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A blog of my training and nutrition in relation to bodybuilding, with useful posts about different training routines and nutritional advice.
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Full Body Workouts – Are They A Good Idea?
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...
Lift Weights To Lose Weight
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 w...
Free Weights vs Weights Machines
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 si...
How To Overload Muscles During A Workout
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 w...
Muscle Overload
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 mu...
How To Widen Your Shoulders
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, bu...
Weights advice from a Beast!
No, not me. I don’t qualify for that title yet. I am referring to this huge bloke in the GNC nutrition store near where I work. He clearly knew what he was talking about as he was massive and toned. Anyway, these are the summaries of what we di...
Body Building Techniques That Work
There are so many different ways to train when lifting weights, and usually they all have their merits. However, if you want to build muscle, then you need to be doing specific body building exercises, or if you will, follow body building techniques ...
The benefits of having a training partner
I have been doing my weight training sessions by myself for the past few months, and while I enjoy it for the most part, I can see the benefits of training with a partner. When I was younger, during my teenage years to be precise, I used to workout w...
