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Bodybuilding Contest – Trials and Triumphs
Last time we spoke, I was 12 Weeks away from my bodybuilding contest. At that time, I was pretty satisfied with how things were going. As I’ve said, staying at my lower level of
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Contest Prep – My First Couple of Weeks
I’ve mentioned in previous blogs how important it is to stay relatively lean in the off- season – for a variety of reasons. One of the major ones (to me) is that you don’t
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Contest Prep – The Week Before…
As I write this (at the end of April), I am less than one week away from starting my 16-week journey into hard-core contest prep. I’ve decided to give my muscles, joints, central nervous
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A Date is Set…I Make My Return on August 18th
As you may have been reading, up to now my blog has been primarily about different ideas and techniques to make your workouts more effective. I can already hear what some are saying…”so, do
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Intensity Techniques – Part #6
Another blood pumping, high-intensity technique you can use is a little something called “X-Reps”. Originally invented by Steve Holman and Jonathan Lawson of Ironman Mag fame, “X-Reps” are essentially partial reps usually done at
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Intensity Techniques – Part #2…Supersets
In Part #1 of our “Intensity Techniques” blogs, I spoke about dropsets as a way to either jump start or maximize your current training routine. In this blog, we’ll tackle another great and effective
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Key to Building Muscle #1 – Intensity
We have all been there at one time or another…just going through the motions at the gym. Maybe we’ve got something else on our mind. There’s the mortgage, our kids, or maybe even our
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Setting Goals. Visualizing Success.
I was about 13 the first time I stepped into a gym. That’s when I first got hooked on working out. Sure, it started out as wanting to “get big” so chicks would notice
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