People Behind Popular YouTube Fitness Channels: Exercises They Hate and Rules They Live (and Lift) By
EctomorpBodybuilder.com asked popular Lifting YouTube Channels 2 (and 1/2) quick questions: What is the one exercise you don’t like doing but do anyway? Why? What is your favorite motto or a quote that you try [...]
My New Workout Program – Back to Basics (5×5 Program)
After experimenting with Wendler’s 5/3/1 and getting some very nice results I decided to go back to my all time favorite program – 5×5. The 5/3/1 program worked well, but I just started to be [...]
Building Muscle: Effect of Stress, Body Fat and Cortisol
Bodybuilders tend to associate higher cortisol with muscle catabolism, or breakdown. It’s true that cortisol is the major catabolic hormone in the body, but it has other effects that can be beneficial or detrimental, depending [...]
Incorporating Mental Toughness Training
Living for 30 years in Los Angeles, the home of broken dreams, I’ve seen weekend warriors, models, and actors who were great looking and in shape slowly fall apart from constant disappointment and rejection. Some [...]
What are Stage Sets and How to Use Them to Get More Muscle?
Q: You’ve mentioned stage sets. What are they, and should I use them to get more size? A: Jonathan Lawson and I discuss stage sets as one of our favorite X-hybrid techniques in Beyond X-Rep [...]
Training Intensity: Necessity or Overrated?
To start out, we need to identify the purpose of using high intensity in your workouts. Here’s 3 Reasons high intensity can benefit you and your workouts: Building Massive Amounts Of Muscle Skyrocketing Your Metabolism [...]
