Muscle Building Programs

2012-09-02

One of the biggest areas of debate in the world of training to build muscle is that of workout intensity and volume—the many ways to distribute these...

2012-08-28

Suppose you seem to be doing everything right in your muscle building efforts: You lift heavy and hard; you focus on compound exercises; you get sound...

2012-08-20

Everyone wants to know what is the best way to build muscle. This is a very broad question. However, there is a standard answer: Lift moderately heavy...

2012-08-18

Every muscle building enthusiast needs to know about a loading scheme called the reverse pyramid. This may very well be the answer that you’ve been looking...

2012-07-09

If you’ve tried HIIT and traditional weight training and still are not as lean as you’d like to be, it’s time to do hybrid routines for fat loss/burning...

2012-07-07

You may have heard that for maximal hypertrophy, it’s absolutely essential to go to muscle failure. “Training to failure” refers to completing as many...

2012-06-26

A tip-off that you have a muscle strain versus an injury in a joint is that the middle of a limb is where the discomfort is; or, the aching, tenderness...

2012-06-19

The trapezius muscle group is actually three muscles: lower, middle and upper “traps.” It is the upper traps muscle that many muscle building enthusiasts...

2012-06-07

Momentum is always a part of weight training. You cannot train with weights without the involvement of momentum. Momentum is mass times velocity. So...

2012-06-05

Inside every cell, including muscle cells, are “energy machines” or “engines” called mitochondria (singular, mitochondrion). Mitochondria are important...