To gain maximal muscle, you need to stick to the basics. You only need one or two basic movements per bodypart. The less movements you can do to get the job done, the better. Setting Up a Program Choosing a Training Split Choose a training schedule based upon your training schedule. A typical schedule...
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Coming from a Martial Arts background, conditioning almost always overtook all of my other goals. Forget about fat loss if you can’t even go a few rounds without puking. Muscle mass and all that will come with the training you need to do to prepare your body in sport. The true mark of an...
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Last semester, I had two big group papers to do, and in both the groups I was the editor. As editor and leader of a group, you have a lot of responsibilities including making sure everyone is meeting their deadlines, and breaking up bitch fights (I was the only guy in both groups). But...
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Every sport needs to be supplemented with resistance training. If you’re on this site, you know this to be a fact. However training for sport is much different than bodybuilding training. Training for Sport: • Use large, compound lifts • Train fast, resting little between each set • Train every muscle group in each...
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I trained a few guys over the winter break. Not one of them came back after the workout I gave them. They made great promises, and I even agreed on a price with one of them, but still they never came back. I’m not the type of person to hunt people down. If you...
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I have always been limited to the training equipment available to me. As such, I have learned to train with very limited equipment, which I find to be an asset to me when I am traveling. You may know what time to go to your gym to beat the crowd, but what if you...
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There is no such thing as the perfect training program. The day you realize this, you will make the most improvements in your training goals. Reasons why there is no perfect routine: • The body adapts after staying with the same routine • In order to prevent adaptation, you need to constantly switch up...
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When I first began training, it’s safe to say that I had no clue what I was doing. Like most trainees, I picked up a bodybuilding magazine and copied the routines as best as I could. But a lack of knowledge is what made me knowledgeable. I spent hours on various websites, taking notes...
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Time interval training works really well if you have one exercise that you are performing, followed by a rest interval. Hence, something like Taku’s Interval training would work just fine. Taku’s Interval Training is basically a 12-week training program taking advantage of time and rest intervals and modifying them progressively over time. Here is...
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