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…]
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…]
Isolation Exercises Better Than Compound for Mass?
In the last training newsletter, I mentioned that most of the ideal exercises are isolation, or single-joint…
Starting body-part routines with them is not only safer but also more hypertrophic. What?
Am I crazy? Aren’t the mass moves—like barbell squats, bench presses, and rows—the best of the best?… [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…]
Muscle’s Unique Mass Response, Part 2
In the last training newsletter, there was a list of the reasons why contracted-position exercises, like triceps pushdowns and leg extensions, can be just as important as stretch loading for mass in some cases… [Read more…]
A Muscle’s Unique Mass Response, Part 1
Recent studies seem to place stretch-loading and stretch exercises at the top of the mass-building food chain… [Read more…]
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