Leg day is perhaps the most important day of your training week. Not only are the legs nearly a complete half of your body squeezed into a single training day, but they contain the two largest sets of muscle groups in the body, the glutes and quadriceps. Properly training muscle groups such as biceps and shoulders are easy – you show up in a tank top and knock out your exercises. Adequately stimulating the legs requires a fair deal of preparation before the workout begins. Here are some tips for showing up better prepared in the gym the next time leg day rolls around! Dress for war Plan your leg day attire more closely than you do any other day. Start with some heavy duty clothes, such as shorts or training pants, that can withstand the demand you’re ...

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Life throws a lot of curveballs at us sometimes. It’s always when we’re making our best gains in bench press numbers that we’ll tweak our shoulder tendon during warm-ups and lose three months of progress while recovering. It’s always when our diet is going so well that our job will throw us a bevy of new duties which will disrupt our eating schedule. Finally, it’s always when we finally seem to find that perfect workout plan that our gym access disappears and we’re limited to a nice set of 40 pounds dumbbells in our garage, until the gym remodeling or our financial problems subside. It’s at these times that we need to make adjustments to our training protocols and find ways to continue making progress – or at the very least maintaining our recent gains – ...

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Q:  So what's the deal with stiff-legged deadlifts? Are they good for mass or just a good stretch? A: That's the age-old debate isn't it? Unlike curling movements for the hams, I find SLDLs create soreness on a regular basis because of the eccentric stretching and lengthening. It's just the opposite of curling that hits the muscle in the middle of the belly. It's hitting the muscle from both ends and then crunching from either end into the middle. I personally think you need both types of work for the hams, but I like SLDLs most of all because I believe that stretching the muscle and then placing resistance on it within a portion of the range actually nets results better than anything else in terms of just plain development. Ultimately, this equals greater size, but it also equals better condition ...

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One unfortunate aspect of bodybuilding that has been manifested in lots of people is the tendency to focus all the effort on the upper body and then doing little or nothing under the belt. There are consequences for this type of training and these are quite comical. There is nothing very amusing if you will spend the whole year in the gym and then emerge only for people to start calling you weird names like ‘chicken legs’ simply because your upper body is so sculpted but it is being supported on feeble legs. You may have incredible proportions in your upper body but you will not get full marks if your legs are spindly in character. You simply have to apply effort in ensuring that you get those noticeable quads and calves. The bodybuilding effort in this case should be approached with ...

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