The first part of training for longevity is ensuring that your body’s central nervous system can adequately handle the demands of your program.
Mark and Dave share their combined knowledge in both powerlifting and bodybuilding, gained from multiple decades honing their respective crafts.
You know the importance of protein, carbohydrates, and fats, but are you overlooking the finer details such as fiber and what types of fats are best?
Performing best, and especially looking your best for the sport of bodybuilding, requires that your body be functioning well on the inside. Mark shares how he has accomplished this throughout his career.
The following details my secondary back workout. I slightly deviated from the plan because the workout took place at the elitefts Compound and Dave Tate took over the biceps programming portion.
Moving increasingly heavier weight from point A to B served me well until I tore my pec benching 500 pounds and blew out my lower back squatting 700. Now I find new ways to add intensity.
Win Free Elitefts UGSS with Special Guest Mark Dugdale
If you’re seeking advice on how to successfully navigate a mid-life crisis, I’m probably not the guy. I am, however, uniquely attuned to my body from years of competing at a high level of bodybuilding.
With nearly 17 years of business ownership under my belt, I’m willing to admit I don’t possess all the answers. However, Garden Fresh Foods continues to thrive.
In four months, I tasted the emotional joy of winning and then the character-shaping process of dealing with missed expectations.
It’s more than athletic prowess or shredded muscularity that flows with beautiful symmetry and balance.
After back-to-back-to-back wins, Mark Dugdale is sharing his methods for making sure he is stage ready on show day.
You have questions, team elitefts has answers. Today’s topic: building muscle through rep ranges and exercise selection.
You have questions, team elitefts has answers. Today’s topic: intra-workout supplementation.
If nothing else, this show proved I still have something left in the tank at 41 years of age.
This is a practical example of exactly what I ate during the sixth week before hitting the contest stage. Why is this important to you? Because it pushes right up to that life sucks and I hate dieting threshold.
If passion most closely relates to desire, then zeal implies action. I often say I’m passionate about training, but in reality I possess more of a zeal for the iron.
You can’t easily change the shape or insertion of the lateral or medial head of the gastrocnemius muscles. But you can develop impressive calves with these techniques.
You might think I’m talking about business. I’m not. I’m talking about something much more important.
What was once a weak point has become a strength of my physique. Whether you’re doing ‘curls for the girls’ or to help your front double biceps pose, here are five things you need to know.
Nobody who is serious about forward progress enters the gym without a plan, without a set of guiding principles. I’ll argue the same is true in life.
Minimize the consequences when you enjoy time with your family and eat good food this holiday season. These tips help me every year.
Be careful who you place on a pedestal. The ramifications may leave you highly devastated.
As a bodybuilder, I frequently abuse my body through training. I had heard of the benefits of Graston for years and finally decided to give it a chance to treat several specific issues.
If you want to rise to the top in bodybuilding, you have to start at the bottom. These ideas about gratification and perspective will help you on the climb.
Mark Dugdale takes us through a simple yet effective recovery complex he uses during back training.
Traptimus Prime. Trapsquatch. Triceratraps. Trapasaurus Flex. Trap Lord. Trappleberry Finn. Traptain America. Whoever you want to be, this will get those muscle mounds growing like a Chia-pet.
Beautiful women, so what’s your Instagram account look like? Selfie-fest? Pushing the limits of skin exposure?
John Meadows performs a Hack Squat with a Reverse Band alteration. Add Hack Squat to your training regime and also incorporate band or chain variations.
When I started bodybuilding, I looked up to Dorian Yates, so I trained like him. And it worked.
Target all three triceps heads and construct mammoth, balanced, powerful arms with these movements from Team elitefts.
After years of competing as an IFBB pro, Dugdale has learned what will keep you thick while you shed fat.
Mark Dugdale’s Posing Routine at the 2014 Phoenix Europa
This one component in your life will affect your success than any other factor.
Do you want to be the guy with bigger biceps, the guy who sleeps with more girls, the guy who pounds more beer and drives the faster car?
Mark Dugdale demonstrates how to perform Chain Extensions with a MAG Grip attachment
Bump up the volume for a better build.
Mark Dugdale demonstrates how to perform a brutal drop set of Bulgarian Split Squats
Mark Dugdale demonstrates how to increase tension on the vastus lateralis by using Elitefts™ Pro Light Resistance Bands on the leg press.
I explain the logic of how I'm transitioning from my current post-contest shape to prep for the Olympia.
When it becomes time to step on stage, these tips and tricks add the final bit of refinement to a pro-level champion.
Seven things to consider when going to that dark and lonely place called dieting.
Those of us that believe we have nothing to learn from others are doomed to limit our progress. Here is what I picked up while spending a week in the dungeon with Dorian Yates.
No matter your beginning, you can always choose to leave an honorable legacy.
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