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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.   |
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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. |
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Pete Sisco |
5 Effective Chest & Arm Workouts |
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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. |
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August 8, 2002
Pete Sisco |
Add One Inch To Your Arms In 3 Workouts Every guy wants bigger arms. There really is no body part that says "big and powerful" as clearly and obviously as a big pair of python arms. |
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October 2, 2003
Pete Sisco |
Getting Back To The Gym What time is it? It's time to get back to the gym after your too-long absence. And when you return to the gym after a long absence, it's important to pay special attention to a few things. |
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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... |
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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. |
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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. |
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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" |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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... |
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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. |
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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. |
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January 23, 2003
Pete Sisco |
Work Out With Your Woman Here is the real magic bullet that women are missing by staying on the aerobic mats instead of pumping iron: Body transformation through new muscle growth. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Jeff Bayer |
Arnold Schwarzenegger Workout If you haven't had a chance to pick up his book, here are the basics of the Arnold Schwarzenegger workout to get you started. |
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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." |
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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? |
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John Romaniello |
Training For Size: Part 3 Over the last two installments of this series, I have shared some basic and intermediate training protocols with you. |
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November 13, 2003
Pete Sisco |
Training Opposing Muscle Groups Stretching and strengthening muscles on both sides, sometimes referred to as antagonistic or opposing muscle groups, is of utmost importance. |
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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! |
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February 6, 2003
Pete Sisco |
Heavy vs. Light Workouts Ever been in the gym and heard someone say, "I'm taking it easy today; yesterday was my 'heavy' day"? Those words point to a plethora of misconceptions and false premises that thwart maximum muscle growth and can even lead to a loss of strength and mass. |
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August 28, 2015
Anthony Yeung |
Exercise Tweaks Transform your workouts with these game-changing exercise tweaks. |
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October 31, 2015
Myles Worthington |
30-Minute Workouts If you are pressed for time, these 30-minute workouts will leave you breathless. |
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February 20, 2003
Pete Sisco |
A "Natural High" Workout One of the easiest ways to get your body to release large doses of endorphins into your system is by engaging in relatively intense exercise. |
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Jeff Bayer |
Smash Your Biceps If there's one muscle group on a man that says you workout, it's your biceps. |
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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? |
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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?" |
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Pete Sisco |
Precision Training - What's Your Power Factor? High intensity and progressive overload, the two indispensable conditions of muscular hypertrophy, can be measured mathematically. |
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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. |
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January 15, 2016 |
Increase Your Deadlift Five tried-and-true tips to add serious weight to your deadlift. |
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March 6, 2003
Pete Sisco |
Burn More Fat With Aerobic Exercise Aerobic training and strength training are the yin and yang of the exercise world. They are two fundamentally different concepts that meet in a "harmony of opposites." |
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June 27, 2002
Pete Sisco |
Build Ab Muscles Fast Here's how you can rationally train your abs to their absolute maximum limit of development using everyday gym equipment. |
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March 3, 2005
Jim Carpentier |
7 Weight-Training Methods To Break Plateaus Methods that have been used in the weightlifting world for several years and are guaranteed to help you escape that rut, overcome future plateaus, and energize your workouts. |
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Muscle Growth Hacks You should follow these 6 muscle growth hacks in order to get the same results with minimal effort and in the smallest amount of time -- while keeping your body and muscles healthy and safe. |
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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. |
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April 5, 2001
Ian Lee |
Bodybuildinng For Beginners The following is a review of some of the fundamentals for a successful weight training routine... |
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John Romaniello |
Drop Sets When you're training to build muscle, you learn quickly that everything works but that nothing works forever. |
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Evan Campbell |
Top 10 Effective Weight Training Tips Whether you've been working out religiously for years or have recently jumped on the workout bandwagon, the following tips will help you reap the maximum results from your weight training sessions. |
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November 9, 2015
K. Aleisha Fetters |
Quick Workout Fixes Ten ways to get more out of your workout. |
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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. |
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Jim Carpentier |
Bodybuilding Q&A: Six-Packs & More What's the best approach to develop six-pack abs?... What are good pre-workout and post-workout meals?... Besides the bench press, what other exercises increase chest size?... What's the best way to gain muscle mass?... Should I run before or after lifting weights?... If you can do only one exercise, what should it be?... |
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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... |
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Anthony Yeung |
Effective Fitness Programming Follow these essential rules to build a fitness program that actually works for you. |
