Your first bodybuilding contest is just a month away! You’ve been dieting, training, sleeping, supplementing, and everything else necessary to bring your body in at an extremely low body fat level, without sacrificing any muscle. While your body fat has been getting lower, and your muscles and veins have been emerging all over the body, you’ve noticed your abdominals just aren’t coming out the way you’d prefer. You may subscribe to the newsletter of thought which says abdominals shouldn’t be trained year-round. If you suffer from a wider midsection due to hip structure or if you use insulin or growth hormone, then this is a very valid training protocol. You would only want to hit the midsection immediately before a show so thick sheets of muscle do not grow all year, throwing off your symmetry. ...

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Q: Whole body training - is it a good idea for people trying to build size? Or is it just a never-do kind of thing for someone experienced and beyond “beginner”? A: Well, you can do full body workouts, provided you keep them fast, heavy and with little rest in between. It’s a good way to train for a contest closer to the day. But remember, the more body parts you train in one session (ie- a full body workout) you’ll have to cut down the number of overall sets and exercises you do per body part. That is where things can hurt progress, because you don’t get the diversity in a single body part workout - you can’t do the squats, leg press, hack squats, leg extensions, etc.. in a single workout. However, you may want to consider ...

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