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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...

Alex Roberts 14 Irrefutable Laws Of Muscle Building Somewhere along the line, adding muscle size to your frame has been partnered with the belief that you must gorge on everything and anything in sight. What we've forgotten is that the bodybuilding and physique movement was birthed out of a...

Whenever the word "form" comes up it always sparks huge debate with crowds being divided on opinion. One half of the crowd will exclaim that your form should be textbook perfect whereas the other half will be more rugged about it. My own form often gets called into question when I post training...

Just a few decades ago, the Mr. America and Mr. Universe winners trained a lot differently from what you see today in the bodybuilding and physique pursuits. Sure, progressive overload is a given. But, well-built physiques that were shown and go was the hallmark of yesteryear's muscle-men. Old...

Ryan Rodal How to Build Muscle by Increasing the Mind Muscle Connection In the world of bodybuilding the focus always seems to be on common topics such as progressive overload, programming, and optimization. Adding more weight or increasing more reps over time will improve your strength and...

David Groscup How to Build Muscle Mass Fast - Using High Intensity Workouts Let's face it. The main reason we train with weights - grinding out reps workout after workout - is to add mass to our physiques. Sure it's great to be in better shape and ripped, but there's nothing like looking in the...

Nick Ludlow Trisets - Unleashing Their Power to Build More Muscle Are you struggling to gain muscle? Has your endurance and strength hit a plateau? Do you find yourself unable to lose those last few pounds of stubborn body fat? Listen up because trisets might be the ticket for your one-way trip...

Ryan Rodal The 6 Biggest Workout Mistakes Holding Back Your Progress We see it at the gym all the time. Poor form. Bad technique. Improper movement patterns. Commonly known as SNAP CITY. While very few individuals practice perfect form 100% of the time, we should all strive for constant...

If you want to build a back so thick it looks like you could wrestle a grizzly bear (or at least haul in every grocery bag in one trip), your pull-day workouts need to go beyond the basics. Sure, lat pulldowns and barbell rows are solid, but repeating the same old pull day exercises will only...

Robert Schinetsky Rhabdomyolysis Primer for Lifters and Athletes There's a natural "high" that sets in when pushing yourself to the absolute limits in the gym or on the field. Something about busting through plateaus and testing the boundaries of physical fitness is flat out fun and borderline...

The 3x10 method you used in high school football can only work for so long. When you're a newbie to the iron, anything pretty much works. You don't have to get complex in your approach. Just lift more weight and do more reps. This is fine, until it doesn't work anymore. As your training...

Andy Yingling Collaborator Isometric Exercises - Why You Need to Take Them Seriously Isometric exercises (commonly just referred to as isometrics) are exercises during which neither the angle of your joints nor the length of your muscles change during contraction. With compound and isolation...