It’s about time we started seeing more women in the weights room! It’s about time I started spreading the word that just about any woman of any age can benefit from training with weights, and you won’t end up looking like a female bodybuilder!!!
Here’s what I’m going to do. First, I’ll debunk some of the myths about womens weight training, then I’ll list all the reasons why women SHOULD train with weights on a regular basis. So here we go…
Stuck for time? I was the other day and had to cram a chest and back workout into under 30mins. I didn’t want to drop any exercises, because I would not be training as hard. So how did I fit it all in? I used opposing muscle supersets.
For those of you who don’t know what a superset is, it’s one set completed straight after another, with no rest in between. A good superset example would be bench press/flat bench flys. Where you would bang out a set on the bench the as soon as the weight is on the rack pick up the dumbbells and bust out a set of flys. An opposing muscle group superset is a superset using opposing muscle groups. This was perfect for my chest/back workout as these muscle groups are opposing. Here are some other opposing muscle groups:
Here’s a fantastic picture of Larry Scott, the first ever Mr Olympia, doing ring flys. This is an awesome strength and isolation exercise if you have the strength to do them with correct form.
There are a couple of other bodyweight fly techniques I know of.
Today I came across a good video with some simple exercises you can do with a single barbell at home. If you equipment is limited, here’s a good exmaple of what you can do if you get creative. This guy hits almost every muscle group in this vid.
On top of the exercises you see in the video you’ve also got all the traditional barbell exercises you can do for building muscle.
Check out the video:
You may or may not have heard about this, but there is a new documentary coming out soon about steroid use. It’s called “Bigger, Stronger, Faster” and by the looks of the trailer it’s definitely going to be one to watch.
I have always been an advocate of drug free sports, especially natural bodybuilding. I think this documentary will show just how much steroid use goes on behind closed doors in sports today.
Bigger, Stronger, Faster hits the box office on May 30th 2008. Definitely a must watch!
Click here to watch the Bigger, Stronger, Faster trailer.
The pectoral muscle group is one of the easiest to train. You have a huge array of big compound exercises that hit your chest from all angles, as well as loads of great isolation exercises to finish the chest off. But just like any other muscle group, the pecs hit plateaus and might need some extra stimulation to grow.
Today I’m going to post up some ways to pump up your chest workout! These are techniques that I’ve used before to bring up my chest and get through annoying plateaus.
This is going to be the first entry in my “how to” series. I will be writing many how to guides in the future, hopefully answering a lot of the questions that the reader of this blog have. Today I’m going to be showing you how to improve your grip strength.
Grip strength is so important, not just for weight training but for many sports like rock climbing, MMA, wrestling, powerlifting, strongman etc. Good grip strength is essential for all weight trainers, and there are some good exercises available that will help you increase your gripping power!
Should you do your cardio before or after your weight training? This is another question I’ve seen asked time and time again. For some reason (I have no idea why!), it has always been common place for weight training to follow cardio. This is the wrong way to do it, no matter what your goal, cardio should always be done after weight training and here’s why…
If you have a naturally skinny build like me, you’re probably no stranger to weight gain supplements! And if you’re a skinny build and you haven’t used weight gainers, now is the time to start! Weight gainers are great for thin guys looking to put on some serious mass. The reason being, when you’re thin and looking to bulk it’s all about getting enough calories. Fast metabolisms mean skinny builds need more calories that your average to put on some size.
So today I’m going to look at how to choose a good weight gain supplement. There are hundreds of weight gainers on the market, all ranging in price, calories and ingredients.
It’s Q&A time again! I got the same question 3 times this week, so I think I should address it here since the answer was the same for each of the 3 people that wrote in and asked the question. The questions all went something like this:
“I have been working out for X months. I have been training hard using X workout routine and taking X supplements . I am not getting any bigger!? I have put on [insert small weight here] pounds in [insert long time here]. I should be getting bigger but I’m not growing. Please help!”
