Optimal Leverage Extended Sets: A Great Method to Boost Hypertrophy
The quest for hypertrophy has led to many methods to make “the pump” extend longer. From a more scientific point of view, recruiting different motor units for the pool and extending the training...
View ArticleBoosting Shoulder Size with Boyer Coe
As a teenager, I was a big fan of Boyer Coe, he displayed fully split biceps as he had extremely low body fat. A few years ago IFBB pro Boyer Coe visited me in Colorado to start training him.What an...
View ArticleCharles R Poliquin’s Library: Insane Training
Want to inject variety and progress in your workouts? Here is an excellent book to buy: Insane Training I get emails on a regular basis to get to review or purchase books on strength training. One that...
View ArticleIncrease Your Bench Press Performance TODAY !
I get this type of question often : I am training for the city’s SWAT team, I can do fairly well on the aerobic tests, but I have neglected my bench press performance, I am now stuck 130 kilos. I need...
View ArticleDeveloping Mid-Back Thickness
High Dumbbell Rows: This is a Vince Gironda exercise which he taught to Mohamed Makkawy (1972 IFBB Mr. Universe, two-time runner-up at the Mr. Olympia, and multi-grand prix champion), who told me about...
View ArticleA Forgotten Favorite – One-Arm Dumbbell Table Curls
For great arm development, we have to think past just modern-age, glossy muscle mags; these sources have some value, but so do the classics. Let’s look to the heroes of old, in arm wrestling, to guys...
View ArticleA Great Method to Increase Pec Size
Here a great trick I learned from him to put mass on the pecs In the early nineties, I was very fortunate to meet Denver base exercise genius Jerry Telle, who had developped many methods to increase...
View ArticleThe Two Keys Lifts to Bigger Stronger Triceps – Updated
Can you predict how big your triceps can get? In my experience, yes. There are two predictor lifts for this. You can do as many triceps pushdowns and cable extensions as you want, you will never have...
View ArticleBringing Out Detail in the Upper Back
Without a doubt, nothing will ever beat chins/pull-ups and free weight rows in developing a large and thick upper back. Especially if your lats have as much meat on them as a fly has on its wings....
View ArticleA Great Routine for Upper Pec Hypertrophy
Today, we have IFBB pro Cynthia Benoit doing a routine that aims at recruiting the clavicular portion of pectoral muscles. This part of the pec is better known in gym talk as the upper pecs. As seen in...
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