Ask yourself a question – are you a weight-lifter or a resistance-trainer? An odd one to ask, you may say, because the answer is simple – you’re both. Weights provide the resistance that your muscles need to push against, when rolling through the reps. That resistance comes from shifting weights against gravity, giving your muscles [...]
However easy the pro’s may make shifting free-weights around, getting that awesome bench-press or squat to work as well for you is no trivial matter. Despite reputations to the contrary, there’s more to working weights than just sheer muscle-power. A large dollop of sass and technique is needed too. But if you can get the [...]
To build muscle, and visibly gain in power and strength, technique is undoubtedly key. For your muscles to be kicked into that all-important growth phase, they need be stretched, and stretched hard – all the way to their breaking point. But those muscles need help to do that. Something they can push or pull against. [...]
‘Isometric holds’ – sound a little scary to you? Relax. They’re not some cast back to math class. Instead, they’re a powerful set of exercises that the sharper strength-trainers cottoned onto years ago. Used right, they can be valuable tool in workout kit-bag, helping you to get the ‘max-out’ from the ‘max-in’ you lay down [...]
OK, we all know that there’s a fine line in this game between training on the cusp of optimal performance – and crashing right over the other side, into the dismal rut of over-training. Who hasn’t been there, despite the warnings? In a sport where pushing the limits hard is an ingrained part of the [...]
If you’ve been wedded to weights for a while – and happy with the results – you may find it hard to think that there might be another way to molding the body you want. How can you pump up your pecs, and bulk out those biceps, except by giving them something weighty to work [...]
Check out the average muscle-building website, or mag, and many-an-athlete new to this game might be forgiven for thinking they’d slipped into an alternate reality. One where large doses of Klingon had hijacked the English language. That can make it hard for the newbie to hit the ground running. Actually, scratch that. It can make [...]
Bodyweight approaches to getting strong have a lot going for them. They’re simple to take up – any place and any time – with virtually no outlay. The risk of injury or over-development is considerably lowered. And you get a body that’s a little less freakish, and a lot more functional, than some meat-packed bodies [...]
It may come as a surprise. But there’s a simple work-out tool that can do just as much for gaining tight, lean muscle-mass as that glittering multi-station strength machine you’ve been eying in muscle-mags. This one, however, only weighs only a few ounces. And you can hold it between finger-and-thumb. It’s called a pen – [...]
You know they’re lurking in there. The fat-piling, sugar-overloading, body-wrecking foods that you never quite manage to clear out of your larder. You might try to pretend they’re not really there – and try staying focused on only on the good clean food and supps that you stocked up, back when your nutritional halo was [...]
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