If you asked a hundred bodybuilders what their top five chest movements would be, the answers probably wouldn’t vary all that much. Sure, they would be in different order, but you can rest assured the top five would likely be sprinkled with incline and flat dumbbell and barbell presses, along with dips and cable crossovers. You can also rest assured that machine flyes probably wouldn’t even make the top ten list of most useful chest exercises. Machine Flyes are seldom mentioned because they aren’t all that exciting of an exercise. They don’t build mass, so they’re not particularly popular with young bodybuilders. Their poundage's are meaningless, so they aren’t all that interesting to powerlifters. They are often seen as an exercise which is completed by beginners on their home bench set with the butterfly attachments, or one of the nautilus machines at the gym frequented by the elderly trainers while the real bodybuilders crowd the free weight area. Face it: machine flyes get no respect!

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Q: Some guys at the gym were doing what they called a rapid change workout program, where you focus on mass one week and on fat loss the next. Are you guys familiar with this and, if so, is it any good?

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Q: What are some good exercises to add size to my shoulders that don’t tear them out in back? I just feel like military press is beginning to hurt my shoulders. Cable work doesn’t, but I’m not sure it’s getting the job done. Laterals raises are another that seems not to irritate them. I think it’s just when my delts are pulled slightly behind my ears. What can I do?

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Q: Okay, I'm confused about cardio workouts and how to use them to achieve fat loss, but to not do them to excess so that I lose a ton of muscle. So should I do cardio before or after workouts? And should I do them only a certain amount of time or a certain number of sessions per week? What's right?

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Q: Are commercial breakfast cereals a good choice for a bodybuilder or should I be making my own version?

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Arms and the chest are two relative body parts which receive observable changes in the body. They are therefore the most exercised and have the most vigorous exercises which produce impact results. Some of these exercises are very difficult and one is prone to possible harmful effects emanating from the same.

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Q: I have been doing the gainer's routine of 6 days a week, one body part a day. I do the following:

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It’s been long buried for decades, seen only in gyms from time to time. You’ll see it tossed in with the clutter near the pins, various handles and bars, and ropes. It is the Arm Blaster. In the past, this piece of bent metal with a single strap was used by the top bodybuilders worldwide. Yet today, we rarely see it in the gym and never see it worn by our favorite bodybuilders in the pages of muscle magazines. What is the Arm Blaster? What purpose does it serve? Why isn’t it used anymore? Let’s learn more!

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With the current situation in the economy where the price of everything is rising almost in the blink of an eye, everyone is looking for a way of minimizing their spending and saving as much as they can. If you can’t get a discount at the gym, then you might as well get your money’s worth of lean, well defined muscles! Instead of having to hit the gym for more months without any visible change, you can simply follow these few tips and get the same results in less time.

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Body building was none existent before the late 19th Century. It took one man persistent passion and boldness to brake free from a dormant tradition, to pioneer what has today become a billion dollar industry. When bodily displays were considered immoral and not in good faith, a bold man in Prussia, Germany, decided to develop his muscles and display them with pride.

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