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Power Posture Jacks Your Mass and Testosterone

Many bodybuilders live by the “no pain, no gain” credo. But some types of pain can smother hypertrophy.

In fact, one minor nagging ache derailed Steve’s muscle-building progress for months…

Steve was having neck pain. It was low-grade, throbbing, and consistent—so much so that he had trouble sleeping and even got frequent headaches.

In the gym, it affected almost every exercise. It wasn’t so severe that he couldn’t train—it was just annoying enough to feel it on almost every rep of every exercise.

And that type of low-grade pain derails focus and intensity, which means less muscle stimulation at every workout.That’s not good.

He thought he had pulled a muscle or pinched a nerve and that it would eventually heal. It didn’t…

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Should You Skip Triceps Work?

Q: I was reading that because most bodybuilders do a lot of pressing, they shouldn’t do much direct triceps work. I do bench presses and incline presses for chest and overhead presses for shoulders, so isn’t that enough work for my triceps? I’m drug-free, so I don’t want to overtrain them.

A: Two things to consider:

1) MRI studies show that bench presses and overhead presses do hit the triceps, but mostly the medial and lateral heads; in other words, the bulkiest section of the triceps, the big long head, is almost totally neglected. [Read more…]

Boost Your T Naturally = Muscle Size Surge

Q: You’ve said high-rep leg work can increase testosterone. Will the first high-rep set on each exercise in the Anabolic Reload STX workouts boost T even more?

A: It appears that reason high-rep leg work boosts testosterone is due to heavy breathing, big-muscle stimulation, growth-fiber activation, and muscle burn… [Read more…]