When you’re new to weight training you pretty much follow workout routines straight out of the book and don’t have the knowledge to put your own spin on them, and generally don’t know enough about how your individual body works and how it reacts to different types of training. Weight training and muscle building is a constant learning curve. You speak to the most experienced bodybuilders, athletes and coaches and they all say (well, the good ones do) that you should never stop learning.

That being being said, there are some rules that apply to weight training. Rules that you need to know in order to understand training, and tailoring your training program to your needs. Here at what I consider, the rules of weight training…

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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.

Check out this video, do you think you could tear through a phone book?

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Just came across this today…log stacking Olympics!

How do you think you’d compare against these guys??

Welcome to real weight training. This is the first post. Stay tuned!