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Total Body Beatdown: A German Volume Training Routine
Do you ever find yourself walking into the gym on a random day thinking “I just want to totally smash every muscle in my body today”? Maybe it’s after a long weekend spent indulging in some drinks and bad food or after an unintended absence from the gym. Or maybe you just happen to feel overly ener...
Super-8 Three Day Bodybuilding Workout Plan
This is a fairly straightforward muscle building approach. You attack big exercises with ramping 8 rep sets until you are unable to reach 8 reps on a set. When this occurs you drop the weight by 10% and perform and all-out set, and then drop the weight an additional 10% and perform a second all-out...
Old School Series: 1990s Bodybuilding Routine
One of the things I love best about bodybuilding are the routines. When I stumble upon some new way of training, it makes me feel like a kid at Christmas. Having made most of my gains in the late 80s, I was pretty much a prisoner of volume training. When the 90s hit, and Dorian Yates exploded upon t...
Coach Myers's Ultimate Bodyweight Challenge
Bodyweight exercises have always been one of my favorite methods for training. Besides the coordination and core strength required to control your own body weight, bodyweight exercises are one of the best choices for high volume supersets to achieve an incredible pump. I have found no better all ove...
Shrugs Are Overrated: Build a Massive Yoke Without Shrugs
Big traps are a silent answer to the age-old question, "Do you even lift?" Nothing says strength and size like an impressive yoke and thick neck. But if you're only doing shrugs, the gains train left the station without you. When it comes to building traps that stretch your t-shirts, shrugs won't cu...
Build Shoulders Like Boulders Workout
Delts. Boulders. Cannonballs. Caps. Regardless of what you call them, everyone wants nice shoulders, right? Having a great pair of shoulders is vitally important if you’re a competitor because so much of what the judges are looking for has to do with your shoulder to waist ratio. In the following pa...
Build A Bigger Squat: 8 Week Periodized Workout Plan
This is an intermediate squat program for lifters who are squatting anout 275 pounds or more for reps. It incorporates the following components: Rep Work - For general conditioning, form work, and to help maintain or build additional leg size. Undulating Periodization - Training will become p...
100 Rep Hell: A Shocker Muscle Building Workout
Need a change? You've come to the right workout. This one week shocker is meant to break through the boredom and monotony, and beat your body into growth. This will not be an easy week of training. You will be sore as hell, and a few days in you might be tempted to quit altogether. Stock with it. It...
10 Minute Lower Ab Workout Circuit
The lower abs are frustrating for the male species. Men tend to carry a good portion of their extra body fat on their bellies, especially around their lower gut. While losing fat, the upper stomach and abdominals typically start to come in first, while the lower abs can remain somewhat flabby. Your...