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AskMen.com Pete Sisco |
5 Effective Chest & Arm Workouts |
AskMen.com November 14, 2002 Pete Sisco |
The Best Forearm, Chest Exercises & More What are the best forearm exercises?... Is it possible to gain lean muscle mass while losing body fat at the same time?... When I exercise my chest, I don't really feel a burn in my chest area. What's wrong?... etc. |
AskMen.com October 3, 2002 Pete Sisco |
A One-Month Static Contraction Workout The following is a simplified program that will work for everyone, from those who are new to weightlifting to the more experienced lifter. But make no mistake; this method of training quickly ramps up to ultra high intensity and the effects can be startling. |
AskMen.com August 7, 2003 Pete Sisco |
Top 12 Ways To Improve Your Workouts It's amazing how knowing one or two little workout tricks can energize a stale routine. Your next trip to the gym will be filled with enthusiasm once you know you'll be using a new technique to squeeze more muscle building efficiency out of each exercise. |
AskMen.com John Romaniello |
Drop Sets For Strength In part one of this article, I introduced a technique called Mechanical Advantage Drop Sets. Also known as MADS, this is a type of drop set in which the variable is not the weight but the exercises you perform with that weight. |
AskMen.com Jeff Bayer |
Shock Your Muscles With Supersets One of the biggest reasons you reach a plateau in your workout is that you are doing the same thing over and over again. Surprise your system with "supersets." |
AskMen.com May 2, 2002 Pete Sisco |
Gain Muscle & Avoid Injury There are simple ways to avoid injury and one of them can effectively build muscle simultaneously... |
AskMen.com May 15, 2003 Pete Sisco |
Set A Personal Record In Any Exercise Personal progress provides its own motivation. Few things in the gym provide more positive feedback and personal motivation than setting a personal record on a favorite exercise. |
AskMen.com Jeff Bayer |
Get The Perfect Beach Body If you follow this workout program, you will help increase your muscle strength and get a great-looking upper body that you will be confident to show off during the summer months. |
AskMen.com August 23, 2001 Dwayne Hines II |
Training Outside The Lines Many guys get into a training rut not long after the initial phase of growth, during the first few months of training. How do you get out of this nasty situation? How can you start moving up to a new level of muscularity? Variety... |
AskMen.com Anthony Yeung |
Get Bigger Biceps With A Bodyweight Workout Want to add an inch to your arms? Here's how to do it without ever picking up a weight. |
AskMen.com March 20, 2003 Pete Sisco |
The Essential Bodybuilding Glossary An essential guide to the most commonly used terms in the gym. Take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with them, and you'll feel more comfortable and competent whilst working out. After all, knowledge is power. |
AskMen.com Pete Sisco |
Your 10-Minute Holiday Workout Staying in shape throughout the holiday season is doubly challenging because not only does your normal schedule get disrupted, but offerings of fattening food also become much too hard to resist. |
AskMen.com October 30, 2003 Pete Sisco |
Getting Back To The Gym After Injury If your doctor has cleared you to return to the gym and begin lifting weights, here are some very useful tips that will help you avoid re-injury and minimize the discomfort of getting back into the shape you were in before. |
AskMen.com August 24, 2015 Anthony Yeung |
Adding An Inch To Your Arms Are you ready for your upper arms to grow like weeds? |
AskMen.com December 11, 2003 Pete Sisco |
3 Secrets To Explosive Workouts No two strength workouts should ever be exactly the same. Every exercise should involve a higher intensity of muscular output than the time before. That means you should always be reaching new personal records of heavier weight, more reps or an extra set. |
AskMen.com October 31, 2002 Pete Sisco |
3 Common Bodybuilding Myths: Part II Myth #1: You need high reps for definition and low reps for mass... Myth #2: New muscle gains diminish after 48 hours... Myth #3: For best results, you need to train "instinctively" |
AskMen.com August 5, 2004 Ian Lee |
3 Easy Exercises For Bigger Biceps A workout regime that will blast your biceps: standing barbell curl... seated barbell curl... preacher curl... |
AskMen.com Jeff Bayer |
Smash Your Biceps If there's one muscle group on a man that says you workout, it's your biceps. |
AskMen.com October 16, 2003 Pete Sisco |
14-Day "Jump Start" Program Here's a great routine that will trigger the muscle growth stimulus in your body, improve your aerobic conditioning, and burn a lot of calories. This program is fun because you'll feel new growth in your chest, arms and legs and, because it's only 14 days, it's easy to stick with. |
AskMen.com May 16, 2002 Pete Sisco |
Train Less & Develop Bigger Muscles Want to know what the #1 mistake made by people lifting weights is? This single mistake inevitably causes long training plateaus and frustration that saps their motivation needlessly. It's training with the wrong frequency... |
AskMen.com June 13, 2002 Pete Sisco |
Strength Training For Boxing & Martial Arts One of the secret keys to incredible punching power is knowing how to train your muscles to deliver huge power in the exact range it's most effective: the last inch. |
AskMen.com June 12, 2003 Pete Sisco |
4 Ways To Stay Motivated The greatest workout routine in the world is useless if you don't have the motivation to actually follow through with it. Here are some tips to help you avoid the pitfalls that lead to a lack of motivation, missed workouts and stalled progress. |
AskMen.com September 19, 2002 Pete Sisco |
Build More Muscle In Less Time For the guy who wants maximum results with minimum time invested, an ultra-brief but ultra-intense workout will be performed about as often as he gets a haircut. Anything more is just lifting weights as a busy work hobby. |
AskMen.com August 28, 2015 Anthony Yeung |
Exercise Tweaks Transform your workouts with these game-changing exercise tweaks. |
AskMen.com John Romaniello |
Drop Sets When you're training to build muscle, you learn quickly that everything works but that nothing works forever. |
AskMen.com Jim Carpentier |
Switch To 3 Weekly Total Body Workouts Even if your New Year's resolution to get in shape and transform your physique went south back in February, it's still not too late to maintain or add some serious muscle in time for summer beach and pool outings. |
AskMen.com September 4, 2003 Pete Sisco |
Top 3 Exercises For Adding Muscle Fast As a general rule, it's the exercises that allow you to lift the most weight. These three exercises use the largest muscles in the body, and I'm going to give you some tips on how to make sure you lift the maximum weight possible without even risking injury. |
AskMen.com April 3, 2003 Pete Sisco |
Training When You're Over 40 There's no good reason to deplete ourselves by performing more exercise than necessary to achieve our goals. |
AskMen.com Vince Del Monte |
Why You Don't Need A Gym Membership No gym? No problem - these techniques will show you how to make the most of what you've got, so you have no excuse not to train, anymore. |
AskMen.com August 22, 2002 Pete Sisco |
Muscle Definition, Workout Plateaus & More Muscle definition, or "getting ripped," refers to having your muscles appear more visibly and dramatically. Muscle definition is a function of two factors: 1) percentage of body fat and 2) muscle size. If you want better definition, you have to work on both elements. |
AskMen.com Ian Lee |
Workout From Home Or The Office: Part II This workout is designed to help you tone each major muscle group in your upper body without spending the time and effort of going to the gym. |
AskMen.com May 31, 2002 Pete Sisco |
Get Ripped Muscles In 10 Weeks If you're in the gym trying to develop thick, powerful arms or a thick, powerful chest, why are you grinding away for hours? Why not perform the minimum dose of exercise that will deliver the highest possible intensity? |
AskMen.com December 12, 2002 Pete Sisco |
One-Minute Workout For Skiers & Snowboarders Whether you're a skier or a snowboarder, I have some good news for you: There is a very easy and effective way to increase muscle strength exactly where you need it most. |
AskMen.com Jim Bauer |
Body Parts You Never Train If you want to be on top of your game, your workout should include the following strengthening exercises for commonly forgotten body parts. |
AskMen.com October 5, 2000 Ian Lee |
Tone Up For Rock Hard Triceps Don't get me wrong; building bicep muscles does contribute to achieving huge arms, but it is even more crucial to build your triceps in order to get big and well-defined arms... |
AskMen.com May 16, 2012 Vince Del Monte |
15-Minute Workout This is a workout designed for individuals seeking maximal muscular development and leanness by trashing all the critical growth fibers in one insane 43-rep set on the same body part. It's called the 16-12-25 workout. Yikes! |
AskMen.com September 5, 2002 Pete Sisco |
Train Your Legs For Bigger Overall Muscles Want a bigger, more powerful chest, biceps and triceps? Want "barn-door lats" and "cannonball delts"? Want "six-pack abs" and "bowling-pin forearms"? Proper high intensity leg training can take all of those muscle groups to the next level. |
AskMen.com August 21, 2003 Pete Sisco |
Train Efficiently, Build More Muscle All you have to do to gain muscle mass is make sure that you lift more weight per minute than you did the last time. Even if that maximum stimulus lasts only five seconds, it will trigger growth in the muscle. |
AskMen.com Jeff Bayer |
Essential Leg Training Most guys go to the gym to work their "beach" muscles: their arms, chests and abs. But other muscle groups also need to be included in the workout regime. |
AskMen.com February 5, 2004 Tamar Schreibman |
9 Cardinal Sins Of Weightlifting We're always being told what we should be doing at the gym: go faster, harder, slower; use a medicine ball; buy a band; and the list goes on. But perhaps more important are the things we shouldn't do during a workout. |
AskMen.com Jeff Bayer |
Timeless Exercises Some exercises never go out of style, and are so beneficial they should always be included in your program, no matter what your goals are. |
AskMen.com John Romaniello |
Training For Size: Part 1 When guys attempt to decide on a training program, one of the first questions they ask is: "What's the best set and rep scheme for gaining muscle?" |
AskMen.com February 8, 2001 Ian Lee |
Leg Workout: Part II Hamstrings & Calves In the first part of our leg blasting routine, we covered exercises to help build your glutes and quadricep muscles. In this second part, you'll learn how to develop two more important parts of your legs: the hamstrings and calves... |
AskMen.com Jeff Bayer |
Jedi Workout If you implement certain training principles into your workout, you too could harness the Force in your muscular fitness, and have the physical abilities Jedi possess. |
AskMen.com Jeff Bayer |
Building Bigger Calves Building bigger calves is certainly possible if you take the right training approach. |
AskMen.com July 25, 2002 Pete Sisco |
Bodybuilding Q&A How often should I train?... Isn't Static Contraction Training the same as the old Isometric Training? |
AskMen.com January 22, 2004 Declan Connolly |
Get Maximum Results With Short Circuits During circuit training, you perform a series, or "circuit," of weight-training exercises (or "stations") using low weights and high repetitions with minimal rest between sets, in order to keep the workout intensity -- and your heart rate -- up. |
AskMen.com November 2, 2003 Evan Campbell |
Fitness Top 10: Bicep Exercises If done correctly, these exercises will get you those bulging biceps that you'll be dying to measure in no time. |
AskMen.com September 6, 2001 Ian Lee |
Break Your Plateau Cycle When you first started bodybuilding, you gained mass, you had your initial growth spurts, but now you just can't seem to gain muscle mass no matter how much you work out. If you have been bodybuilding for a while, you know I'm talking about what every bodybuilder dreads: plateaus... |