Q: I’ve been doing most of my exercises standing. I like standing dumbbell curls instead of sitting. I even do my lat pull-ins standing. I figure that it helps me burn more calories by forcing my entire body to work, like my legs. Do you think standing during my exercises will help me get leaner? [Read more…]
Mass Re-solutions
I’m not one for making New Year resolutions, but I do like to reflect on things like my workout and vow to implement tactics that have worked well in the past… [Read more…]
Merry-Go-Round Mass Workout, Pt. 1
I was talking to my fireman son-in-law about the direct-indirect concept that was the subject of past newsletters…
With that, you train a muscle directly first, with the ideal exercise using the STX method followed by an add-on move. That gives you short-rest mass effects. [Read more…]
Moment of Bodybuilding Zen 235: Arnold Gets Schooled
You can see the disappointment on Arnold’s face as he finds out that the Women’s Studies class is not what he imagined. Luckily, he attended the first class wearing pants… [Read more…]
Deload Week to Grow More Muscle
Q: You used to talk about taking a reload week after every four weeks of hard training. Do you still subscribe to that? I use the fifth week to do low-intensity workouts to insure full recovery, then I go back to intense ones for four more weeks. Works great. [Read more…]
Ideal-Exercise-Only Workout for the Most Mass?
Q: I just read your newsletter on Position-of-Flexion [ideal exercise plus stretch- and contracted-position exercises]. I thought the natural strength curve of muscles is hard at the stretch and then tailing off at contraction. Doug [Brignole] said the ideal exercise is all you need. If others were beneficial, wouldn’t he have said so? [Read more…]
Your Muscle-Recovery Tightrope
With almost 50 years of training experience, I’ve come to realize that incomplete recovery is the #1 roadblock to achieving the fastest hypertrophy your genetics will allow… [Read more…]
Less Time, More Mass?
Q: I’m making new gains with [STX and the Old Man, Young Muscle workout], but I’ve read that longer rests between sets is better for mass. I think that’s wrong in my case. You say that 20-second rests between sets is like extending the set. My question is, would it be even better to do a drop set [reduce the weight] with no rest between? [Read more…]
The Ultimate Quad-Mass Workout (no barbell squats)
You saw a couple of examples of the new Postions-of-Flexion mass method applied to chest—without barbell bench presses, which are inefficient…
Remember, the new POF is no longer midrange + stretch + contracted; it’s now the ideal exercise + the missing positions. [Read more…]
More Muscle Mass with POF
All of the latest research is compelling: It appears that muscles need variation in loading at different positions, such as stretch and peak contraction for fastest and fullest development…
Yes, many recent studies show stretch-loaded exercises as superior mass builders to contracted-position moves, but… [Read more…]
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