Try this deltoid workout for some monster capped delts. Summer or winter, it’s always a good time for guys to flaunt their broad, menacing shoulders—it’s also the one thing the ladies will notice most (apart from your guns). But how do you get perfectly capped delts? Just give this workout a try, and you’ll be sporting some mighty deltoid muscles in no time. Before listing the routine here is a description of each exercise […]
Build a set of traps that are as impressive from the front as they are from the back. Flash back to the mid- to late-1980s, when Georgia-based bodybuilder Lee Haney was an unbeatable force on the Olympia stage. His traps were one of his many standout muscle groups. Not only for the way they popped up on his shoulders, but also for the way the complete traps — upper, middle and lower — looked when Haney turned […]
Quick Bio: Age: 30 Height: 5’8″ – 173 cm Contest Weight: 240 lbs – 108 kg Off-Season Weight: 270 lbs – 123 kg Location: Lexington, Kentucky, United States How did you get started with bodybuilding? I was a really skinny kid growing up and I used to get bullied and picked on a lot. Towards the end of high school I’d had enough and started […]
No, we aren’t talking about money! Weight loss can be difficult, frustrating and take what feels like an age to do successfully. The good news is that we can calculate how long it takes under certain conditions, and use this knowledge to speed things up. How long? First of all, we can measure this with a simple calculation. We know that 3000 calories weighs a pound, so 10 pounds is 30,000 calories. […]
This isolation exercise can help you be a quadrosaurus. Bodybuilding was introduced to truly massive quads by Tom Platz. Since Platz’s day, the expectations for leg development are truly on another level. Skipping leg day is not an option. There are many good options for hitting the quads, but the one that isolates them to the greatest extent is leg extension. It’s also the exercise that allows full activation […]
Use a new approach to build pecs like the greatest bodybuilder of all-time. Bench press, incline press, dip, and dumbbell flye. That’s the basic routine Arnold Schwarzenegger used to develop the chest that is considered one of the most perfectly built of all time. Chances are, you already knew this “secret,” and you’ve been following it. So, why isn’t your chest more like Arnold’s? OK, we’ll give you a break. […]
Construct a billboard-sized back that will get you noticed and keep you healthy. 1. Pullups When you see someone walking around the gym with a big back, you can guarantee they can jump up and kill 15-20 pull-ups without even breaking a sweat. See the connection? Pull-ups and chin-ups are two of the best mass builders for the back. Targeting the lats, shoulders, biceps and grip, these exercises have so […]
Use these techniques and exercises to start shredding some killer abs. In some of my early competitions, judges would tell me that my abs looked great when flexed, but when standing relaxed they were hardly visible. I heard that message loud and clear and knew it was time to step up my abdominal training and to start building some “bricks” in my midsection. The following have been the key […]
