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Mass Attack: Compound Movements For Symmetry and Size – Written By Eric Helms
It is common place to see popular bodybuilders using special techniques and exercises to try to isolate individual muscles, or even parts of muscles. Sometimes they even claim to be able to change the shape or add striations or contours to the muscles by doing certain rep ranges, rep tempos and specific angles.
In reality muscles can only do two things: g[...]
Nutrition Tips: How To Make The Transition From A Cutting Phase To A Lean Mass Phase
Many times folks transition from cuts to bulks the wrong way. This occurs from overestimating the rate a natural lifter can put on muscle, as well as a lack of understanding of how the body responds to dieting. Another common mistake is going from restrictive dieting phases to free-feeding, resulting in weeks of work disappearing in days. Nutritional strateg[...]
Protein Intake: How Much Protein Should You Consume And What Does The Research Really Say?
Bodybuilders, power lifters, strength and power athletes and certain team sports athletes can greatly benefit from having increased lean body mass in the form of muscle. Hell, for bodybuilders it’s the goal of the sport! While for performance athletes it’s a means to an end.
Total muscle mass, strength and power can benefit athletes in many ways depen[...]
