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You may have seen some bodybuilders say to stop analyzing your workouts—just do plenty of sets on the big exercises, and you’ll grow.
That may work if you’re young and/or on anabolic drugs. But as you age, you must get more analytical to continue making progress as well as avoid injury… [Read more…]
In the last training newsletter I said that volume, intensity, frequency and choosing the correct exercises are all factors governing damage that produces overtraining… [Read more…]
I’ve been discussing high intensity vs. a more volume-oriented mass-building approach, and how a downshift week can work wonders for allowing the body’s recovery ability to catch up and grow past previous levels. [Read more…]
Q: I feel as though I need to train all of my sets to failure to get a good muscle-building workout. In Old Man Young Muscle, you take all of your sets to failure, but you’ve backed off of that. Why? [Read more…]
Q: The Old Man Young Muscle ebook has been a godsend for me. It opened my eyes on so many levels. I’m in my 50s and have been a fan of your Positions-of-Flexion method for many years. It’s precision gave me amazing gains when I was younger without overtraining. My question is: I want to go back to using three-exercise POF for most muscles, but I think that might require more recovery at my age. How should I implement POF without overtraining? [Read more…]
With today’s quote, I want to stay in the realm of stretch overload for superior muscle growth… [Read more…]
Q: You said that maybe doing sets with a slow negative on each rep causes too much damage and can impair growth. But don’t studies show that lifting in one second and lowering in three seconds on all sets is best for mass?
A: My point is that a 1/3 tempo is the best rep speed for a few of your sets for each muscle; however… [Read more…]
Yesterday I listed the major factors that cause damage… [Read more…]
Yesterday I mentioned the big secret to fast muscle growth: achieving the right stimulation-trauma balance consistently.
Your goal is to train a muscle again right after damage has been repaired and supercompensation (growth) has occurred. If you train too soon or too long after, you won’t grow much if at all. [Read more…]
What is the big secret to fast muscle growth? No, it’s not steroids—although you can do a lot of things wrong and grow like a weed if you’re on drugs.
I’m talking about clean bodybuilders who use only supplements like protein, vitamins, minerals, creatine, etc. [Read more…]
