Bodybuilding

You can spend months dieting and training in preparation to show your best on stage, but if you screw up in the final 30 minutes, what you're left with is a sub-optimal package and poor placement.

Science, intelligence reports, and training programs all require a thesis whereby assumptions are made on the path to turning raw information into good insight.

You should integrate the Smith machine into your sessions with the intention of creating a new stimulus, taking advantage of its ability to let you push past a normal threshold of muscular failure. Here are my favorite ways to do so.

We have a current state of back development in the sport that erectors are thick and upper backs overpower lat development. There's a reason for this — and a way to fix it.

Tailored for the powerlifter and bodybuilder, we revisit Dave Tate's and Mark Dugdale's conversation covering exercise execution, pre-workout food, recoverability, training evolution, and more.

You have every right to be boring and unappealing to others because you can’t carry on a conversation about anything outside of nutrition or training. But everyone around you is going to realize you suck.

Given the advantage of hindsight and the progress I enjoyed during a productive six month off-season, it's time to share the most valuable lessons from placing all my efforts on getting big without letting my physique get sloppy.

If you’re beat up from powerlifting or more concerned with hypertrophy, some of these variations may prove useful. In all honesty, alternatives of the basic lifts have done the most for the development of my physique and hypertrophy.

In my entire life of training, I've only ever had six training partners, and never more than one at a time. Now I have two. That's right — there are three of us.

Bulk up your back, strengthen your deadlift, and learn to activate your lats with this one exercise.

Many first-time competitors end up as only-time competitors because they neglect to take the right precautions before beginning their prep. Follow these rules to avoid letting your first show be your last.

I can’t help but be annoyed at what has come of this generation in the gym. Basketball shorts over tights? Nalgene bottles? Functional exercises? What is wrong with these kids?