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Universal Nutrition Animal Pak comes in 44 or 15 Scientifically balanced packets containing Mega Vitamins & Minerals, Performance Nutrients, & Amino Acids!
By: James Stettler
How often to train? That is the question! There are dark rumors afloat; being whispered but never dared shouted. Read on if you would like to learn the truth about training frequency and see if you agree or not. I have also included a sample program...
By: Ryan Patrick
It's just a simple fact that more muscle is possible by training less... long term. But don't confuse less with easier. Here's a look at why and workouts to get you there.
By: Joel Marion
Inadequate training frequency may be the greatest contributor to small gains. That's right, but there is more... Learn how overtraining can effect you. Bonus: training methods to avoid overtraining!
What is the best high frequency workout routine? Increase mass and recovery time with these full workout programs from our forum members! That and more right here. Try them now!
How can one maintain their physique? Our forum members share some helpful information such as routines for maintenance, diet, supplements, and more right here. Read on to learn more!
By: Aaron Links
This article is focused on the natural bodybuilders who don't get the extra nutrient/protein assimilation offered by various performance-enhancing drugs. Build a better body and bigger arms by trying what I have learned through trial and error.
What is the best time of day to weight train? Our forum members have some good insight into this somewhat subjective topic. See what they have to say.
By: Mike Mahler
Tired of training programs that want you to avoid overtraining at all costs? Then maybe you should take a look at High Frequency Training!
By: Peak Performance
Check out these three different methods of quantifying a training load, each with its own merits and limitations. Learn the potential usefulness of Excel spreadsheets in helping coaches and athletes summarize their training loads in graphic terms.
By: Mike Mahler
In this article I am going to show you what exercises to focus on and provide an example of a workout to get you started.
By: Sara Morin
When you schedule your day, it is often overwhelming and filled with countless commitments and stress. You find that you’ve spread yourself so thin, that you come home at night and land in a heap. Throw children into the mix and you’ve got a recipe for co
By: Jason Bennett
I went home and devised a plan for the next two weeks to specifically target getting back into proper form. I call this my Back to the Gym Plan and hopefully it can help anyone of you reading this come back from a long layoff.
By: Jim Brewster
Are you one of those people who lead a very busy life? Do you have a job that demands 60+ hours a week? Then try this program to work with.
By: Mark Subsinsky
There are several aspects that I will be covering in the series. The first installment will discuss, sleep, changing sleep patterns and training/workout schedules.
By: David Gluhareff
As a trainer I can’t tell you how many times I have heard – I do not have enough time to work out! - from a potential client. I want to get sick when I hear this. To us trainers this should sound a bell in our heads signaling a challenge.
By: HST
Whether you are sold on heavy weight and low reps, or less weight and more reps, if your training frequency is not planned with the same scrutiny as other aspects of your routine, you may be wasting time unnecessarily. Science is now showing us things that may change the way you train forever!
By: Aaron Whitten
One of the most overlooked aspects of training is the proper cycling of training frequency. Find how to increase your explosive power, strength and mass while reducing bodyfat levels.
By: Charles Poliquin
Frequency of training is measured as the number of training sessions for a given muscle group or lift per unit of time. Learn what they three main schools of frequency are and what my observations of them are! BONUS: Charles' German Volume training program.
By: Chris Zaino
Why are more and more people failing in their attempts to achieve a healthier, leaner physique? Their workouts were great, they did their cardio, ate right too. Learn why time & consistency are the key to gains!
By: Mike Mahler
Most of us are willing to try just about any new weight-training program that comes down the pipe. But would you be willing to try something so different that it doesn't even involve using weights? Learn how to make gains without weights!
By: Shannon Pittman
For those who seem to have no genetic gifts in the area of body mass gain there is still hope.
By: Mark Saunders
Traveling means waiting and waiting and waiting. Learn how to stay in shape on the road or in the air!
By: Pete Sisco
How often should you workout? The answer may surprise you! Discover YOUR optimum training frequency to unleash new growth.
By: Randy Herring
Freehand exercises have a tonic effect on the muscles and internal organs. They tone up the circulatory system and are beneficial in safeguarding the general health of the body. Advanced freehand exercises shape and muscularize the body.
By: Ryan Mackie
I like to look at everything I do with my training very closely. Knowing exactly why I'm doing certain routines, training methods and why I'm following a certain type of diet strategy.
By: David Knowles
Unfortunately, yesterday's "day-of-rest" was not a very restful one. However, I feel good enough to start this last round of workouts...
By: Ryan Bame
Ok, you are on vacation, you can't risk taking a two to three week break from your rigorous workout, but you don't have any equipment to train with. There is a simple solution, a workout without weights!
By: Randy Herring
I am following an Intermediate 4-day Split modified for Advanced Training so I can train body parts more frequently to cycle my weight & rep scheme and also to vary the exercises and technique.
By: Sean Quade
Sure, food is the raw materials for your body to work with, and sleeping actually makes you recover, but these two aspects are useless if you don't stimulate the body to gain muscle in the form of lifting weights. Learn about: Reps, Sets, Failure and Splits, The Pump, Workout Time and Progressive Resistance, Intensity and the Weider Principles, Plateaus, Machines vs. Free Weights and more!
By: David Knowles
I think that it goes without saying that if you want to succeed in bodybuilding, you need to make time in order to train. However, problems are encountered with an extremely busy schedule. Trust me, even with the busiest schedule you can have time to workout.
By: Bryan Locke
People are trashin' the way I workout and I am sick of it! People who are using HIT think that my way of training is wrong. I will prove them wrong with this article!
By: Jeff Galterio
There are many aspects of bodybuilding that will apply to everyone such as technique and the basic principles. Other items will need to be custom fit to you and will often need to be found out through trial and error. However, everyone will need to understand the basic principles involved in assembling a well-fit training program.
By: AJ
You just got to work from the ground up like bodybuilding. Start with the simpler things and move onto bigger more expensive pieces of equipment.
By: Ben
Sure they have heaps and heaps of equipment and you can do heaps of different stuff. On the other hand crowded gyms can be annoying and can effect the intensity that you train at, particularly when supersetting. You don't want to finish one particular exercise and go to the next one finding that you can't use it because some huge ego-driven guy is setting there sweating over the machine you want to use.
By: Ben
Personally I find that gyms are overrated. Sure they have heaps and heaps of equipment and you can do heaps of different stuff. On the other hand crowded gyms can be annoying and can effect the intensity that you train at, particularly when supersetting.
By: Derek Charlebois
If you can not get the gym and don't have any weights, try the milk jug workout!
By: John Giljum
Make no mistake, when you're beginning, in other words, your first year or two of hard-core training, you have to follow a program- and follow it to the T.
By: Big Red
As bodybuilders, we are always looking for the quickest, most efficient ways to produce results and reach our goals. Features: The One Set Case, The Bare Minimum, A Full Workout Program For Two and Three Days Per Week.
By: John Lemare
If you are trying to cut -up and you are on holiday by a beach it's the perfect time to go for a 20 minute swim or even running on the sand as it is harder than on the treadmill and much more tiring so you will burn more calories.
By: Bryan Locke
There are several advantages that make working out at home more productive than going to a local gym.
By: Matt Danielsson
The bottom line in their argument was that Arnold advocated working out for hours every day, while Mike wanted people to spend as little time as possible in the gym. Learn why and which one is better!
By: Todd Blue
In this article I will go over a few different training routines that can be done while training at home. I will touch on various ones from a complete home gym to having just the basic equipment. So let's jump into it.
By: Big Cat
This is going to be a very short article, sort of as an additional remark, for when you start putting together your workout. Exercise cycling is a collection of different approaches I use to provide variety in a muscle according to that muscle's capacity and make-up.
By: Big Dog Seth
Push it to the max with high intensity training techniques! Be prepared for the most amazing results you will ever see!
By: Todd Blue
By training at home there are no restrictions on what I can and can't do. To me the pros far out weigh the cons when training at home.
By: Big Cat
You start as a beginner and progress until you are an advanced bodybuilder. How do you know where you are right now? What should you do during each stage in between?
By: Mitch Hodge
Everyone wants to know the perfect amount of time to spend in the gym for maximum results. Three on, one off, no, four on, two off, or was it three on, two off, one on, one off?! I'm telling you it's enough to drive a hardcore bodybuilder to the lap pool. Learn about the different eras of bodybuilding and different theories.
By: Derek Charlebois
Here is my training journal and workout program as I try to gain more mass over the summer!
By: Phano Som
Simply put, big strong muscles are the result of lifting big heavy weights. They are not, however, the result of lifting heavy weights only.
By: Mark Tilden
I am writing this on Thanksgiving Day and I thought what better day to elaborate on the gains I've made on my physique in the last 8 weeks. Here is my full 5-day training split!
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