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Let’s get straight to the point. To gain muscle and strength you have to have a plan. That plan must include two important ingredients – because without them, your progress in the gym won’t exist. You must utilize the big, multi-joint compound movements. These are the exercises that activate...

High intensity exercise has quickly become a growing trend within the fitness community because it allows for more work to be performed in a shorter period of time and it helps the athlete achieve higher levels of anaerobic fitness. As our lives become busier, extended workouts or high volume...

Building muscle is not easy even if you have all the elements needed like good nutrition, essential bodybuilding supplements and exercise equipment. It is not rocket science either but a lot of simple things can go wrong. The common mistakes bodybuilders make can be as simple as not taking time...

Doing a cardio finisher at the end of your strength training routine is great for fat loss and mental toughness because your energy stores are low (glycogen) and you’ll be training fatigued. But when you switch your emphasis to hypertrophy finishers to bring up a lagging body part, you’ll get...

HIT VS VOLUME. Which style of working out is the better approach for bodybuilding? It’s hard to discredit either style of weight training because there have been countless examples of people who have built incredible physiques using both. So my stance on it is pretty simple; I’m partial to HIT...

By now you've probably heard about intensity-boosting techniques like dropsets, rest-pause, and supersets. You know they can be beneficial for increasing muscle. But if you're relatively new to the iron game, you'll need to know when to add them into your workout and which equipment will do the...

One of the biggest misconceptions when it comes to hypertrophy (the scientific term for muscle growth) is that the only factor in building bigger muscles is lifting heavier weights—and that one automatically leads to the other. This myth has been perpetuated for decades by the bodybuilding and...

High-intensity interval training (HIIT) is a popular form of exercise that alternates short periods of intense exercise with recovery periods. It’s especially prevalent among people taking studio classes and participating in on-demand workouts, but HIIT can also be performed solo at the gym or...

There’s a reason high-intensity interval training (HIIT) was named the number 1 fitness trend for 2018: It works. Fitness newbies and workout veterans alike continue turning to these quick, intense sessions as an effective, time-efficient means to lose weight — and keep it off. For example...

Researchers have been debating this question for decades: When it comes to fat loss, are people better off doing HIIT or traditional cardio? There’s little doubt exercise is great for helping people lose and maintain their weight. “The most successful weight-loss maintainers — those who lose...

It’s been a while since high-intensity interval training (HIIT) stormed onto the fitness scene and began its dogged takeover of the cardio universe. One study at a time, HIIT knocked steady-state cardio off its long-held throne, becoming the most relied-upon method for burning unwanted body fat...

Fasted Cardio Eats Muscle Plus 6 More Fat Loss Mistakes by Christian Thibaudeau | 10/14/16 Here's what you need to know... Most people attempting to lose fat will use diet and exercise strategies that make it impossible to preserve muscle. Fasted cardio works, but only if you're on...

Per Bernal Based off my popular LIIFT4 program on Beachbody OnDemand, this efficient and effective upper-body circuit workout combines old-school lifting 101 with the science of high-intensity interval training (HIIT). A study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning found that...

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jay-cutler-squat.jpg Imagine it’s 1979 and you want to do pullups. Already hanging from the bar is Roy Callendar, third in the previous year’s Mr. Olympia. You’d better hope he lets you work in, because he’s not moving on for another hour or so. And 25 sets at the pullup bar are just the...

Per Bernal Y3T has become synonymous with adjectives pertaining to extreme intensity. “Hell week” is another perfect description of Y3T (Yoda 3 Training), especially when we’re talking about Week 3, which has gained an infamous reputation because of the high-rep brutality deployed for total...

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...