Ronnie Coleman Interview

Grip Strength Will Help Your Bench

The strongest man is usually not the biggest, or the most sculpted, but has the strongest tendons. In benching much of the tendon strength has to do with having strong forearms and very powerful fingers. In benching the harder you squeeze the bar then the more lockout power you will have. How do I know? Well, take a weight that is about 20lbs below your bench max and try to bench it without squeezing hard. What has just happened? You probably failed or moved it very slowly. Now squeeze the bar as hard as you can and you probably just blasted the weight.

In fact I believe in grip strength so much that I think that just by squeezing the bar harder on all your exercises will end any doubt you might have. If you squeeze the dumbbells, the barbells every time then that alone will help you bench more as you start training heavier in your quest for strength. I know that for me personally I have locked out quadruple weights and injured hands through squeezing techniques. Let’s go over a list of creative exercises to improve your tendon strength to give you that extra edge on your benching power, whether you are bored at someone’s house, working construction or watching television. And remember the forearms are a muscle group that are hard to overtrain. So apply some of these techniques into your routine.
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Six “Little-Known” Muscle Building Tips

So you think you know everything about building muscle? If you have read everything, tried everything and heard everything about muscle building but still resemble the silouette of a Calvin Klien model instead of a buff fitness model than I promise these six ‘little-known’ muscle building tips will accelerate your muscle gains immediately!
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Want More Muscle? Add More Weight To The Bar!

It can’t really be that simple, can it?

With the endless articles, fancy techniques, contradictory debates, special breakthrough methods and lineups of self-proclaimed “muscle building gurus” all claiming to hold the secrets to massive growth in minimum time…

It can’t ALL be pointing to this one ultimate truth, can it?

Yes, there are many subtleties and details that make up a winning muscle building workout plan… But the simple fact of the matter is that consistently adding more weight to the bar over time REALLY IS the bottom line goal of any effective training routine.

Take all of the most basic compound exercises (such as squats, deadlifts, bench presses, rows, chin-ups, dips and overhead presses), focus on increasing your poundages as quickly as possible… and that ALONE will yield the greatest muscle building effect from your entire workout plan possible.

Add a good 150 pounds to your deadlift, 125 pounds to your squat and 100 pounds to your bench press, and I guarantee that as long as your nutrition plan is properly in place, you’ll come back significantly bigger, thicker and more muscular than you’ve ever been in your entire life.
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Natural Pro Bodybuilders Daily Meal Schedule

Name: Mo Mendez

Height: 5′-10″

Weight: 230lbs

Hometown:Bloomfield, CT

Biggest Recent bodybuilding Title: Musclemania Superbody Pro

Number of meals/snack you eat a day: 4 meals, 2 shakes
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Do You Hate Your Job?

One of my clients does.

And it is killing him.

Literally.

At the very least, it is contributing to depression, frustration, and inflammation - hitting him both physically and mentally.

So not only does this stress beat him up at work, but in the gym too.

Work stress prevents him from losing fat, and contributes to the pain in his knees and back.
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Cardio Myths and Better Routines

The Importance of Physical Variability in Cardio Exercise
Are you a cardio junkie? Everyone seems to think that “cardio” is the best way to get in shape and lose body fat. I’m going to show you with this article why I disagree!

It is quite common to hear fitness pros, doctors, and other health professionals prescribe low to moderate intensity aerobic training (cardio) to people who are trying to prevent heart disease or lose weight. Most often, the recommendations go something like this:

“Perform 30-60 minutes of steady pace cardio 3-5 times/week maintaining your heart rate at a moderate level”
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Bodybuilding Mass Training Tactics Part #1

In this article, I will start presenting a series of routines that when performed in the sequence in which I present them are guaranteed to bring you the results that you are looking for.

Our workout parameters are going to be determined by the phase we are in. There are going to be three phases that we will be repeating over and over again. The first week is an Active Recovery Phase. This phase will only be a 1 week long phase in which we will only train with weights twice a week on a full body routine.

After this week, the next three weeks are going to be a high volume phase with short rest periods in between sets. We’ll call this phase the Loading Phase. After this phase we will do 4 weeks of higher intensity work (heavier weights) with longer periods of rest in between sets. We will refer to this phase as the Growth Phase. The logic is the following:
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Bodybuilding Mass Training Tactics Part #2

In part #1 of mass training tactics, we talked about how to properly cycle your training in order to assure continuous gains in muscle size and strength. We discussed the importance of having Active Recovery Phases coupled with Loading and Growth Phases. This month our focus will be on how to properly implement a Growth Phase.

Like we previously mentioned, during the Growth Phase the body is not stressed by volume. This time the stimuli for growth is heavy weights.
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Simplifying the Bench Press

One of the biggest mistakes people make when trying to get their bench max up is training with lots of sets and reps! Strength gains come very easy, and so do personal records, as long as you keep the reps down and weight up while attacking your weak points on the bench press. I remember when I was younger; I thought I knew everything about Big Benching. Many people including myself have discovered that doing lots of reps and sets and eating clean will help you attain size and definition which will impress some women, (they all have their own style) but you won’t get strong. You will only be able to dream of what it would be like to move a big weight.
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