All Entries in the "Body Building" CategoryYou will be amazed at the difference 5 or 10 pounds will make. What am I talking about? I’m talking about unbalanced barbell loading. Normally, you would think loading a barbell with uneven weight would be a mistake and would horribly imbalance the bar, making the exercise dangerous. And, to be honest, if you’re not [...]
The Superset is a very simple concept…basically, you just do two exercises back-to-back, with no rest inbetween! A quick example of this is doing a barbell curl then going directly into a cable curl. Sound simple? It definitely is. But there are many different combinations and ways to use the Superset to make it an [...]
A lot of people who are unhappy with their unhealthy appearance, whether underweight or obese, have spent years going to the gym or performing different outdoor exercise routines in the hope to gain muscle mass and increase body weight.The one thing they can’t be called on is lack of determination. It takes a lot of [...]
The debate as to how long to wait between sets when working out has raged for as long as people have been training. For many beginners, the idea of timing your break between sets doesn’t enter the mind. They do a set. When they’re ready, they do it again. This simplicity gets the job done [...]
Throughout bodybuilding history, there have been a wide variety of posing routines and posers in bodybuilding lore. Bodybuilders like Markus Ruhl, known for his extreme mass and conditioning, aren’t the most graceful guys. Their physiques aren’t all that aesthetic, and they don’t inspire artistic response. They are monsters. They walk onstage and they conquer based [...]
The titles of most diet books typically talk fat: Take the “Fat Smash Diet,” … or… “From Belly Fat to Belly Flat.” Some talk numbers and figures – a lot like bodybuilding magazine features, actually. Books like “The 12-Second Sequence: Shrink Your Waist in Two Weeks” could just as easily be seen in the pages [...]
Isolate different parts of the muscle group you are working on a regular basis for specified work on weak areas and for super-detail. Doing this will allow you to develop that muscle in a more complete and balanced way. It’s also easier to visualize (mind-muscle connection) small pieces of a body part working and boost [...]
A lot of bodybuilders have poor calf development, and many of them blame their genetics for this shortcoming. It’s true some bodybuilders are genetically predisposed to having calves which tie in very high (close to the knee), making adding any sort of size to the very hard. Even at the professional bodybuilding level, Mr. Olympia [...]
As an Irvine Personal Trainer I know that bodybuilding is an “individual” effort that requires each person their own dedication, discipline, and determination to train by themselves at any time and ways needed. Each person is responsible for their own actions, such as the choice of what foods to eat or not, what supplements to [...]
The direct forearm grip training is something that is not all that common for the power lifters in the gym. It is nothing fancy, but what it is, is hard work. And yes, it does take away some time for the more viewable body parts and the training it takes to get the biggest and [...]
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