The best program for muscle hypertrophy and aerobic capacity extends the training perspective to a year-long pursuit of improved fitness.
Bodybuilding training isn’t the only way to build muscle. Here are serious hypertrophy techniques ripped straight from the powerlifting platform.
A forgotten back exercise that will pump blood into your lats like never before
In a traditional drop-set, you decrease weight in successive reps. With these variations, you will alter the movements to train past failure and new growth.
This routine divides training into push, pull, and leg sessions for maximal muscular growth and optimal time efficiency.
Dave and the BIG DOG bring on scapular Armageddon by inflicting trapezoid tyranny and latissimus dorsi demolitiion with just a touch of rhomboidal wreckage.
Bump up the volume for a better build.
Elitefts™ Advisor and Owner of Mountain Dog Training John Meadows performs a unique calf superset at the S4 Compound.
Train to Failure, or Not Train to Failure? That is the Question!
In this QT, we will look at the latest research on heavy lifting and heart health.
Lift consistently and the demand is perceived as worthy of increasing muscle to handle the work.
Brandon returns with a quick look at hypertrophy and running.
This edition of quick thoughts looks at hypertrophy and muscle length, the final frontier, long-term dilemmas, and the interactions of illness and intense training.
When I was a bright–eyed 22 year-old pecking away on a keyboard performing entry level tasks, I thought meetings were fantastic.
Get a grip on your addiction. You’ll love the result.
As a 16-year old kid, I knew that when two jacked cats like this come into the gym and preach about building size, it’s time to shut up, take notes and soak up that information like a sponge.
The types of adaptations that power athletes have elicited through their training emanate not from one particular muscle group but rather from the entire central nervous system.
One thing I’ve learned in the past couple years is that all of those set and rep tables that students have to memorize in their exercise science classes should be thrown in the trash can.
Having a base level of aerobic fitness can be highly beneficial for a powerlifter.
This is part two of a two- part series discussing lessons that bodybuilders and powerlifters can share with each other.
Cluster or rest-pause training involves using short inter-set rest periods of anywhere from 10–30 seconds to produce more powerful repetitions or more repetitions with a heavy weight.
We’re just over halfway through the season with twenty-two games played and, if successful in the playoffs, the prospect of sixteen more without any time off for good behavior.
The basketball season is just coming to an end for many high schools, and it won’t be long before many of the players are off to their AAU teams.
A lifter uses multiple lifting techniques because the body has many different modes of adaptation.
After analyzing this, is the leg press really safer than the squat?
To get toned and ripped muscles, it’s best to do a lot of reps with light weight to failure…wrong!
So it’s been three meets now and I’m still doing this raw thing.
As an athlete, eventually you hit a point where performance stagnates, whether it’s from asymmetries, lack of mobility in certain joints, injuries, or false plateaus. Whatever the specific reason, we have all felt a loss of performance. It’s at this point that you need to go back and check your training, nutrition, and recovery journal. You should be looking to see if there are repeated setbacks.
I was born with a rebellious streak. It’s been with me just about every day of my 32-year existence. When I wake up every day, I know that I’ll probably do or say something that will probably be nothing more than an act of rebellion in some form or another against something that I see as wrong or unjust. I don’t know why that is. I just accept it as part of my nature. I can’t control it so I embrace it. It’s who I am.
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