What makes the difference between a beginning and intermediate lifter? There’s no cap-and-gown ceremony, that’s for sure. Rather, it’s a conscious choice to take your training to the next level. Here are a few variables that will change.
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The 5 Key Variables You Need to Know for Maximizing Muscle Growth
Many of us copy form that we commonly see others using in the gym, and that approach has clobbered many a good movement. Rotator-cuff exercises done with a dumbbell and the confusion between conventional and Romanian deadlifts come to mind. Another one is common to the family of shrug exercises: does it matter if you roll your shoulders or is it better to use an up-and-down motion?
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The 5 Key Variables You Need to Know for Maximizing Muscle Growth
You always hear about factors that affect musclebuilding, namely through optimizing conditions that drive optimal anabolic hormone release. Here they are:
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Skip Balance Training if Your Goal is Max Strength or Size
Not long ago, trainers inserted balance training into their strength and musclebuilding workouts. This was great if you were an athlete who performed in a highly unstable activity, but highly counterproductive if you were trying to maximize muscle or strength gains.
Read MoreSkip Balance Training if Your Goal is Max Strength or Size
Not long ago, trainers inserted balance training into their strength and musclebuilding workouts. This was great if you were an athlete who performed in a highly unstable activity, but highly counterproductive if you were trying to maximize muscle or strength gains.
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How Strength Training Can Help Your Musclebuilding
While bodybuilders and strength trainers use the same tools in the gym, they approach their workouts differently. For one, their goals are distinct: optimizing muscle size vs. strength – they aren’t the same!
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Tips To Maximizing Muscle Building
When you lift to optimize strength, you do in fact get bigger, but the methods won’t maximally increase muscle size. Instead, you’ll want to use a slightly different approach — one that requires you to choose a weight which you can instead lift for 8 to 12 reps. Still, you must meet these two conditions.
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Powerful Tips For Power Training
Power training isn’t as simple as following a given workout because it includes many elements and many different types of exercises. You should choose exercises that match your goals. Start off modestly and increase volume and difficulty over time. In fact, such workouts can remain an integral part of your training throughout the year.
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THE BIG THREE: ALL ABOUT SQUATS, DEADLIFTS AND BENCH PRESSES
In order to grow, get stronger and improve your performance, there’s no avoiding the big compound movements and heavy weights.
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