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The longer I’m in this bodybuilding maze, the clearer it becomes that everyone responds differently due to unique needs.
Sure, there are some basic facts about efficient hypertrophy you should adhere to, like the best mass-building resistance curve on any exercise is hardest at stretch and easiest at contraction… [Read more…]
Rounder delts can make you look wider and your waist look narrower. That’s two aesthetic reasons to get shoulder training right, especially the side head that’s most responsible for those two effects. [Read more…]
“What are these ‘ideal exercises‘ of which you speak?”
I get that a lot—maybe not in those exact words; more like, “WTF you talkin’ ‘bout?”
Biomechanics expert and Mr. Universe Doug Brignole lays out 16 factors that exercises should meet to be in the ideal category. [Read more…]
Lately, I’ve been harping on the perfect resistance curve, mostly because I know the key ideal-exercise factors create efficiency of effort in the gym to build muscle quickly…
At my age, I don’t have time to waste with workouts longer than about 40 minutes 3 days a week. The lifetime finish line is looming… [Read more…]
I’ve whined about only having a bare-bones home gym in a lot of newsletters—50-pound PowerBlock dumbbells, an adjustable bench, and a doorway chinning bar.
The new ebook details how I made the best of that pathetic setup and re-muscled my 62-year-old physique training only 35 minutes 3 times a week. [Read more…]
These days I’m always insisting that you emphasize the ideal exercises for efficient mass workouts.
Those moves have specific characteristics or factors, such as optimal range of motion, ideal resistance curve, and so on (see the new ebook for details). [Read more…]
Beefy forearms are important…
In a short-sleeve shirt, they’re the first thing people notice—unless you have a huge spaghetti stain on the front… [Read more…]
A few newsletters ago we discussed the ideal biceps exercise based on Mr. America and Mr. Universe Doug Brignole’s factors grounded in physics and biomechanics. Now let’s look at the ideal triceps exercise… [Read more…]
We’ve been discussing Mr. America and Mr. Universe Doug Brignole and his biomechanically ideal exercises.
He has 16 factors, basically a checklist, for determining an exercise’s rank. From those 16 Steve extracted his top five that are detailed in the new ebook. [Read more…]
Q: I’m reading your original X-Rep e-book [The Ultimate Mass Workout], and you have the Ultimate Exercises listed for each muscle. For lats, it’s close-, parallel-grip chins. I have a hard time with chins because I weigh around 220 pounds. Can I do them on the pulldown machine instead?
A: Yes, do them on the pulldown machine for now; however, once you’re strong enough, do the chinup-bar version… [Read more…]
