The Problem: You May Not Be Working The Entire Length of The Muscle Having good form is key to long-term muscle development. However, many people fail to identify their poor execution of movements when performing an exercise. This is not only the case for beginners but, for experienced performers too. A gym instructor’s basic instructions to...
There are positives to negatives! Have you ever considered training negatively? And No… I don’t mean with little optimism. You may not have come across the term before and if you have it’s a training tactic that could be implemented into you training regime more often. Negative training, also known as eccentric training is focused on the...
There is often a lot of confusion in weight training, with people thinking that high-rep low-weight training will tone your muscles and low-rep high-weight training will increase muscle mass, however, both of these are not particularly right. We are going to put this straight so that you understand how to effectively train for the outcome...
They are the one muscle that almost every man will workout, especially over legs. A “vanity muscle” we could say. It is often the muscle that we first exercise when we pick up a weight for the first time in our lives…you know, the bicep curl, we have all done it! It is, of course, the...
It’s important to experiment in the gym. Many are reluctant to try out new techniques or workout regimes through fear of looking stupid in the gym, but this shouldn’t stop you. Most if not all seasoned gym enthusiasts experiment with their techniques and workout programmes. It’s one of the most important aspects to improve your...
Your workouts are hard and frequent but you still fall short of reaching your fitness goals. The truth is your workouts may not be as effective as you first thought. While your training sessions may be packed full of exercise routines, sets, and reps, they may not be actively engaging the target muscle to the fullest....
The Core Exercises To Building A Bigger Chest Start with the bench press, this should be the form the core of your chest building exercises as this is a multi-joint exercise and a compound exercise. You can either do the classic barbell bench press or a dumbbell press instead if it feels more comfortable....
If you’ve ever left the gym feeling bigger, tighter, and more defined than when you walked in—you’ve experienced the pump. It’s one of the most satisfying parts of training. Muscles feel fuller, stronger, and visibly more pronounced. But what actually causes it? And more importantly—does it really help you build muscle? What Is The Pump?...
Should I Be Using Free Weights or Machines? You step into the gym and you find yourself among an array of unusual apparatus. If you are new to the gym you may not really know what they do, how to use the, and what body parts they are supposed to workout. Even long-standing gym...
Body Types Having a good understanding of your body type is helpful for you to reach your fitness goals. If you haven’t worked out already, there is more than one body type that men conform to. To be exact, there are three broad body type men can be identified with, however, they may, in fact,...