSFULLY AND MAKE A NAME FOR MYSELF IN THIS INDUSTRY, BUT MY PARTICULAR JOB FORCES ME TO TRAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WHEN EVERYONE ELSE IS FAST...

The Massive Delt Workout---Dare You To Try It!! Ok guys,here's the next in the series of KILLER WORKOUTS! This one is called the MASSIVE DELT WORKOUT and it lives up to its name.Give it a shot and see if you can stick with it! Lets take a closer look at a technique called Triple Drop...