Building muscle without constantly adding lifting heavier weight is not only possible but can lead to impressive gains in muscle size and strength. While progressive overload—gradually increasing the amount of weight lifted—is a common approach in muscle building, there are several other effective strategies that stimulate hypertrophy (muscle growth) without increasing load. This article will...
Want to know how to get bigger biceps? Biceps training seems straightforward compared to training other muscle groups, but, is it really? Every man wants the biggest, baddest, biceps possible, yet they seem to get their training methods wrong, leading to poor results. Â Failing to execute exercises correctly or failing to mix-up the variation in...
You may be aiming to increase the strength and size of your back. The back is a large grouping of muscles that takes a lot of effort and determination to strengthen and grow. It often takes high volume training to be able to sufficiently stimulate the muscle group. This means that you will have to...
There comes a point in training where your muscle seems to just stop growing. No matter how hard you try or think you try, you just don’t seem to get to the next level in your training, you don’t improve at all, you don’t grow. Progress at this point can reverse for many people who...
There are some common mistakes that are made when building the chest up. They are repeated far too often and yet correcting them will make a huge impact on your overall mass and strength development. We have set out the some of the most common chest building mistakes that people make in the gym. They...
Are you are stronger in one particular arm than other? Do you feel as though one arm isn’t responding to training the same as the other? These are common problems faced by almost every person who weight trains with the intention to increase their mass and strength. Common development problems that many people face are...
Are you experiencing slow biceps growth and development? If you are not blessed with good genetics, building your biceps can be a tedious process giving little results in either mass or strength development. Most of the time, people fail to execute the technique in the proper form – which hiders the rate of growth significantly....
You often see gym members who have strict routines and training sessions where they come in many times a week performing the same exercises for the same number of reps, the same number of sets, and the same amount of weight. Nothing changes and neither do they. If their goal is to further develop their...
Getting in a proper gym session can be hard even on the best of days. We should all, however, be exercising on a regular basis – planning your workouts is key to maintain structure in your hectic lifestyles. There are at times we simply cannot get to the gym, and for this reason, it’s always...
Many of you look at grip training as a secondary requirement when in the gym, sporadically including it into your regime, often at the end of your training session, or in some instances, there is no grip strength training included in any of your sessions, at all. You may be approaching grip training the wrong...