Bodybuilding

These underlying training principles contribute to keeping your body healthy, growing, recovering, and building muscle over the long-term. You simply need to follow them.

After being plagued with injuries for six years, these three things got me back to pushing legs 100% without risk of injury.

John Meadows' expertise on shoulder training filled a void in the atmosphere of bodybuilding information. I've incorporated rear delt work with all of my clients, and I've learned a few things along the way.

I had another birthday, which meant the return of my annual day spent obsessing over my age. This time I realized something new: I know how I want to die.

Intensity is much talked about in bodybuilding, but what is it? Is it taking sets to failure? Lots of volume? Dropsets? Supersetting?

A lower back injury doesn't have to mean the end of your training days. Here's one of my go-to methods for continuing to train hard and make progress.

Say your quads, hamstrings, and glutes are capable of handling 500 pounds in the squat, but (because of weakness, tightness, or overuse), your adductors can only handle 400. Not a good look.

I have been asked so many times lately about rear delts that I figured I would make this the topic for the second edition of Body Mechanics 101.

Effectively train your hamstrings with these hacks and find yourself sitting a few inches taller.

If you want full back development, you're going to have to stop focusing on the deadlift.

You can control the physical demands placed on your body in the gym, but you can't always control what happens outside of it. How can you ensure you're recovered and in an optimal state once its time to train?

Want grip strength like a bear and biceps like baseballs?