If you look around in any gym in America, you’ll see a few things. You’ll always see average-looking people moving average weights. You’ll sometimes see average people moving heavy weights. But there is one thing you’ll very rarely see. You’ll almost never see a very highly muscled man moving average weights. You don’t have to be big to be strong, but it’s almost never that you’ll see a big guy who isn’t strong. When it comes to biceps training, this maxim is true – to an extent. You’ll see lots of average bodybuilders using average weights, and they’ll have average arms. And you’ll see some men with very average arms moving very heavy weights – often using a great deal of swing to move the weight from start to finish in the repetition. ...

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Q: My question is about “sets to failure” - my progress has been waning lately and I’m just not getting enough growth out of workouts that have gotten progressively heavier. The only thing I can pinpoint is that I do sets to failure too often. How often should you train to failure, and how many sets? A: There are two different kinds of failure: Absolute failure and positive failure. Positive failure is of benefit and absolute failure is not. Just because you have a few extra sets in you, doesn’t mean you should always do them. That is a good rule of thumb. Only use that technique sparingly - particularly if you are continually striving to go up in weight for strength. Stopping a rep or two before failure is fine - it’s what built most legendary bodybuilders’ bodies. ...

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Dear Friend and Fellow Iron Warrior, Back in the mid 1970's when I first started getting interested in bodybuilding, I used to order old issues of MD and read them cover to cover! I’ll never forget the excitement when a package from York, Pennsylvania would arrive with all the old back issues from the mid 1960's and early 70's! But back then, you hardly saw any supplement ads, just Hoffman’s protein powder and wheat germ oil! Almost the entire magazine was nutrition and training articles! That’s the way it should be because nutrition and training are far, far more important than supplements! Yes, supplements are awesome, but you need to train and eat properly to get really good in this sport! Anyway, one of my favorite authors was a guy named Bradley J. Stiener. His credo was that most bodybuilders over trained “with ...

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