Sunday, 26 October 2014

Fierce Forearms

If you want to get strong and add a ton of mass, you need to build powerful forearms. You’ll squeeze your weights harder, engage more muscles, and generate more force. Over time, you’ll increase your numbers on exercises like the bench press, deadlift and barbell row, and you’ll boost your overall strength and muscle mass, too.   We’ll show you the best exercises to quickly build massive forearms and increase your grip strength....

Cardio Catastrophe

If you've done any recent reading on cardio training, you've likely come to one solid conclusion: To shed pounds fast, high-intensity interval training (HIIT) is freaking awesome. Fast-paced bursts of all-out cardio punctuated by short rest intervals have been touted as key for fat loss, and for good reason. HIIT burns more calories than low-intensity cardio per session. It also places greater recovery demands on your body, which causes...

Friday, 24 October 2014

Lovely Legs

BLAST YOUR LEGS There’s a fine line between overtraining your legs and not training them hard enough. And not surprisingly, most of us fall into one of the two camps. First you have the guy who spends 45 minutes doing squats at the power rack before moving on to the rest of his hard-hitting, 90-minute quad workout. Then you have someone who thinks a sufficient lower-body routine consists of a machine-only session in which he hardly...

Shredded Shoulders

The Best Shoulder for Big Delts When it comes to upper body training, the shoulders are often undertrained. They naturally tend to lag behind arm and chest development, and can remain very stubborn, refusing to change at all. So, let’s first take a quick look at the anatomy of the shoulders so we understand what we’re trying to achieve in our shoulder workouts. Growing the Shoulder Muscles Your shoulders are comprised of three...