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The Secret To Big Gains: Avoid Overtraining For Maximum Muscle Mass!
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! 2317 Words - Date Added: May 22, 2009

What Is The Best High Frequency Workout Routine?
By: Workout Of The Week
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! 3908 Words - Date Added: Feb 05, 2008

How Can One Maintain Their Physique?
By: Topic Of The Week
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! 7294 Words - Date Added: Oct 19, 2007

Debate This: Train Once A Month For Massive Muscles!
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... 2967 Words - Date Added: Feb 16, 2007

Training For Bigger Arms: Techniques For Natural Bodybuilding.
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. 2438 Words - Date Added: Dec 19, 2006

What Is The Best Time Of Day To Weight Train?
By: Topic Of The Week
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. 5501 Words - Date Added: Apr 07, 2006

High Frequency Training: Avoid Overtraining!
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! 2615 Words - Date Added: Oct 04, 2005

Training Schedules: Three Ways To Quantify And Evaluate Your 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. 2311 Words - Date Added: Jul 14, 2005

Workout Less & Achieve More.
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. 1274 Words - Date Added: Aug 31, 2004

Put Yourself First: Making Time For Fitness!
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 1129 Words - Date Added: May 26, 2004

Back To The Gym!
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. 1449 Words - Date Added: Feb 27, 2004

Training When You Don't Have Time!
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. 1217 Words - Date Added: Feb 26, 2004

Working The Back Shift: Working Out For The Non Nine To Fiver's!
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. 2080 Words - Date Added: Feb 21, 2004

No Time To Workout?
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. 648 Words - Date Added: Feb 16, 2004

Planning Your Training Frequency: Timing Is Everything!
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! 873 Words - Date Added: Feb 03, 2004

Cycled Recovery!
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. 1500 Words - Date Added: Dec 29, 2003

Frequency Of Training!
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. 3268 Words - Date Added: Sep 10, 2003

Time & Consistency: The Keys To The Body You Desire!
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! 1076 Words - Date Added: Jul 07, 2003

Combat Conditioning: Five Months Without Weights!
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! 2206 Words - Date Added: Feb 21, 2003

The Ultra Hardgainer Routine
By: Shannon Pittman
For those who seem to have no genetic gifts in the area of body mass gain there is still hope. 893 Words - Date Added: Jan 14, 2003

Traveling & Staying Fit
By: Mark Saunders
Traveling means waiting and waiting and waiting. Learn how to stay in shape on the road or in the air! 1320 Words - Date Added: Dec 17, 2002

Discover Your Optimum Training Frequency!
By: Pete Sisco
How often should you workout? The answer may surprise you! Discover YOUR optimum training frequency to unleash new growth. 1393 Words - Date Added: Nov 27, 2002

Free-Hand Your Way To Fitness!
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. 1403 Words - Date Added: Oct 15, 2002

A Guide To Effective Weekly Training Analysis
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. 1451 Words - Date Added: Sep 19, 2002

Hardcore Precontest Training Journal 2!
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... 1676 Words - Date Added: Sep 12, 2002

Workout Without Weights
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! 900 Words - Date Added: Jul 01, 2002

Randy's Advanced Muscle-Building & Fat Loss Training Regimen
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. 1259 Words - Date Added: Jun 28, 2002

Effective Anabolic Training...
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! 1154 Words - Date Added: May 16, 2002

Making Time and Making the Most of Your Time
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. 1053 Words - Date Added: May 01, 2002

Ballz 2 Da Wall!
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! 2415 Words - Date Added: Apr 11, 2002

Designing A Training Schedule: Things To Consider
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. 598 Words - Date Added: Apr 06, 2002

Your Own Home Gym
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. 951 Words - Date Added: Apr 02, 2002

Training At Home With The Bare Essentials
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. Date Added: Apr 01, 2002

An Example Home Workout
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. Date Added: Apr 01, 2002

The Milk Jug Workout & The Push-Up With Pictures!
By: Derek Charlebois
If you can not get the gym and don't have any weights, try the milk jug workout! 787 Words - Date Added: Mar 27, 2002

The No Equipment Experience
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. 917 Words - Date Added: Mar 27, 2002

A Shift Toward Quicker Results
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. 1439 Words - Date Added: Mar 20, 2002

Training While On Holiday
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. 845 Words - Date Added: Mar 07, 2002

Designing A Home Gym
By: Bryan Locke
There are several advantages that make working out at home more productive than going to a local gym. 716 Words - Date Added: Mar 07, 2002

Volume Training Vs. Heavy Duty!
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! 918 Words - Date Added: Jan 13, 2002

Training at Home - The Workouts
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. 767 Words - Date Added: Dec 21, 2001

Exercise Cycling
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. 1544 Words - Date Added: Dec 21, 2001

Training Frequency Advice
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! 1202 Words - Date Added: Dec 21, 2001

Training at Home - The Right Equipment
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. 1351 Words - Date Added: Dec 02, 2001

Progression of Training!
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? 2751 Words - Date Added: Oct 09, 2001

The Training Dilemma Part 1
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. 1273 Words - Date Added: Oct 01, 2001

Summer of Mass Part II
By: Derek Charlebois
Here is my training journal and workout program as I try to gain more mass over the summer! 2690 Words - Date Added: Jun 02, 2001

Cycle Your Training!
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. 877 Words - Date Added: May 22, 2001

My Mass Gaining Program
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! 517 Words - Date Added: Aug 10, 2000

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