The Definitive Guide To Deloads And Training Breaks

2022-09-23T09:09:05-04:00By |Weight Training|

Will your muscles shrivel up and your strength plummet if you take a week of light or easy lifting, or even take a week of total rest, or could an intentional training break actually improve your long-term gains and reduce risk of injury and burnout? If the latter is true, then how often should you back off, what should you back off of (weight, reps, volume, intensity) and how long should you do it?

If Your Body is Overtrained, What Should You Do About It? 10 Tactics To Re-Boot Your Recovery

2022-09-23T07:51:12-04:00By |Weight Training|

When you’re feeling burned out from a long stretch of hard training and you suspect you have over-training syndrome, there are many strategies and tactics you can apply to stimulate recovery and start making progress again, and to prevent over-training in the future.

Time-Efficient Weight Training, According To Science

2022-05-13T18:31:38-04:00By |Weight Training|

Time-efficient training is a vitally important topic because lack of time is one of the most commonly reported barriers to exercising consistently. For many people, "no time to train" is their number one problem, or at least it's their biggest perceived problem. I say "perceived" because if they knew about the time-saving training strategies you're about to learn in this blog post, they wouldn't see "no time" as a problem anymore.

The 2/3 Hybrid Split Routine For Building Muscle

2021-12-09T13:35:30-05:00By |bodybuilding, Weight Training|

I'd like to introduce a new type of "hybrid" split routine designed for building both muscle and strength at the same time. You'll get a lot stronger on this schedule, but because you don't train heavy every day of the week, it's fairly easy on your joints. It also rotates some of the exercises through the week so you don't get bored, and it uses triple progression so you can keep making gains on the same routine for 12 weeks straight. 

Rest Pause Training: The High-Intensity Lifting Technique To Build More Muscle In Less Time

2022-05-13T16:21:39-04:00By |bodybuilding, Weight Training|

Weight training systems that save you time without compromising your gains are the most valuable kind for busy people. When the same training method helps you easily achieve progressive overload as well, that takes it to a whole other level. The rest pause training method is one of the few that achieves both. It's not a new technique - it's been used by pro bodybuilders for at least 60 years, but outside of physique sports, most people don't even know what rest pause is. Now, decades later, scientists have confirmed how effective and efficient it is so if you're not using it, you're missing out... |image1|

Is A Full Body Workout Better Than A Split Routine For Fat Loss?

2021-04-01T11:02:01-04:00By |Weight Training|

Is a full body workout better? Full body workouts can be quite effective and they suit a lot of people's goals, schedules and preferences. The problem is when a training guru claims that full body workouts are superior to split routines for helping to increase fat loss. That's not necessarily true and here's why...

The Definitive Guide To Antagonist Superset Training: How To Build More Muscle In Half The Time

2022-04-26T11:12:19-04:00By |Featured, Superset Training, Weight Training|

Even before modern scientific research on supersets was ever published, world-class bodybuilders had already figured it out. Antagonist superset training was a favorite technique of the bodybuilding champions in the 60s and 70s Golden Era, including Mr. America Dave Draper and the one and only Arnold Schwarzenegger. This is the definitive guide to supersets…

How Lifting Weights “Backwards” Helps You Keep Gaining Muscle And Lifting Pain Free For Life

2021-11-21T14:55:53-05:00By |bodybuilding, Weight Training|

There are standard guidelines for choosing all your weight training variables. Traditional trainers and textbooks advise us to follow these rules if we want the best results in strength and [...]

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