Most people, including most bodybuilders don’t give anywhere near enough attention to their water or fluid intake each day. As with the other four areas of this guide, water is critical to your bodybuilding success, nothing is a bigger killer of hypertrophy (muscle growth) as is dehydration. Let me explain… To grow, your body … Read more
A vital weapon in your muscle-building arsenal are nutritional supplements. Supplements come in all shapes and sizes, from tablets to powder to liquid. There are hundreds of different nutrients available to buy in many thousands of different products sold by hundreds of different companies world-wide. Take Bodybuilding.com for instance, probably the best US-based supplement … Read more
Your diet is critical to your muscle building success! We can’t emphasize this enough. You can train as hard as you like, train like some insane demon in the gym but without proper nutrition you won’t grow as quickly as you could be. Eat poorly enough and you might not grow at all, or even … Read more
Beginners Guide to Building Muscle How to get big! Remember that the goal of your weight training is to trigger your body into growing your muscles as quickly and as massively as possible. That simple. To maximize your growth you need to be able to identify as exactly as you can just how much … Read more
Joe Weider, to many the father of modern bodybuilding, developed a series of principles that I, even after 16 years of bodybuilding, still adhere to and agree 100% with. I learnt them right at the beginning of my bodybuilding activities and I truly believe that if you learn and use the Weider principles, you … Read more
Frustrated over your progress? This article is for you if you’re frustrated over your progress despite training your guts out at the gym week in, week out. The sad truth is that a sizeable proportion of bodybuilders are not growing anywhere near as quickly as they could simply because they are overtraining. All those … Read more
Your Questions Answered: I train hard and struggle to gain muscle. Is there anything I can do? Answer: Hi there. First things first, you are not alone. There are many many people who struggle to gain muscle and get big, despite training hard, really hard in the gym. Lots of these people eventually lose … Read more