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Alex Roberts Tri-Sets Workout: Unconventional Compound Sets for Building Muscle What's a Tri-Set? The phrase "tri-set" was coined by the great Joe Weider more than 50 years ago. It involves assaulting a single muscle group with 3 exercises consecutively with minimal rest in-between to maximize...

Alex Roberts 5 Steps to Building a More Fit & Athletic Body Admit it. You don't want to wait for results. Instead, you want to add size as fast as possible, don't you? It's okay to submit to this desire - you're not alone in the pursuit. Training for aesthetics is part of the equation, but the...

Alex Roberts Is Bodybuilding Making You Lazy? (Includes The Anti-Lazy Program) Are you a lazy bodybuilder? No, I'm not suggesting that all bodybuilders are lazy but many subscribe to the get-big-by-any-means-necessary mentality which sucks you into a self-imposed lifestyle of too much food, too...

What is HGH? HGH is a naturally occurring peptide hormone responsible for skeletal muscle growth and cell production. HGH also affects the metabolism and adipose tissue, causing significant subcutaneous fat loss in individuals with high levels of this hormone. Natural HGH levels are often...

The general population is aware of the risks that anabolic steroids pose, with the media regularly reporting horror stories of men and women abusing PEDs. Despite widespread connotations linking AAS (anabolic-androgenic steroids) to serious illness or death, up to 1 million Brits still take...

Anabolic steroids are often associated with gaining exceptional amounts of muscle hypertrophy and strength, which is medically what they were designed for: treating patients with cachexia (muscle-wasting conditions). Although the sole goal of anabolic steroids is to promote weight gain, we have...

Anavar (oxandrolone) is an oral anabolic steroid created in 1962 to promote lean muscle mass in those suffering from muscle-wasting conditions. The other main objective when formulating Anavar was to create a mild drug with few side effects so women and children could safely take it. In 1964, an...

Trenbolone is an injectable anabolic steroid commonly nicknamed the Monster Steroid in bodybuilding circles. This is in reference to its incredibly powerful nature, producing exceptional results (and equally harsh side effects). Trenbolone’s lipolytic (fat-burning) and anabolic...

What Is Muscle Memory? In bodybuilding, this effect is more literal and fitting to the term – muscle memory. How Muscle Memory Works When a bodybuilder stops lifting weights they will lose muscle mass (roughly 20lbs). However, due to muscle memory, they can regain this amount of muscle when...

5 Tips for Big Arms The following tips are listed in order of importance: 1. Increase Time Under Tension The concept of overtraining in bodybuilding is merely a myth. By this, I am referring to the view of: “Training your arms (or other muscle groups) in the gym for over an hour is...

Below are 50 tried-and-tested tips for hard-gainers and skinny guys wanting to bulk up (and thus increase muscle hypertrophy and strength). 1. Limit your cardiovascular and aerobic activities. Some cardiovascular exercise will help to maintain your aerobic ability during the bulking phase...

Ryan Rodal Shredded Abs Year-Round: Is the Cost Worth It? An overall unhealthy distortion of the bodybuilding lifestyle can be created in today's day and age of social media. Constant images of rock hard abs and sub 5% bodyfat are seen endlessly. People get the perception that fit and healthy...

Andy Yingling Collaborator 10 Ways to Recover Like a Boss From Brutal Workouts There's no such thing as over-training, only under-recovery. If you're going #beastmode in the gym (and you should be), then you must recover like a beast as well. Here are 10 surefire ways those brutal lifting...

Ryan Rodal Weeding Through Workout Splits to Find the Best Choice One of the favorite questions of bros everywhere is, and always will be: "Which workout split should I use?" With so many different options to choose from, how do you determine which split is best suited for your goals? Let's...

Steve Shaw How to Lose Muscle: 4 Ways to Kill Your Gains! It's time to kill your bodybuilding gains. Ain't nobody got time for bigger muscles and shopping for jeans that fit your quads anyhow. Besides, being large and in charge is getting annoying. Bros at the gym won't stop asking you...

Marc Lobliner Red, White, and GAINZ Sleeve-Splitting Arm Workout Big, veiny, ripped, bulging arms. The kind that when you wear a regular shirt, a shirt that looks normal on most guys, it hugs your arms like a scared child holding onto his mom?s leg. The kind that flight attendants touch as you...

Hitting a plateau in your training sucks. You leave no stone unturned with your diet, you've exhausted every one of your tricks in your training tool bag and you?re more consistent than 24-hour political updates. Yet you still find yourself starring down that pesky plateau. Played around with...

Steve Shaw The Great Muscle Building Quiz of Gains! Can You Pass? Sit down. Grab your pencil. It's time to take your final exam. If you pass? The magic world of gains is yours. If you fail? Time to hit the books and research. Every. Damn. Article. Study up, sons and senoritas. This ain't no...

Steve Shaw How to Get Bigger - 25 Muscle Building Laws In 1986 I trained my first skinny guy. His name was Jason, and he was a 127 pound runner. Jason lived on the same floor of my dorm. He watched me transform my physique in only 8 short months. To Jason, this seemed like an impossible feat. I...

Ryan Rodal Top Muscle Building Exercises That Are Performed Incorrectly By nature, bodybuilding and resistance training is one of the most easiest acts to perform. Use a certain muscle group to repetitively lift up and release some metallic object. Not complicated. However, in application...