There’s a fine line between training like a madman, and training foolishly. Likewise, you walk a tight rope between training safely and failing to push your muscles to growth. Many bodybuilders have long worried they were training too safe, not safely enough, too heavy, too light, and more. Others just go into the weight room and throw some weights around, training in a chaotic manner and essentially wrecking the weight room in the process. It seems that this group of kamikaze trainers is typically more likely to sustain injuries, and the safe, cautious lifters are the ones who never seem to make serious gains. Can there be a middle ground? Is there a manner of training which would allow the bodybuilder to demolish the weights, but do so in a controlled manner? Of course ...

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A reduced proneness to injury- If you want to enjoy a long and injury-free bodybuilding career you should look into the way in which you are executing every rep. You should make sure that every move is accomplished with near biomechanical perfection so as to enjoy maximum gains from every training regimen. Every lift and movement should be carried out in a controlled and tight manner that is both safe and effective. If you allow injuries to be commonplace in your career then you will have much downtime that will represent wasted opportunities to grow stronger and bigger. Reduced involvement of unrelated muscles and 'cheating'- If you are suffering from poor form it is most likely that as you train certain muscle groups using specified routines other muscles that are not required are coming into play to support the weakened muscle. ...

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Most of the time bodybuilders are faced with the tough task of having to choose the best equipment from a very wide variety that has flooded the market. Also many bodybuilders are time barred, are unable to afford being members of clubs and are generally inconvenienced by having to walk across the streets to the nearby gym. In such a situation home exercises come in handy. But, as always, there is the problem of setting ones own gym. The many choices that are available intimidate those who are thinking of starting up a home gym. It is important to consider the actual fitness requirements, space, and budget in order for your home fitness centre to become a reality. The following equipment should be given priority when establishing your own fitness centre: 1. THE STABILITY BALL This is a very large orb which can be inflated. ...

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In the initial workouts the bodybuilder is advised to gauge his ability by gradually adding to the resistance used and experimenting to see what the optimal capacity will be. One should begin with pretty light weights in order to get fully warmed up and then gradually increase the load as the body continues to get more familiar with the requirements. Each weight addition should be used to complete a set of motions. If you gradually add the weight and find out that you are able to accomplish a dozen reps per set while still maintaining good form you should add some extra load etc. This form of training is referred to as pyramid training. It has been recommended as one of the safest and best ways of training. The basis of pyramid training is to constantly add to the load until you ...

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It’s a well-known fact that the majority of bodybuilders suffer from the same pectoral deficiency. They begin training at a home gym on a flat bench. The first 2-3 years of their training is usually devoted to training chest using the flat bench press. As a result, these new bodybuilders develop thick lower and middle chests which appear shallow and flat in the upper area. It’s only when they join a gym that they manage to discover the incline press, evaluate their physique and admit a weakness, and work to improve it through exercise selection. There are plenty articles out there about the importance of training upper pecs more in order to attain a fuller upper chest. However, most of them tend to neglect the second-most common chest weakness: Poor shoulder-pec tie-ins. Open up any ...

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If you have a well-developed back, then you already know the importance of barbell rowing. It’s essential for developing thickness in the upper back, and for lats that can best be described as ‘flaring’. Barbell rows are popular, but there are times when they are rendered ineffective because the bodybuilder uses too much weight, or allows their body “English”, or swing, to move the weight. Emphasis is taken off of the upper back muscles, and growth doesn’t occur as it should. Years ago a bodybuilding and health & fitness legend named Vince Gironda devised a new exercise which is still used today by bodybuilders seeking a well-developed back. This exercise is known as Gironda Rows, and allows the bodybuilder to lie completely parallel with the ground and truly stimulate the muscles of the upper back without ...

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Tom Platz owned perhaps the greatest set of thighs in bodybuilding history. He loved to squat and considered them to be the #1 exercise for building up the legs. His intense leg workouts are revered as some of the most intense in bodybuilding history, and he always employed a radical array of new techniques and methods into his training protocol, some of which have been overlooked by today’s trainers. Partial reps, extreme stretching, and other practices gave Platz the greatest legs of his (or any) generation, but they seem to have fallen by the wayside in the twenty-five years since he last donned the posing dais. Platz employed a technique which many of today’s experts shun – partial squats. Referred to as “half-squats”, this movement involves starting with the standard squat position, and proceeding to complete the first ...

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There has been a significant improvement in the training regimen of most bodybuilders due to the availability of information. When you are training the chest muscles you need to use four simple techniques which are guaranteed to ensure your success. These four techniques have been used by many bodybuilders because they are the ones which yield great results when it comes to developing the chest muscles. 1. Push Ups This is the simplest technique for exercising the chest muscles. Almost anyone can perform sit ups and you do not have to be a guru to do them. The other advantage about this method is that you do not need any special equipment so that you are able to do them. The chest muscles are very unique because they are connected to various other muscles. The procedure for performing push ups is to first ...

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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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For many bodybuilders, a set of thick pectoral muscles comes fast and easy. They do their bench presses and dumbbell presses, and within a few years they have a very solid foundation, an epicenter for the eyes to land when examining any front pose. They show up at the gym, run through 3 or 4 sets of benching exercises, and call it a day, and they show up on the bodybuilding stage with those shelf-like pecs we all dream of possessing. For others, a well-developed chest takes a not only great deal of time and effort to build the muscle, but a few key processes. Isolating the correct areas using the correct focus is the key to a balanced, complete set of pectoral muscles. Focus On The Upper Chest In the majority of cases of bodybuilders with underdeveloped pectorals, the problem ...

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