Training

“Youth is wasted on the young” is a saying that issues from the mouths of the old who have made mistakes...

In Part 1 of this discussion we saw how lack of sleep negatively affects your anabolic hormones and promotes bodyfat accrual....

It’s a nine-day sequence that uses a three-way split, and you train one day, then rest two before the next workout—so...

The crowd goes absolutely wild—packed as it is with dozens of my friends and family members. My heart is beating wildly,...

In the e-book X-traordinary Arms we explain the in-for-out/out-for-in principle. For biceps it means that to focus on the outer head...

Perhaps the best reason to start a youngster on a strength program is the effect it will have on self-confidence.

After years of heavy power training—years upon years of heavy triples, doubles and singles performed with supermaximal poundages, my body just...

Kill the myth that says we can’t increase muscle mass at an older age and progress in bodybuilding or strength training....

A smarter approach is to look at how body position affects the triceps, specifically the differences produced by performing triceps extensions...

Covering yourself in Preparation H is just going to make you smell like ass.

On most exercises I use textbook form, with a very full range of motion—until it’s X-Rep time, of course—and a slower...

Q: I’m a 20-year-old guy from England. I’ve been training for two months now, four times a week, using a split...

To keep a secure grip, use a well-knurled bar and lifter’s chalk on your hands. Eventually, when you build up to...

Many times in life the things that cause you the most discomfort and pain in the short term become the most...

I can’t resist mocking myself, my tarnished conversations and the fact that I’m 66 and nibble at the edges of cracker-size...