Best for Boulder Shoulders

Everyone wants delts like Phil Heath, but if you don’t have the genetics to build boulder shoulders, we now have scientific proof showing which exercises are best for getting—and keeping—them. Researchers wanted to record the EMG activity of the three portions of the deltoid (anterior, middle, and posterior) in eight different exercises. Subjects performed the free-weight bench press, Smith machine shoulder press, pec deck, reverse pec deck,...

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10 Quick Tips to Build Mass

Muscle mass is the straw that stirs the drink in the sport of bodybuilding. Talk all you want about symmetry, shape and definition, but in the final analysis, muscle mass is the defining element of a physique. The mass building equation has three components: a correct diet strategy, hardcore training and high tech supplementation. It;s not rocket science, but there are tricks to it, nonetheless.To save you time and trouble, I've complied 10 tips...

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7 Sacred Rules for Packing on Muscle Weight You Should Never Break

Eat at least five times a day, every two to three hours.  You must keep your system saturated with amino acids and glycogen from protein and carb sources, respectively, if you want to push muscle growth to abnormal levels. You  never know when your body will need these precious nutrients. What's more, not eating every few hours can cause the starvation mechanism to kick  in,  which  signals...

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10 Biggest Nutritional Mistakes of Bodybuilders

This article was featured in Muscle & Fitness, December  issue. This is a view on what are the biggest mistakes that bodybuilders do in terms of nutrition.       Larry Scott, the first Mr. Olympia, remarked in 1965 'Bodybuilding is 90% nutrition.' Shawn Ray in 1993 echoed the sentiment: 'The weights, the gym, the training, I can do that part in my sleep; it's fun and relatively easy. It's the other stuff, the dieting...

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5 Ways to Eat for Strength

If you train like a strongman, you need to eat like one. Use these 5 tips to fuel your body for your crazy bouts with the iron (or Atlas stones).You'd probably like to think that lifting big weight is simply a matter of big muscles—that if you have hulking lats, you can row a barbell loaded with clanking plates until next Thursday. However, if you're not fueling your body properly, you'll find out in a hurry just how shortsighted that philosophy...

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The Real Secret To Building Muscle And Burning Fat

Let me tell you, if there is one question that I get in loads on a daily basis it's about quickly gaining lean muscle mass. People really want to know the "secret" to building a large, muscular body and want to know how to do it NOW!Most people are simply surprised by the answer I give them.Really, it's no secret and in this business, you have to keep everything simple. If you can keep it simple and follow it on a consistent basis, your going to...

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