You know the type. The guy who has gone to the gym every other day for the past 2 years, yet he still looks the same as he did a year ago. He has been doing sit-ups and crunches every time that he has worked out, yet he still can’t see his abs any more [...]
There seems to be some controversy about if you should lift till failure during every set. Some people say that you always have to lift until you can’t push out another rep, while others say that it is not necessary to go to failure every set in order to gain muscle. So who is right? [...]
It seems like everyone has a different idea of form when it comes to lifting, but who is right? The strictness of form can range from just getting the weight up any way possible to super strict form where you can’t move hardly any other part of your body. My approach to form is termed [...]
This is sort of an extension to the article I recently wrote about performing pyramids. As I said in that post, many people tend to perform sets without really knowing why they are doing what they are doing or without a clear goal in mind. When you are lifting weights, your goal should always and [...]
Pyramids… A beginner way of lifting that just doesn’t part from some people. I still see people who go to the gym with their friends, keep on stacking weight set after set, get completely fatigued, and feel a great sense of accomplishment when in reality, they hardly accomplished anything. First, let’s clarify what I mean [...]
A lot of people start with some sort of a “beginner” workout routine when they first start to lift weights. This sort of workout could be anything from doing a full body workout everyday to only doing one muscle group everyday. Whatever it is, most of the time the workout has the person doing around [...]
When we try to build more muscle mass or get stronger, we tend to only focus on the lifting and hopefully the nutrition aspects. However, the aerobic portion is important as well, and it often gets left behind when we plan our workouts. Why is the aerobic, or our VO2 Max, important? Well it all [...]
Can lowering your training frequency actually make you get more muscle mass faster? Think it can’t? Then read on… Everywhere you look online, you’ll see some guy spouting our how “You have to go to totally burn your muscles out!” or “In order to gain mass, you need to train with the highest intensity until [...]
Don’t get me wrong, I definitely do high frequency workouts for many weeks every once in a while. However, there is one part of these type of routines that you need to watch out for. I’m not talking about the usual muscle fatigue that should already be watched out for. If you are still incredibly sore by [...]
When you think of caffine, do you think “fat loss supplement”? Well you should. You see, the truth is that many of today’s fat loss pills are just caffine stuffed with many other powerful looking ingredients. The supplement companies definately wouldn’t want you to know that though! If you knew that, then you could just [...]
