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And how anyone can compete in powerlifting. Every now and then we alter our training programs or approaches to avoid stalling and plateauing as our bodies get used to the current training. Sometimes new programs are designed to improve a specific goal such as conditioning, fat loss or strength...

Andy Yingling Collaborator Maintaining Bodybuilding Motivation: Find Your Inspiration and Gain In the ever-growing world of bodybuilding, inspiration and motivation are certainly key aspects. But they are often the things that are hard to maintain. I see it time after time in the gym. There's...

Alex Roberts Best Way to Build Muscle? Here Are 3 Rock Solid Strategies In the pursuit of building massive amounts of muscle and punishing power, we've have all witnessed (or maybe even been that guy ourselves) someone always seems to be wanting to put on some size. Month after month, this...

Alex Roberts How to Gain Muscle Mass: 5 Must-Have Training Principles No, this isn't another one of those lists that has a catchy title and after skimming through you chalk it up to another bit of your precious time wasted. These five principles are the nuts and bolts that your training should...

Alex Roberts Reach Your Fitness Goals Using These 3 Tips When it comes to training and dieting, there are a variety of components that come into play when seeking optimal body composition and strength. Your training frequency. Your training style. Your macronutrient (fats, carbs, and proteins)...

Alex Roberts Three Ways to Ruin Your Muscle Gains It's a whole new year to get bigger, stronger, leaner, and healthier than ever before. I love the prospect of starting training with a clean slate and new goals in training to accomplish. There is something to be said about the saying goodbye to...

Alex Roberts Alex Roberts The New Muscle Blueprint: The Muscle Building Workout You Need! Presidential elections, astrophysics, explaining the Kardashian's success. All are complicated matters. In the modern world simplicity is lost and the complex reigns supreme. We do it to ourselves, really...

Alex Roberts Building Muscle: 10 Solutions to Help Fix Your Workouts Are you making the kinds of gains you want? Are you expecting more from your training? Do you feel like you could be doing more to improve? Maybe your workout is broken. You might need to assess a few things before stepping...

Steve Shaw The Body Part Split is Not Dead - Get Over It Body part splits are dead! That's the drumbeat being hammered out around lifting sites across the Internet. These "bro splits" are only good for the hardcore chemically enhanced, or those of us with way too much time on their hands. I'm...

A common question from novice lifters is ?how many times should I train a muscle group per week?? Many people are under the impression that if they don't give a muscle 168 hours to recover, it will get a bad case of over-training syndrome. It will begin to fall off of their body striation by...

Alex Roberts The ABCs of Building a Rock Solid Training Program There are more than a few options out there to choose from when it comes to training programs and methodologies. You can hop onto the internet and find dozens of plug and play programs that are sound and can produce great results...

Jeremy Gray Bodybuilding Dilemma - More Weight or More Reps? The debate over lifting more weight or more reps is something searched thousands of times per month. People are looking for the magical answers to these questions when there isn't one. Without consistent training, it doesn't matter if...

Have you found it yet? You know the training rulebook on how to effectively gain muscle mass? You haven't found it either? That's because there isn't one. Sure, you can consider the latest interwebz article or manifesto as fact because it came from some online fitness guru that gave it away for...

Marc Lobliner Too Much Exercise - Media Attacks Fitness, Time to Fight Back! "Exercise is bad for the gut, and is only one of the many dangers of overtraining." This sentiment was recently plastered over the news sites. Even the right-wing Drudge Report carried this story launched by The...

Have you ever been stopped in the gym and asked to flex your calves? No? I'll predict it's because of two possible reasons: You're calves suck (that's not a knock, just the cold, hard truth) or people just don't care about calf training. Whichever one it is, one thing is true: you wouldn't be...

Andy Yingling Collaborator The Benefits of Weight Training: Why Pumping Iron is for Everyone Resistance training is often ignored by individuals interested in losing weight and "toning up". They have an unhealthy sense of self-worth, and view these areas as eyesores. Resistance training...

When bodybuilding coach and natural strength athlete Jeff Nippard isn’t in the gym, he’s usually taking a deep dive to discover the best, most evidence-backed way to workout. Last year, Nippard looked at social media’s most popular bodybuilding influencer, Sam Sulek, to provide what he says is...

Steve Shaw 4 Great Chest Workouts for Improved Mass and Strength I must admit... My chest genetics suck. I wasn't blessed with Arnold Schwarzenegger, shelf-like pecs. I've had to work hard over the last 30 years (yes, I am that old) to build up an appreciable amount of chest size. If you're...

Alex Roberts 11 Feats of Strength That Every Lifter Should Accomplish Other than nutrition the biggest obstacles that keeps seasoned gym rats from accomplishing their fitness and physique goals are gaps in strength and lack of balance in their training. It has been stated by multiple top...

The principle behind dropping unwanted body fat is simple but as most of us find out, the process is anything but easy. Losing weight and dropping fat are not always the same thing, and figuring out the best methods for battling the bulge can be met with mixed messages. Fortunately, Juan Leija...