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Alex Roberts How to Gain Weight the Right Way While there are a "million" articles out there on how to lose weight, and a bunch of tips on how to make that journey easier, I haven't seen many useful pieces on how to optimally gain weight. I know it's hard to believe that someone would want to...

Alex Roberts 5 Shoulder and Chest Press Movements You're Not Doing Getting stuck in a training rut happens to the best of us. We start a new workout plan with specific exercises, specific rep ranges, specific rest times, and a specific amount of days to work out each week. If you are seeing...

Below are 50 tried-and-tested tips for hard-gainers and skinny guys wanting to bulk up (and thus increase muscle hypertrophy and strength). 1. Limit your cardiovascular and aerobic activities. Some cardiovascular exercise will help to maintain your aerobic ability during the bulking phase...

Steve Shaw 6 Reasons Why You Don't Even Lift Spend too much time on the Internet and you'll soon realize one thing... You don't even lift. The critics and peanut gallery can be harsh. Do something for fun and pure enjoyment - It's useless and you don't even lift. Try a new exercise variation...

Andy Yingling Collaborator 12 Tips To Building Massive Arms Meet Jim. Jim is a gym rat that likes to walk around with his racerback tank top, showing off his veiny arms. He looks a lot like a Waving Wacky Tube Man. He exhibits no size, no definition, but trains arms every day. What's his...

The phrase every day is arm day is something that's both satirical, yet holds a grain of truth. The hype behind this phrase is due to the large majority of us who dream daily of having bigger arms and just want to curl until our arms fall off. it's in our DNA. The feeling of curling a weight...

Hitting a plateau in your training sucks. You leave no stone unturned with your diet, you've exhausted every one of your tricks in your training tool bag and you?re more consistent than 24-hour political updates. Yet you still find yourself starring down that pesky plateau. Played around with...

Chris Gains 4 Step Weight Loss Plan That Works for Everybody I started having weight issues right after I finished college when I got my office job. Sitting in front of the computer 10 hours a day, not having enough time or energy to be more active, and eating all the wrong foods got me close to...

Marc Lobliner The Ultimate 3 Day Workout Split - 1500 Reps of Pain! We are always wanting more. This desire is in our DNA. It's what keeps us going. It's our motivation. Wanting more money. Wanting to lose more weight. Wanting to gain more weight. Wanting to lift more weight. Wanting to eat...

Ryan Rodal Gym Gear You May Need: Top 10 Gym Accessories Whether you are a fitness beginner or a seasoned veteran, there are certain gym bag accessories designed to help. Than allow you progress faster, lift more weight, and become a stronger, physical specimen. With so many different tools...

There's two ways to guarantee making your body change, both of which involve tracking. These are of course tracking your calories/macros and tracking your weight in the gym. It's amazing how many seasoned gym trainers don't do this. This is why people become highly susceptible to ongoing...

Andy Yingling Collaborator The Stress-Free Approach To Training In this day in age, information is abundant. Everyone has access to endless and in-depth resources on just about anything they could possibly have an interest in. By spending just a few minutes each day surfing fitness web pages...

Ryan Rodal How to Build Muscle by Increasing the Mind Muscle Connection In the world of bodybuilding the focus always seems to be on common topics such as progressive overload, programming, and optimization. Adding more weight or increasing more reps over time will improve your strength and...

Today's article deals with isolation movements. Now in the grand scheme of things they are not as hard as complex/compound movements, but these small changes will make a major factor in training. Let's keep this going and see if these can help you obtain a better mind muscle connection (MMC) and...

Nick Ludlow My Top 10 Workout Intensifiers for Enhanced Gains Have your workouts and gym progress been subpar lately? If so, when?s the last time you added variation into your routine? If your gains have been lacking and you're wondering what small tweaks you can make to your routine without...

Ryan Rodal 5 Weight Lifting Injuries That Are Far Too Common For many of us, when it comes to lifting and working out injuries can be the name of the game. Whether you are a beginner or someone that has been lifting for decades, there is no doubt that you have faced an injury at some point in...

The 3x10 method you used in high school football can only work for so long. When you're a newbie to the iron, anything pretty much works. You don't have to get complex in your approach. Just lift more weight and do more reps. This is fine, until it doesn't work anymore. As your training...

Andy Yingling Collaborator Top 10 Gym Myths and Misconceptions That Never Die You've probably hear each of these fitness and nutrition myths and misconceptions a thousand times. They've been around since the beginning of time - or at least the beginning of the bodybuilding era. Each of these...

Ryan Rodal The 5 Best (Non-Floor Crunch) Ab Exercises Let's face it. The one body part that every single guy wants to improve appearance-wise is the abdominal muscles. If you were to take a survey on what body part women find most attractive, chances are it would be those abdominal muscles...

There’s a reason that experts tell you to focus on the quick wins when you aim to lose weight, and that’s because for many, the rate at which we can drop those unwanted pounds will slow and stall. While this is a natural bodily response to lowering our calorie intake, it can also minimize our...