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The second phase of a three-month plan designed for those who want to get bigger and have the power and strength to back it up. “Gros, Cut, Fort!” That’s what coaches Poliquin and Benoit always used to say before their workouts. It’s Frenglish (French and English) for “big, cut, and strong.” I...

The first installment of a three-part series that'll turn you into a thick, dense, and rugged beast in three short months. Recently, I said that I hated writing articles giving out specific programs. I feel that as a coach it’s a much better approach to explain concepts and techniques, rather...

Phase 1 18 of our training program was all about jacking up your nervous system: improving your capacity to recruit the highly trainable high threshold motor units (HTMUs), and inhibiting the protective mechanisms that prevent you from becoming a true beast. In this second phase, we’ll take...

Phase 1 – Jacking You Up The goal of this first phase is to prime your body for the subsequent training phases. Basically, we want to jack up your nervous system efficiency so that you’ll be much better at recruiting the all-important high-threshold motor units (HTMU’s), sometimes known as the...

Walk into any gym, and you’ll undoubtedly see two types of training being performed isotonic exercises and isometric exercises. Isotonic training include classic lifts that are more commonly performed, with a concentric or “lifting” phase, and an eccentric or “lowering” phase to every rep. For...

GET YOKED: BUILD A THICK NECK Sure, building your big muscle groups will make you bigger overall. But it takes a long time to get there. By contrast, if you build a thick neck, it'll quickly change your whole look. The same is true for traps and forearms. These are the "power look" muscles. When...

GET YOKED: BUILD A THICK NECK Sure, building your big muscle groups will make you bigger overall. But it takes a long time to get there. By contrast, if you build a thick neck, it'll quickly change your whole look. The same is true for traps and forearms. These are the "power look" muscles. When...

Hey, if Arnold Schwarzenegger does something I want to know about it! That is why I want to know about Isometrics! Isometric workouts were part of the reason for the Austrian Oaks success! Isometric Exercise, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bodybuilding By Frank Sherrill What do Isometric...

When a muscle activation techniques practitioner contacted me in 2014, promoting his isometric training device, I was skeptical. Before I finish this story, let me backtrack. Thinking about the way we train, I notice something: 95% of the strength and conditioning world spends 95% of their time...

Isometric Exercise, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bodybuilding By Frank Sherrill What do Isometric Exercise, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bodybuilding all have in common? You may be surprised to learn that Isometrics has been used in bodybuilding workout routines since it was first discovered. Arnold...