I read a lot of information about weight training and fitness training and most of it seems to fall into one of two categories. The first category I can liken to the herd mentality, the second category I liken to the innovators. It seems this pattern is inherent in all aspects of human behaviour, and [...]
I know it sounds completely bonkers, especially when the conventional wisdom dictates that one should do cardiovascular exercise to lose weight, but it does actually make sense.
If you were to follow an all over body workout three times a week, you would see strength and size gains as well as fat loss. By exercising with [...]
This is a debate that has raged for decades, in fact since the 1970’s when the first isolation machines were developed that used cams to effect the intensity of the workout in different parts of the movement, namely Nautilus machines, which have since been emulated by almost every gym equipment company.
I’ve never used any Nautilus [...]
It’s fairly common knowledge that to make either gains in strength or muscle size, you need to consistently overload the muscles. But what is muscle overload and how do you achieve it during a workout?
Muscle overload is when the muscle ceases to work anymore, also known as failure. This will happen toward the end of [...]
I’m a big believer in high intensity weight training and I am always searching for new ways to train my muscles. I’ve been a big fan of the heavy duty principles advocated by Mike Mentzer, but I also like variety. As such, I’ve decided to compile a list of various different heavy duty techniques that I [...]
To increase the size of your muscles, you need to overload them, this is not exactly a well kept secret, but what is perhaps not so widely known, is that there are various ways you can overload the muscles. What I aim to do is explain two types of muscle overload training that I use [...]
I’m a big believer in value for money, which is why I buy all my supplements from the bulk discount supplement suppliers and mix my own pre and post workout shakes. I figure I can save in the region of £100 a month by doing this, which is a significant saving.
I was talking to one of [...]
I recently bought some fine scottish oats from a well known bulk discount supplement store for about £2 a kilo. This is reasonably cheap, but when it came to using them in my pre-workout protein shakes, I found that they didn’t dissolve into the water any better than if I had simply ground them myself [...]
I’ve been using the heavy duty training principles that were pioneered by Mike Mentzer back in the 1970’s for the last six weeks or so, and as such have decided to write up a quick guide to what I’m talking about in my regular training journal posts.
To summarise quickly, heavy duty training principles centre around [...]
Once you reached adulthood, your skeleton will have stopped growing, and as such it is impossible to widen the various bones that give you that width across your shoulders. However, this does not mean that you cannot widen your shoulders, you can, but it will be through increasing the amount of muscle there is around [...]
