Bodybuilding Articles

 

How To Increase Muscle Strength

Most people equate muscle size with muscle strength. While it’s true that weaker muscles are smaller than stronger ones, they don’t have Schwarzenegger like monstrosities to be strong...
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How To Get a Six Pack

A flat, ripped, chiseled midsection, or six pack, seems to be on everybody’s wish list. “How to Get a Six Pack” is a multi-million dollar industry...
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Abs Workout for Women

Considering the differences between the bodies of men and women, it isn’t surprising that abs workout for women is markedly different from that of men’s....
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How a single progress scheme could DOUBLE your GAINS

Did you ever hear about the double progress scheme? Chances are good, but probably you don't know the name. Double progress means that you increase the weight for any exercise after you are able to perform a predefined number of reps...
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How a SMALL CHANGE in your rep scheme could BOOST your MUSCLE GAINS

If you are working out like most people, you are using a rep scheme of 6-12 repetitions for muscle mass. You could read it anywhere and this seems to be one of the iron rules in bodybuilding. But following this rule will hold you back from serious gains!
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The Physics Of Weight Lifting - Part 1- Gravity

This is the first of a series of articles that will look to the science of physics to help us make our training more effective. In this article we will look at the simple law of gravity and how this effects lifting weights...
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The Physics Of Weight Lifting - Part 2 - Friction

In part 2 of this series we'll look at friction and how it can affect our training. Friction is defined as - (1) A rubbing of one object or substance against another. (2) The resistance to motion of moving surfaces that touch...
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Mike Mentzer's Heavy Duty Training Advanced Secrets

While many people know the basics of Heavy Duty training, the advanced techniques are known by only a few. The advanced and super advanced techniques were fully researched and tested by Mike in the late 70's...
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Peary Rader's One Day Muscle Blast Program Revisited

In The Rader Master Bodybuilding and Weight Gaining System, Peary told us about a program he developed that could add up to 3/4 of an inch to a trainees arms in one day. The program goes like this...
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Quick Muscle Building – How To Build Muscles In Minutes

This is my write up of a training/supplement program I was on. The total program lasted 9 weeks and in that time I actually gained 20 lbs! I went from 174 to 194...
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Take Your Body To The Next Level - How To Build A Super Impressive Physique

You’ve been trained very hard for some years now. You’ve build up some good muscle size, and your dieting and cardio workouts have given you some decent definition also. But you still feel like something is missing...
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How To Gain Muscle and Burn Fat

This question has been on the minds of many if it's not on yours right now. For this reason, and because I am sick and tired of answering this question over and over, you are going to encounter the simple truth right now.
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Abdominal Fat – Why Isn’t it Going Away?

Let me ask you a question. If you wanted to burn the fat, covering your abdominal muscles, what exercises would you do? Possible answers: 1) A huge amount of abdominal exercises; 2) Compound movements and cardio exercise.
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The purpose of the article series “Fat Loss Supplement” is to find and investigate ways to increase fat loss naturally. In the first article of this series I touched on calcium as a fat loss supplement. Today you will read about the similar benefits of green tea.
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If you are reading this article you either carry some extra weight with you or you have problems keeping the extra weight off. In either case the supplement under current investigation can help you. I will shortly explain why...
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How Much Exercise To Burn Off Foods You Ate?

So, one of your co-workers had a birthday and somebody brought that chocolate cake at the little party at work. You couldn’t resist the temptation… and you had a piece. At the moment you had the first bite you knew that it is going to make you feel guilty for the rest of your day, but nonetheless you finished it…
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Cardiovascular Warm Up Exercises

I see people do it all the time - they come to the gym, put their training clothes on, and head straight to the weights. What’s wrong with that, you'd ask. Well, let me tell you is wrong with it. If you miss to warm up properly the risk of injury that you are facing is quite big.
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How To Conduct a Female Weight Training Program - a Read For Ffitness Trainers And Female Athletes

Different weight training programs are constantly being published in every fitness magazine these days. They are all created to emphasize certain goals, certain body parts, innovative ideas, etc. However, most of them miss to address one important issue. Precisely they don't teach you how to conduct a female training program.
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Natural Ways To Increase Testosterone Bioavailability In Athletes

Being a natural athlete I’ve always sought to find more ways to increase testosterone levels naturally. The question I’ve always asked myself was what are the variables, which determine how much testosterone is boiavailable...
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How Long To Do Cardio For Fat Burning

People always ask me in the gym: how long to do cardio for fat burning. It’s a one sentence question but the answer unfortunately can’t be that short. I’d say that knowing how long to do cardio for fat loss comes after you are clear about how much calories you should eat a day in order to lose fat...
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Overtraining Detection And Prevention

When you went to bed last night, the plan was to go to the gym the next day morning. What happened when you woke up this morning? Why are you still at home? Do you feel worn out? No energy? No desire for resistance training or cardio? Thinking about physical work makes you feel even more fatigued...May be the reason why you feel this way is -- you are overtrained.
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Home Gym Circuit Training Routines

We all know how difficult in might be to make it to the gym after 9 long hours at work. I bet it has happened to you not once or twice. But what do you do when you don’t feel you have the energy to stop by the local gym on your way home? Or may be you don’t have the time for a workout at the gym.
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High Intensity Interval Training and Natural Bodybuilding

It was about six or seven years a go when I first read about High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT for short). Being a natural bodybuilder I immediately new this is something that I should be doing. I gave it a try and since then I haven’t performed a single conventional regular cardio workout...
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