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Video – Vince’s Fitness Muscle Building, Not Your Run of the Mill, Bachelor Party!

You’re probably thinking what the heck has Vince’s bachelor party got to do with health and fitness?
Well believe it or not Vince wanted a bachelor party that created a positive, entertaining and memorable experience that bonded him and his buddies with an element of “Fear Factor.”
If you’re not already familiar with Vince Delmonte, he’s one [...]

Power-Bodybuilding Mass And Strength Training Programs Videos

Watch Muscle Building Coach Lee Hayward as he outlines solid “Power-Bodybuilding” Mass and Strength Training Programs that you can follow to pack on lean muscular bodyweight!
Lee Hayward (author of the Blast Your Bench program) is a competitive bodybuilder, powerlifter, and muscle building coach who is committed to helping aspiring bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts gain muscle, [...]

Try These Tips For Effective Body Building Workouts

Body building workouts offer and deliver benefits that even go beyond looking fantastic. By adding these muscle building workouts into your fitness routine, you can be healthier overall, bounce back from illness more quickly, and can be less prone to injury as you age. For those who do experience an injury, recovery time is typically [...]

Bodybuilding For Beginners Tips For Muscle Mass

Do you have the desire to be stronger and healthier? Do you hunger for eye-popping muscle mass? Bodybuilding is a very effective way to build strength and muscle while also enabling you to work every muscle group of the body. Train using a quality bodybuilding for beginners workout and nutrition plan, and you could become [...]

Tips to Gain More Muscle By Changing Your Rep Tempo

Can you gain more muscle by changing your rep tempo? There are a million ways to train, and a million ways to alter your training. Many people become overwhelmed when presented with the myriad of “systems” that claim to be better than the rest. In reality, my experience is that the most successful program is [...]

The 1 +1 Skinny Guy Transformation Program: Defeat Your Skinny Genetics

It happens every year. The New Year comes and every scrawny twerp on the planet swears this is going to be the year that he slaps on an extra 20 pounds of muscle. But if you didn’t pack it on successfully last year, what makes you think this year is going to be [...]

My Top 15 Non-Traditional Muscle Building Fat Scorching Workouts

If you have been a subscriber to my newsletter for some time, you know that I’m always trying to give you ways to make your workouts more interesting and fun, while also stimulating big-time results. Don’t you agree that your training should be fun? This is what separates the people who jump on and off [...]

Build Muscle and Lose Fat Easier by Manipulating Your Training Variables!

Everyone will inadvertently hit a frustrating plateau in their training at one time or another. You’re cruising along for a while, gaining strength, losing fat, looking better, and then all of the sudden it hits. Suddenly, you find yourself even weaker than before on your lifts, or you find that you’ve gained back a couple [...]

4 Harmful Muscle Building Myths Uncovered

If you’re serious about making a solid commitment to a muscle-building program, you need to be very careful of who you take advice from. Bodybuilding and fitness is literally a multi-billion dollar industry with new websites popping up every single day. Many of the so-called “experts” out there really don’t have a clue of what [...]

2 Simple Steps To Ripped Muscles

Summer is on the horizon, and the time has come to kick back and relax under the sun. It’s time for beach days, barbecues and pool parties, and for any serious weightlifter these activities also mean one thing: it’s time for the shirts to come off and to showcase that rock-solid physique they’ve been working [...]

How To Gain Weight And Muscle – Even If You Are Under Weight

Here are four ‘little known’ how-to-action-steps that will show you how to gain weight and muscle, even if you are underweight!
Are you sick and tired of people telling you how to gain weight. It probably sounds like this:
“All you [...]

8 Proven Strategies For Maximum Muscle Gains

There is so much conflicting information out there when it comes to the topic of building muscle, and sometimes it can be very difficult to know where to start. If you’re an average beginner looking for some basic guidelines to follow in the gym, the following 8 points will start you off on the right [...]

9 Easy-To-Make Muscle Building Recipes

Think putting yourself on a muscle building diet has to be a painful process? And that maybe muscle building recipes can be confusing? Whether your goal is fat loss or muscle building, getting proper nutrition is at least 80% of the game. If you don’t have that figured out, you are going [...]

The Perfect Rep Range For Muscle Building Exercises

No matter what you read or who you talk to, everyone has their own opinion of what the “perfect” rep range should be to allow for maximum muscle stimulation and growth for muscle building exercises. In this article I’m going to clear up the confusion once and for all and teach you the truth about [...]

The Ultimate Hard Body Workout Exercise

The Front Squat:
As you may have already discovered, the squat is at the top of the heap (along with deadlifts) as one of the most effective overall exercises for stimulating body composition changes (muscle gain and fat loss). This is because exercises like squats and deadlifts use more muscle groups under a heavy load than [...]

How to Weight Train for Maximum Muscle Gain

Weight training involves the use of equipment that enables variable resistance. This resistance can come in the form of “free weights” like barbells and dumbbells, machines that use cables or pulleys to help you lift the weight and bodyweight exercises like pull-ups or dips.
Free Weights vs. Machines vs. Bodyweight Exercises
For maximum muscle gain, the [...]

Weight Lifting Rules For Skinny Runts

You wake up in the morning and look in the mirror.  Pleased with your appearance? If you more resemble the appearance of a long distance marathon runner than a world class sprinter, don’t worry, you aren’t alone. You just need to start following these weight lifting rules.
There are quite a few guys who simply have [...]

For Maximum Fat Loss and Muscle Gain, Focus on Both Consistency and Variability in Your Workouts

In one of my recent articles, I spoke about the fact that you must alter your training variables that make up your workouts if you want to continuously get good results, whether it is losing weight, maximum fat loss or building muscle.
While changing your training variables is an integral part of the success of your [...]

A Complete Body Workout With The Ultimate Mass Routine!

Are you looking to build some serious size, but can’t find much time to train due to a hectic, busy lifestyle? Then look no further, I have the routine for you!
The Ultimate Mass Routine
Muscle mass comes from hard work on the basic exercises, heavy weight, lower reps, taking each set to at least failure. It [...]

Body Part Isolation vs. Complex Movements in Muscle Strength Training

Working as a fitness professional, there is one type of question I get all the time that shows that many people are missing the big picture regarding the benefits of muscle strength training. This popular question usually goes something like this:
“What exercise can I do to isolate my _______ (insert your muscle of choice – [...]

Barbell, Kettlebell, and Dumbbell Complexes to Take Your Body to a New Level of Hardness

If you’ve been looking for a different training technique to break out of a rut, eliminate the boredom, and bring on new results, “complexes” may be just what you’ve been looking for. If you’ve never heard of “complexes” before, the basic concept is that instead of repeating the same exercise for multiple reps to complete [...]

Looking To Gain Some Lean Mass Women? Here’s What You Need

You’re not likely to hear the average person on the street tell you that they want to gain some weight, however amongst the gym-going crowd this is a common expression.
Don’t be misled though, the majority of these people aren’t just talking about weight in general, they are talking about adding pounds of lean muscle tissue. [...]