Mike Mentzer: A Genius or a Crazy
Posted on May 10, 2010 - Filed Under Build Muscle | Leave a Comment
Background:
Mike Mentzer was a famous bodybuilder who competed back in the 70’s and 80’s against the Arnold, himself. He was a huge supporter of extremely low volume training. He had some essential view points and his own way of expressing them. He had called Arnold about his high volume training protocols and said what a complete waste of time it all was.
Mike Mentzer’s basic theory:
His basic theory was that we are all horribly over-trained in sets and overall volume but under-trained in concentration. He recommended to do somewhere in between 1 to 3 set per body part, once in…
Read More..>>Meditation: The Muscle Building Power
Posted on May 4, 2010 - Filed Under Build Muscle | Leave a Comment
Today’s life is much stressed giving. Excessive stress leads to excess cortisol production in the body and lowers your testosterone and growth hormone secretion, which makes muscle building next to impossible and resulted in to a lot more body fat. Then arise, other problems like decreased immune response and higher frequency of injuries.
Meditation has been well known to reduce stress and relax the mind for centuries, and improves your overall health and physical appearance greatly. If your stress level decreases, you will automatically increase your muscle building considerably. You will experience greater energy, tighter work outs in the gym, faster…
Read More..>>Is Less Time Equals Better Results?
Posted on April 24, 2010 - Filed Under Build Muscle | Leave a Comment
Most forms of training have been passed down for decades from one generation to the next, without the inclusion of normal thought. Sometime in the 60’s sensible training programs started becoming less and less common with the rapidly growing usage of anabolic steroids. In the 60’s high volume, body part splits were the widely accepted way for everyone to train for size and strength. This type of training is not based on deductive reasoning. The supporters of these training methods will always tell you that the higher volume training is needed for hypertrophy gains. There are no studies available; saying…
Read More..>>Is Failure in Training Resulted in to Increase Muscle Mass?
Posted on April 24, 2010 - Filed Under Build Muscle | Leave a Comment
Many experts will tell you that if you really want to increase muscle mass you have to go to failure on each and every set you do. But some others will warn you to avoid training to failure at any cost.
The fact is that everyone goes to failure on a regular basis if their goal was to rapidly increase muscle mass. Hard work and high concentration are needed to bring spectacular improvements in size and strength. This worked out extremely well with low volume workouts. Eventually one could get away from low volume and started experimenting with a slightly…
Read More..>>Huge Legs’ Muscle Building Program
Posted on April 18, 2010 - Filed Under Build Muscle | Leave a Comment
If you want to build some serious mass to your legs you had to familiarize with this exercise in a hurry. The quads normally have a very wide variation of muscle fiber types. You can use reps in your quest to build pillar sized legs. The old 20 rep squat programs from the golden era made a massive man of many a skinny boy. You can get enormous amount of size and strength by using the high rep squats. Since its discovery, high rep squats are supposed to be the most effective exercises.
High rep squat leads to massive and…
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