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Skip to content. The Community for Enhanced Fitness. Bigger Stronger Leaner. Stick to these rules to build size and strength. There's no way you won't grow! Christian Thibaudeau.

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Life often gets in the way of training. It doesn't matter if you're an executive, a blue-collar guy holding two jobs, a student, or a parent trying to raise a howling monster, training sometimes has to take a back seat. But contrary to popular belief, you don't need to spend over an hour in the gym 6 days a week. In fact, that can be unproductive. Remember, your body isn't able to differentiate between all the various stresses in your life. Stress is stress. Whether it's stress from your job, your relationships, the bills, or weight training, your body only recognizes it as stress. Training is only beneficial if you can recover from it, which is why if you're struggling to balance life and training, you can easily get good results by training three days a week for 45 minutes. The key to make this work is to be highly efficient with your time in the gym. You need to make the three minute workouts count. You want the majority of the work to be coming from your "money exercises.

Whether it's stress from your job, your relationships, the bills, or weight training, your body only recognizes it as stress.

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Still struggling to grow? Most lifters screw up a fundamental component of high-performance training: exercise selection. That ends today with the five greatest muscle-building exercises of all time. Check 'em out. When you stress a large amount of muscle with heavy weights, you create a massive amount of mechanical tension, triggering a cascade of growth variables: hormonal adaptations, mTOR activation, and muscle protein synthesis. You can emphasize different musculature with subtle changes in technique. In all variations, get to at least degrees of elbow flexion. This will put your muscles under a greater stretch and it forces a harder muscular contraction. Emphasize control on the negative or eccentric portion, taking seconds minimum to lower yourself under control.

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If you're really strapped for time, just go in and do the first exercises. Thinking about competing in bodybuilding, physique, figure, or bikini? Keep a logbook, write down your numbers, and always strive to beat your previous session in one way or another. This is to prevent over-working the lower back, which is a common mistake made with full-body workouts. Dips hurt your shoulders? The key to make this work is to be highly efficient with your time in the gym. Life often gets in the way of training. Chris Shugart July 2. Why working out to look like an elite Olympic lifter might be working against you. As an example, you'd perform one set of squats, rest 90 seconds, then complete a set of leg curls, rest 90 seconds, then go back to squats. Do this plan every other day.

Check out the plan. German Volume Training 10 sets of 10 reps has been around since the s. The great results for those that survive it are largely a product of accumulated muscle fiber fatigue during sets 6 to

Chad Coy March Go for Romanian deadlifts. Ironically, some strength coaches put strength on the backburner. We want performance to be high and your focus to be on applying progressive overload with perfect form over time. Christian Thibaudeau September Train your arms all day long. Training to look like someone else is pointless. Christian Thibaudeau July 9. Andrew Coates. The goal is to rapidly develop a dense, lean muscular body. This smart training strategy is designed for natural bodybuilders who love high-volume workouts. Grow anyway. And neither are you if your staunch beliefs about training hold you back from making progress.