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The Luke Sauder Calf Routine Perhaps you should stop watching the lithe, supple bodies of young women floating along the ice as their tiny skirts are buoyed upwards by gentle drafts, their budding young breasts delineated by? Oh, sorry. I digress. My point is, working calves involves all the...

WORKOUT TEMPO: DON'T MAKE THIS EGO MISTAKE It’s amazing how adding even a couple extra seconds to your lift dramatically changes how it feels. Often it makes a lift much harder. The weights you’re used to slapping on are fine for a simple up and down squat. But add a pause, or more control on...

The key to building muscle while staying healthy is to hammer the muscles while sparing the joints. Uninjured joints are a major key to consistency. There's no bigger deterrent of long-term progress than being on the sidelines with chronic joint pain. It comes down to two simple principles...

One Advanced Training Method, Four Great Benefits “Accentuated eccentrics” is coachy way of saying to focus on the lowering phase of a rep to trigger certain adaptations. Including tempo work that emphasizes a slow and controlled eccentric early in a program is a great way to improve...

Does rep tempo have an effect on your gains? If so, which is better, fast tempo or slow tempo? Read this article to find out everything about rep tempo! Let’s say you attend the gym on a regular basis. You have progressive overload, volume, frequency, intensity, exercise selection/order, and...

When Muscle & Fitness interviewed Paul Bullion ahead the much-anticipated Season 2 of Netflix’s “The Witcher,” the buff-Brit credited his long-time friend and personal trainer, Leanne Marshall. for providing valuable coaching in getting ripped and ready for the epic fantasy TV show. So...

Building a solid base of strength and power throughout the entire body has myriad benefits for the bodybuilder, athlete and even casual fitness enthusiast. The ability to handle heavier weights, especially in the compound lifts, will eventually translate into increased muscle mass, enhanced...

When you first started doing an exercise, I'll bet you went through all the performance pointers like flash cards in your head to ensure you were doing the movement correctly. Hopefully, over time, the movement became second nature so you didn't have to think about it. That freed up your mind to...

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QUESTION ARE BARBELL SQUATS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR BUILDING REALLY HUGE QUADS? ANSWER Without a doubt—the barbell squat is an awesome, basic exercise for igniting mass and strength gains in the quads. Some of the biggest thighs ever seen in the world of bodybuilding (think of Platz...

Per Bernal If you are reading this now, I hope you have already read Part 1 of this series and successfully absorbed/processed all the information presented. In Part 2 we will simply be building on the foundation program (Weeks 12 to 9) so that progress is continuous and progressive. The goal...

MMA INTERVAL TRAINING TIPS & TECHNIQUES If you’ve been working out for any length of time,as I have been, it’s a safe bet that you’ve used interval training as a part of your conditioning and/or overall fitness regimen ans rightly so at times,if done properly and continually changed up to meet...

Going to start a log on here of my lifting and extras that I do at the gym on a daily basis. Unfortunately I left my notebook in the car and really don't want to walk 4 blocks to go and get it so I will add stuff in tonight. So I do a lot of rest pause work with pretty slow negatives with a...