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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

So what's the most crucial time period in a bodybuilders daily routine ? As you may have suspected, it's after their workout session. The body is in a very critical state at that time and needs proper nutrition in order to start it's building process on the areas that were just stimulated by an intense workout. It's imperative that the body gets that proper nutrition during that window of opportunity because if it doesn't then it will end up jeopardizing some of that persons past building accomp... 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