Just because you can perform an exercise doesn’t mean you should. There are many abdominal exercises, and most trainees perform almost ...

Last month I described a beginning program for the light, heavy and medium system. After athletes have been doing it for... Knowing how to use the heavy, light and medium system is extremely important ...

This is one of those “too good to be true” yarns—the kind that evolve into Superman, Batman or IRON MAN mythology. Okay, how about at least a buffer, tougher version of Wally Cleaver? It’s a tale ...

I know it’s difficult to accept the notion that Overhead Presses – an exercise that has been around for decades, and has been considered one of the most fundamental exercises in weight training since ...

Never before had a superadvanced bodybuilder, let alone a top Mr. Olympia contender, trained with a mere one-set-per-exercise protocol in an attempt to gain more muscle mass. How many sets should a ...

One magnificent prince, Don Howorth, possessed the gift of second sight, drawing him to look beyond Brigadoon?s lush borders. Gather round, friends, and tarry with me but a short while. The tale I ...

talked about Mr. Olympia competitions of all time. When Arnold Schwarzenegger was training hard at World Gym in the summer of 1980, many wondered if the former King of Bodybuilding was planning a ...

Before we begin talking about the best Lat exercise, we should first establish a few things – namely, where our Latissimus Dorsi is located, how it’s attached, and what action it produces. This may ...

I was standing in line at the post office behind an elderly man and a younger woman, who, I learned from listening to their conversation, was his daughter. “Dad,” she was saying, “you need to go see ...

A self-confessed musclehead and attorney, he got down to 2.4 percent bodyfat, something unheard of even today, and he did it with clean eating, sensible training and no drugs—and he was over 40 when ...

Having a strong, broad back and ripped, large biceps is a goal for most people that enter the gym. Since many workouts that target your back also hit muscles in your biceps and vice versa, it is a ...

Like many others, Mark Forest used bodybuilding as a springboard to success. Thanks to his shapely physique, a career in films opened up for him. Forest did 12 lavish films in the 1960s, but then he ...