Weight training should be very demanding on the muscles and therefore you need to give yourself time to recover well between working different muscles. This is why we split weight training workouts. The basic split is a push / pull…
Strength Training
Strength training is a vital part of fitness. Building muscle is vital for improving athletic performance. It also boosts metabolism which means you burn calories quicker. Weight training routines and bodyweight workouts are provided.
How To Build Stronger Legs – 3 Strength Exercises
It is very easy to forget to work your lower body in the gym. For many people the focus is on biceps, chest and abs to make the upper body look good for when you take your shirt off on…
Forearm Strength Training Tips – Wrist Curls and Wrist Rolling
The forearm is an often neglected upper-body muscle, but it is responsible for a vice-like grip, crucial in both confident corporate handshakes and grappling and clawing in martial arts, or when you are required to open a jar.
Want To Get Really Beefed Up?
Have you ever wondered what it means to want to get “beefed up”? Well, it is more obvious than you may think, and it also is very relevant to the bodybuilding world, although not so relevant to athletics and weight…
German Volume Training – Old School Approach to Bodybuilding
The current fashion in bodybuilding and weight training is to workout with heavier weights and to do fewer repetitions, generally in the range of 5-10 reps per set with around 15 reps for each exercise (usually 5 sets of 5…
How To Train for Muscular Strength, Size and Power
We always strive to provide the clearest and most accurate information possible when it comes to fitness training. We have recently been scouring publications on health, and specifically sports science and weight training research papers, to help determine once and…
Weight Training Intensity or Volume for Bigger Muscles?
Bodybuilding has been a mainstream sport and fitness activity for several decades now, however there is still a debate over the best way to lift weights to build the biggest muscles. Some people believe that you should lift less for more muscle, and some say lift more. But what does this mean?
Triceps Training – the Key to Bigger Arms
To work the triceps efficiently, you need to work the long, medial and lateral heads of the muscle. The triceps involve small muscles, so high repetitions can lead to over training. Limit a workout to 8-12 sets, split between three or four different exercises.
Weight Training Push & Pull Split Routine
Once you start weight training more intensively it becomes essential to split your routines into more than one session per week. This is to avoid overtraining, which occurs when repeatedly exercising your muscles before they have fully recovered.
Splitting the routine this way allows more regular training, as although the day after training your pushing muscles are still recovering, you can utilise and train the pulling muscles.
How To Get a 6 Pack With The Peter Andre Workout And Diet Plan
Peter Andre’s 6 pack used to be pretty famous, but then it disappeared for a while along with the rest of him. He has done his first come back tour and now has his own reality TV show (Peter Andre:…
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Bodybuilding Workouts
Arnold Schwarzenegger was certainly the greatest bodybuilder of his time, and will be remembered as one of the greatest bodybuilders of the 20th Century. His movie career has immortalized his body in a way that no other world class bodybuilder…
Mike Mentzer’s High Intensity Weight Training
Mike Mentzer did not invent High Intensity Weight Training, but he made it popular. During his time in the military, while also doing his bodybuilding training the old fashioned way (very long training sessions with many sets and hundreds of reps)…
Sylvester Stallone / Rocky Balboa Strength Workouts
Sylvester Stallone is one of modern cinema’s great action heroes. He first shot to fame in Rocky in 1976, and then continued his success through the Rocky franchise as well as the Rambo series, which started with the drawing of…
Back Building Exercises
The back is so often neglected. People focus on building biceps, chest and abs, but forget that the back is key to many exercises that help to grow the other target areas. A strong back is essential also to develop…
Bicep Curl Workouts for Bigger Arms
Biceps are possibly the easiest muscle to build and they are rarely concealed under a layer of subcutaneous fat either. Big biceps can be both functional and aesthetic. So, how is it done? What is the best way to beef…
Push Ups / Press Ups – Bodyweight Strength Workouts
Push ups (a.k.a. press ups) are one of the core bodyweight exercises. They are often overlooked by people looking to improve strength and conditioning, even though they are the staple exercise in the military and martial arts school. Push ups can strengthen the back, shoulders, triceps and forearms. Push ups are common in both traditional Eastern exercises as well as Western fitness routines.