Training Over Training & Maximising Training Response The best way to make gains isn’t just about lifting heavy and eating a ton of protein, although obviously it helps. I’m often asked by guys that...
Training Motivation: Guilt Or Enjoyment? was having a conversation with one of the women that comes to my gym about the amount of training that I do each week, and she asks me the question â€...
Training Beginners Guide To Lifting The Simple Fact of the Matter Here’s the uncomfortable truth: building lots of muscle means deep, heavy squats, weighted dips, rack pulls and more. ...
Training Tri, Tri And Tri Again! The triathlon. Many people are scared off by this multi-discipline endurance event, typically because of the need to master 3 sports and the sheer v...
Training Dealing With Post Bodybuilding Competition Blues Everyone knows that pre-competition diet and training is vital for success; however, the claim is advanced here that training and supplementation po...
Training More Sweat Now, Less Jiggle Later Move over long slow duration exercises and make way for high-intensity interval training (HIIT). Recently, it has been suggested that HIIT is far mor...
Health & WellbeingTraining Dealing With Lifting-related Pain Pain in the muscles and the joints can be, well, a pain. We have all experienced it, and it’s usually a sign that we need to ease off. However, some...
Training How To “Trick” Your Body Into Stronger Performance If the placebo effect teaches us lifters one thing, it is that we are stronger than our brains think we are. Ariel and Saville’s (1971) study on pla...
Training Making Your Training Count I frequently get people coming up to me and say they are doing everything they can to reach their goal but their body just does not seem to respond. T...
Training Training For Strength Vs Hypertrophy Fundamentally, training for strength and training for hypertrophy involve the same thing: you need to train hard, and with sufficient load and volume....
SupplementsTraining Periodisation For Muscle Growth In my last article, I hammered home the point that whether your goal is strength or hypertrophy, you need to periodise your training. In this article,...