The Triple Shot is a training technique which allows the bodybuilder to stimulate each muscle group from the three most important angles. It’s not a super-set, which is designed for fast blood loading. And it’s not a giant set, designed for complete muscle annihilation. Rather, the Triple Shot is a technique designed to isolate the three largest parts of a muscle group, then delivering the three most effective movements for hitting these areas. The goal, of course, is the most possible muscle group stimulation leading to growth. Let’s check out routines for some of your muscle groups. Chest Flat bench press, immediately followed by incline dumbbell flyes, immediately followed by decline bench press. Keep the weight heavy enough to challenge you for 6 to 10 repetitions on all sets. Back Deadlifts, immediately followed by lat pulldowns, ...

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Looking to add a few inches of mass to your quadriceps? Tired of doing the same old thing with the same old results? Your workout might be fine. What you may need are just a few minor tweaks to help surprise your legs into a bit of new growth. Here are a few tips for taking them to the next level! Cover up your upper body A great deal of heat and energy can escape from the upper body when you are training legs. Not only that, but drawing so much blood to your legs means your upper body can appear flat and scrawny. This can mess with your mind and certainly bring down your spirits when you need your energy levels at their highest. Avoid this problem by wearing a nice XXL sweatshirt when training ...

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Are you an intermediate bodybuilder who just can’t seem to break the 200-pound mark? You eat everything in sight and take an hour nap each day, but something just seems to be lacking? Chances are, your body has become accustomed to your training patterns. You might be using the ever-popular 5-day training split (Chest, back, Shoulder, Arm, and Leg days). Or you might be using another. Whatever system you’ve been choosing, your body may no longer be responding. Without that need for response, the muscles stay their current size. Here are five routines that you should try for stunning the muscles into growing. Routine #1: 20 rep squats Squat three times per week. It’s that simple. Start your Monday with some warm-ups, then proceed to complete one all-out set of squats. This ...

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Maybe you just got your clock cleaned at a show by a guy with sensational hamstrings. Maybe you just saw a picture of Tom Prince in his competitive heyday, with hanging hamstrings that looked bigger and thicker than your thighs even look. Maybe your own thighs have been showing marked improvement, but your hamstrings just look the same as they always have. And maybe you’ve just come to the realization that a set of thick, powerful, bulging hamstrings is something you want – and something you will no longer be denied. Whatever your reasoning, you’ve come to the right place. Let’s examine a few techniques to help make those hammies the best they can be! Stiff-Legged Deadlifts This movement is often overlooked for hamstring training. Many bodybuilders use them for deadlifts, as they are great for building ...

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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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Q:  I am so pissed off right now!  I have started to develop stretch marks on my biceps after lifting heavy, but noticed the other day that I now have them in the oddest place – in the inside of my thighs. Should I use something to prevent or treat them? A: This is more common than you think. But there are deep stretch marks and superficial ones. If you’re talking about the skin that is really thin next to your groin area, they are likely white ones that are faint looking. They shouldn’t be red. If they are, that’s something I can’t address. You probably never have looked at any other male in that area ever, so you don’t know really what the norm is. But I can tell you, it’s fairly common.  That’s really sensitive skin that feathers out from the genitals ...

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