Bodybuilders are always looking for way to make their workouts harder. After all, that’s the only way to keep the growth coming. To achieve the goal, bodybuilders look for ways to make individual exercises tougher, particularly during those paths of the movement when added resistance would be useful for growth. Here are a few tips for increasing the workload you are using in the gym. Don’t use these on every set of every workout, or you will find yourself burnt out very quickly. However, you will find great success by using these techniques sparingly in your training. Bands Rubber bands are excellent ways to deliver an exponentially increasing workload to the muscle group being trained during each repetition. Essentially, it is the same resistance as if a person was pulling on the weight harder and harder as ...

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Building body mass can be very easy as long as you are equipped with the right techniques to building body mass. However if you are not aware of this techniques you could waste a lot of time in the gym without being able to realize your objective. We all want to transform our bodies in one way or another so that we get a perfect body physique. Having a wonderful body is really essential because it can help boost your confidence and feelings of self worth. Confidence is really important if you want to win your dream girl because ladies are victims of confident guys. And this goes without saying if you boost your self esteem and confidence you will never live a lonely life again. Body building is also important because it instills self-discipline in you. This is because without ...

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Q: Someone told me that you don’t have to do cardio - that you can just do your workouts fast - especially if they are powerlifing workouts. Is this true? A: I do fast, compound movements for workouts and I shed pounds rapidly. That is the truth and gospel according to me. Now, having said that, I’m not sure that that kind of training is a panacea for all things. In fact, nothing burns fat like real cardio. However, I think what you’re really talking about is rapid training on a regular or semi-regular basis. That is to say, doing pushes, presses, rows and extensions rapidly through a set, then moving to the next exercise station. You can accomplish this by doing 3 x 20 reps in total for workouts. The cool thing about training like this is that ...

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Still, most people see an acronym and either run, or think, “Here we go with an elementary school lesson!” Automatically, it seems some psychobabble term that a therapist thought of to get you to take steps toward cleaner living. (We all know bodybuilders are not purveyors of cleaner living!) But acronyms are a great way to enact important steps. They may seem sophomoric in their conception, but in fact, they are really great ways to remember important steps in some more important big picture formula. Typically, skipping steps means certain failure in terms of formula, since the formula automatically changes once something alters its path. An acronym helps you to remember each step and take it. In this case, follow each step and you will engage in smart training practices. Okay, so what’s S.M.A.R.T. stand for? Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, ...

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We all tend to find comfortable grooves in life. We wake up in the morning, and fall into our regular groove of brushing our teeth and grabbing a protein shake before running out the door to work. When mealtime arrives, we’re often on auto-pilot. We throw a chicken breast on the Foreman grill, and prep our carbs at the same time. After washing it down with a Diet Dr. Pepper or some Crystal Lite, we get back to work in anticipation of our journey to the gym that evening. When the time comes for training, it’s often the same way. We train at the same time each day, and we know what to expect. Our machines will be there for us. We’ll use about the same weight each time, save for small incremental increases. ...

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People are pretty good at seeing through little white lies told in conversation. You know when somebody is blowing smoke, as it’s not hard to read their body language or see simple holes in the logic they’re trying to sell you. If your training partner tells you that he squats 1000 and weighs 175, you’re probably going to know he’s lying. However, if one of the biggest guys in the gym tells you that reverse-grip underhanded super-slow wrist curls (or some other silly exercise) is the secret to his mass, you’ll at least consider what he’s saying to be a possibility. Initially, the details will be so complex you may not understand it. Then, you’ll probably want to believe him because, well, he is the biggest guy in the gym. Then, one of his friends may ...

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In the business world, you’re always either growing or dying. There is no sitting still. Your firm is always either grabbing a larger market share or growing consumer value, or it is losing market share to competitors and losing customer value. However small the increments, there is always either a loss or gain cycle occurring – there is no standing still. Likewise, when it comes to bodybuilding, the same motto holds true. You are always either getting better, or worse. Improving or regressing, Growing or shrinking, Bodybuilding requires separate classifications for measuring progress or lack thereof. Here are some categories and rubrics, which can be used to measure the level of hypertrophy vs. atrophy occurring at any given time for a bodybuilder. Muscle Mass Are you gaining or losing muscle mass? If you are steadily increasing lean ...

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Word around the gym is that you and Mr. Smith have been getting awfully cozy lately. You visit him on leg day when you do squats. Then we see you hanging out with him on chest day for incline bench presses. Someone even said they saw you with him on shoulder day while you were completing military presses. I’ve spoken with the gym owner, and he agrees. You need to spend some time apart. You are seriously hampering your own personal development by spending so much time with Mr. Smith. Can you do that? Can you just walk away and train on your own without him? Okay, in case you haven’t caught on yet, Mr. Smith isn’t some suit-wearing, sunglasses-sporting agent from a movie. And he’s not your training partner or ...

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For advanced bodybuilders in today’s age of “mass at all costs” attitude and prevalence of insulin, growth hormone, and more, the waistline is the most dangerous area of the body. Look at any professional bodybuilding stage – Three quarters of the men onstage are facing the battle of the bulge when it comes to the waistline. Even at 3% body fat, they still possess a bulging belly. Why? A large waistline is very often the byproduct of the heavy food, training, and steroid regimens required to compete at 220, 240, or 250+ pounds. It’s inevitable that the waistline will grow as the arms, legs, chest, back, and shoulders grow. A major key to bodybuilding success, then, is to minimize the negative appearance of a large waistline. For advanced competitive bodybuilders, abdominal training should be done minimally throughout the ...

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A lot of people come into the business of wanting to gain more muscles and leave their patience outside the door. The best you can get with wanting to gain more muscles fast is that the results you get will not last in the long-term. A lot of people have resulted to using steroids to be able to acquire muscles faster, in the short term some do manage to alter their appearances and develop a perfect muscular body. In the long term however especially when they are beginning to age their appearances alter and the first thing they lose is there body posture coupled with other things which make them look like a bad horror movie. For you to be able to look like a real weight trainer both in the short term and in the long term you need to incorporate ...

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