There are a number of body building techniques that will result in faster muscle growth. These are techniques that have over the years proven to be of great benefit. 1.Split training This in simple terms is dividing the various exercises or workouts into the various muscle groups which they work. Then you can divide your different workout sessions based on these categories. E.g. the upper body and the lower body. The advantage of split training is that you don’t have to work out the whole body in one session. Doing so may end up as over training which in itself has adverse effect like excessive soreness and even injury. This reduces the pressure on the body builder. He can efficiently work out his entire body in a number of sessions which yields better results than rushing through the sets. 2. Circuit training This is rapid ...

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Q: My bench has been “stuck” at 235 for the past 2 years! I’m 6’4” so I’ll always be a “pussy bencher” because my arms are so long! My goal is 300… any suggestion would be awesome! A: The first thing I suggest is a new bench routine (page 26) which I just wrote! Try it, it’s an amazing new theory on progressive resistance training! The second thing I suggest is some good old fashioned Testosterone for strength! After all, this is the drug all the great powerlifters love! It makes your muscles strong… but it makes you very aggressive and “mean”. And listen, when you back out of a squat rack with 800 pounds on your back… you better be aggressive and “mean” or you’ll get buried! One Testosterone compound I am very “high” on is Oral Testibol™! Oral ...

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The bodybuilding training pendulum seems to swing, every few years, from “power” training to “pump” training. For a few years, you’ll have the classical, Zane-like physiques winning top bodybuilding shows, and everyone in every gym in America will be training with isolation exercises, completing high-rep sets, and trying to “pump” their way to a symmetrical physique. Then, a few years later when most people have tired of the swimmer look, powerful physiques will return to the forefront of magazine covers and bodybuilding stages. Soon, you’ll have every kid in America squatting, benching, and dead lifting their way through 3-rep sets in attempts to be the biggest guy in the gym. Though the pendulum swings every few years, it appears we are certainly currently entrenched in a “power” phase, where the bigger man is considered better, and the ...

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Very often, when you enter a gym, you can guess the repetition range a trainer will use based upon his physique. If a person is big, without definition, and very strong, it’s a safe bet that he’s employing a very low repetition range. On the other hand, if the person training is lean, has some good muscle, but looks like he could run a marathon with no trouble, then it’s likely he uses a higher range. Let’s check out the four primary repetition ranges, and examine the movements and bodybuilders most likely to be associated with them. Training for Power (1-3 repetitions) If you’ve seen a powerful offensive lineman knock another man off his feet, or a strongman lift a 250-pound Atlas ball over his head, then you have seen the results of training for power in action! ...

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What are your goals in the weight room? Do you want to break a state powerlifting record? Do you want to become a completely ripped 160-pound Adonis? Or are you simply looking to add mass and power? This article is designed for those of you seeking to add mass and power to your physique. You’re not concerned about powerlifting numbers and making progress. You’re not too interested in becoming diced and lean, just yet. You can always do that down the road. Your goal today is to pile on slabs of muscle to your frame, and get a lot stronger while doing so. Here are a few guidelines to follow if your training goals are mass and power. 5 to 8 If you train below 5 reps, you’re only hitting a small percentage of your total ...

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Strength x Speed = Power This age-old adage has been used to define the importance of both strength and speed in the overall definition of power. A lack of either of these components renders the other one nearly useless. In football, a super-fast wide receiver is useless if he is easily knocked to the turf at the line of scrimmage by the opposing defensive back. Likewise, a highly strong offensive lineman is of useless protection to the quarterback if he is so slow that the defensive blitzers can just run around him. For athletes looking to improve their sports performance – or just overall power for every day life – it’s important to focus training upon both strength and speed. The strength aspect is often easily covered by the daily weightlifting routines in which we engage. Five ...

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The bodybuilding training pendulum seems to swing, every few years, from “power” training to “pump” training. For a few years, you’ll have the classical, Zane-like physiques winning top bodybuilding shows, and everyone in every gym in America will be training with isolation exercises, completing high-rep sets, and trying to “pump” their way to a symmetrical physique. Then, a few years later when most people have tired of the swimmer look, powerful physiques will return to the forefront of magazine covers and bodybuilding stages. Soon, you’ll have every kid in America squatting, benching, and dead lifting their way through 3-rep sets in attempts to be the biggest guy in the gym. Though the pendulum swings every few years, it appears we are certainly currently entrenched in a “power” phase, where the bigger man is considered better, and the better man wins, ...

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The legs generate the most productive power in weightlifting, and in all athletics, really, over a small range of motion at the knee, hip and ankle joints. There is a lot of power, in other words, packed into a relatively small range of motion, so making the best of each repetition is crucial to leg development, power, strength and speed. We remember watching Vasily Alexiev win the gold medal back in 1972. The guy was a phenomenal lifter. So impressive was this guy and his strength and technique and overall aura as he hoisted ungodly weights, you half expected him to start bleeding out all over the mats, or die of an exploding heart, for the kind of gut-busting, vessel bursting effort he put forth in each clean and jerk and deadlift. Those Russians know what time it is when it comes to ...

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