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Max-OT is a relatively new type of training program developed by the company AST. The basic idea of Max-OT training is a twelve week program that will give someone the fastest results in terms of building muscle in the least amount of time as the company claims. Another amazing thing the company boasts is that it will work for everyone specifically the [...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding? My dad & mom both inspired me! My dad competed with the BEST the NPC in the 80's & 90’s! He won Mr. NPC Delaware, the year I was born! And won Mr. NPC. Tri-State, Mr. NPC Eastern Shore, Best Body on the Beach! I grew up in health & fitness family! I would sit on my dad’s lap and read Muscle & Fi[...]

Rob Riches is one of the top natural bodybuilders in the world and owing in large part to Rob Riches diet, he’s also graced the pages of countless fitness and muscle magazines. Here Rob shares his intense Chest/Tricep workout and reveals some very helpful tips. Chest/Tricep Routine Bench Press: 4 x 12-6 reps Incline Bench Press: 3 x 10-6 reps [...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding? I first started working out in high school to put on size for football. I loved the changes I started seeing in my strength and physique. From then on I was hooked. I started reading anything I could get my hands on about health and fitness. After high school I went to college to study exercise science. I started [...]

Regardless of how you train, one thing should remain consistent: intensity. Unless you're training at a high intensity level, optimum muscular development cannot be accomplished. Keep in mind there's a fine line between maximum intensity and overtraining. Since training consistently at a high level can eventually lead to a state of overtraining, be sure to [...]

Sorry to burst the bubble: The idea that burning 3,500 calories will burn a pound of fat may be true on paper, but it's not always true in reality. In the best of all possible worlds, when you cut 3,500 calories from your diet, you should lose a pound of bodyfat, but that's not always the case. There's a lot more to dropping bodyfat than just the numbers.[...]

Concerning the virtual posedown that was presented in these photos, it is easily apparent that Ronnie Coleman is an amazing picture of extreme mass and cuts. Arnold Schwarzenegger, on the other hand, is the picture of symmetry and classical lines with incredible size. Looking at these two physiques matched up by computer, one realizes why pro bodybuildi[...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding/figure? Well I started at a young age competing in competitive gymnastics. I did that until the age of 18, then met my now husband, Matt. He was a teen bodybuilding sensation with a “particular organization” and when I met him I was just starting to workout. It was perfect timing, my body had been out of gymnast[...]

Hypertrophy-Specific Training™ arose out of the research looking at both the stimuli and mechanisms for muscle cell hypertrophy. Hypertrophy-Specific Training (HST) is based on physiological principles of hypertrophy first discovered in the laboratory. These principles were then organized into a "method" of mechanically loading the muscle to induce hype[...]