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When I talk about getting BIG in this article, I'm not just talking about legs.. I'm talking about an overall increase for the whole body that comes as a result from extremely taxing leg workouts. Now you're asking yourself.. how can doing squats that are for working out your legs, make anything else grow larger and stronger? Well there's this thing called the "spillover effect" that helps create such an environment for the body to allow for this to happen. Think of it as an added bonus if yo... Read More

Why really worry about how many repetitions you perform during each set of an exercise ? First let me explain what reps and sets are, for those that are new to weight lifting.. Repetitions or Reps for short, are the amount of times a person completes a positive and negative motion during a set of lifting movements. So it takes a positive and negative motion to complete one Rep. Now Sets of course are made up of those Reps I just spoke of. So for example, I might do 4 sets of Barbell Curls as my... Read More

In my last post I wrote about attaining big arms. In this post it will be talking about putting slabs of muscle onto your chest. In some ways building your chest is a lot like building the muscles in your arms. The biggest difference is in the fact that your chest muscles are a larger group than the ones that make up one side of your arm. So for example.. when we compare your chest to your biceps, it can be agreed that the chest is larger than the bicep muscle itself. This means that the chest c... Read More

Well I'm most certain that just about every guy at one time or another wished he had the biggest, strongest arms in the world. OK maybe not in the world but at least the biggest in the neighborhood or at school.. Needless to say having BIG Strong Arms does have it's privileges. They come in handy on the job and the ladies love them ! And sometimes the ladies actually like having them, themselves. Just ask any female bodybuilder. Now that I've talked about them so much there has to be some kind o... Read More

The National Exercise & Sports Trainers Association’s Personal Fitness Trainer Certification Receives NCCA Accreditation   NESTA earns national accreditation through the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA).   Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. March 25, 2008— As NESTA continues to grow, NCCA accreditation earns it a new place within the health and fitness industry.   Among NESTA’s most recent accomplishments was their partnership with Polar to create the PFT 2.0 c... Read More