April 11
P90X and Muscle Confusion: The Truth
You may not be doing P90X, but plenty of your schmuck friends are. Let them read this and save them from mediocrity.
April 10
The 185 Rep Squat Workout
Climb out of that training rut and challenge your muscles and mental fortitude with these old-school squat workouts.
April 2
8 x 2 and Hybrid Density Training
When just slapping extra weight on the bar fails, you need to look at effective ways to increase volume or density.
March 18
10 Secrets to Building Mass
Ten secrets, eight exercises, and one sweet three-day-a-week program to help you pile on muscle weight fast.
March 17
Negatives: You're Doing Them Wrong
Lowering a weight slowly is a “garbage” eccentric. The key is to lower a weight that's close to maximum under control.
March 13
You Don't Know How To Breathe
Focusing on proper breathing can enhance your training and improve strength in a whole lot of unexpected ways.
March 10
How I Finally Got Muscle to Grow - Phase 3
Enter the Intensity Phase. Supersets, drop sets, slow tempos, partial reps, it's all here! Bring a puke bucket.
March 6
Micro-Mod Sets For Mass
If you slightly change your grip or your stance on every rep or two, you recruit a far greater number of motor units.
February 28
Bodybuilder Big, Powerlifter Strong
How to use a blend of heavy and moderate loads for specific TUTs to trigger both sarcoplasmic and myofibrillar hypertrophy.
February 27
Pull the Hypertrophy Trigger
Wild, neuro-science based methods to recruit and fatigue the maximum number of motor units with each exercise.
February 25
The Biggest Training Lie
Most trainers insist that you change your program every 4 weeks. This is complete and utter BS.
February 24
How I Finally Got Muscle to Grow - Phase 2
It takes more than heavy weights to hypertrophy muscle. Add an insane volume phase if you want insane amounts of muscle.
February 18
Big. Scary. Delts.
If you want to grow your delts, you've got to train them often, but you've also got to be smart about it. Here’s how.
February 10
How I Finally Got Muscle to Grow - Phase 1
I love lifting heavy, but you need a lot more than that to develop the muscular hypertrophy of a bodybuilder.
February 6
High-Performance, No BS Correctives
Perform better with corrective work focusing on the five basic human movements, tonic and phasic muscles, and regressions.
January 27
High Pull Blitz
Gain 10 pounds of muscle by doing just one full body exercise? It can work, if you've got the guts to try it.
January 25
Micro-PA Activates Hypertrophy
Stimulate muscle growth by activating mTOR, which is the master enzyme responsible for muscle protein synthesis.
January 22
3 Things You Need to Unlearn
Body fat percentage, full body workouts, somatotypes. Are your ideas about these things holding back your progress?
January 16
Does Lifting Boost Testosterone?
Does manipulating your hormone levels through exercise actually lead to more muscle? Or is that Broscience 101?