The most common failure point in many powerlifting exercises is the grip. The forearms are a small and skinny muscle group, and the hands are typically very weak when compared to other potential failure points in the body. Building up your forearm and grip strength is a key to performing better in both powerlifting competition as well as in your normal lifts. Improving the amount of weight you can move will allow you to hold more weight when deadlifting, and control more weight when bench pressing. Additionally, it will provide you with greater support when you’re using exercises to target those ancillary body parts which support the lifts such as the deadlift. Rowing, lat pulldowns, and other movements become more effective when grip strength improves. Here are a few tips for increasing your grip ...

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The hamstrings are a body part which is ignored by many bodybuilders, and underdeveloped in most of them. Even some athletes with some bulging thighs will often sport hamstrings that honestly look as if they have never trained them a day in their life. Hamstrings are a muscle group which do not respond all that well to heavy weight, as they are small and cannot grow to the new dimensions we see with other body parts. The trick to training hamstrings is to fill them with as much nutrient-rich blood as possible. Here is a routine which does just that. Lying leg curls Start your leg biceps workout with four sets of this tried and true movement. Complete four sets of 10 to 12 repetitions. Don’t worry about reducing any weight – yet. Seated leg curls Provided ...

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21st Century bodybuilding has become a complicated business. It seems that to get anywhere in this game nowadays, you’ve got to have PHD level knowledge on everything from nutrition to kinesiology, from chemistry to, dare I say it, psychology. We’re constantly being bombarded with state of the art research about everything from metabolic typing to visualization, from chemical sub-structures to ECG graph printouts. It’s enough to make an old school iron pumper growl in disgust. Fortunately for the several million of us who would like to keep things simple, however, there is one muscle building truism that will never change, no matter how far our sport meanders into technical triviality: to build huge and freaky muscle mass you’ve got to haul heavy poundage. Go Heavy or Go Home The principle of progressive resistance is the cornerstone of the sport of bodybuilding, and for good ...

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