I get asked all the time why I love rest-pause method. Here's the answer, including an explanation of what makes this technique the universal gainer.

Finding the right patterns and repeating them daily, by using the right aids and avoiding certain practices, can help improve your performance at work and in the gym — all while making you feel healthier and happier.

There are a lot of great tips, but these are what I consider the best for training back, shoulders, chest, triceps, biceps, calves, legs, and abs.

This program isn't for the faint of heart, but if you're really willing to push each set as hard as you possibly can, the results will be worth it.

It's story time. So travel with me, if you will, dear reader, back to turn of the century— in the winter of the year two thousand, and meet a very different Swede than the man writing this today.

A good off-season program gives your joints a break, helps you put on quality muscle, and gives you a mental break from the rigors of competing so you can just have some fun training. This program provides all of those things.

Most people fail miserably with their poorly thought-out ideas, weak plans, and grandiose proclamations of how they are going to change their lives — usually before the end of the first week. So what?

Wrist curls alone aren't going to cut it. Try this protocol instead.

You've probably been told to focus on the process rather than the outcome, but the thing is, no one tells you how; you’re simply chastised for focusing on the wrong thing, then told to go on your merry way.

There are many ways that drinking alcohol is toxic not only to the body but also to any bodybuilding goals. It is harmful for adding muscle mass, minimizing body fat, and will hinder your performance and your health.

Before you can ever execute advanced training techniques, you must first master what I call The Three I's.

Feeling your lats engage on accessory work will make it easier to activate them on the compound lifts. One of my favorite ways to do this when I can add an extra training day is with a light, high-rep extra workout.

I've been tanning since I was about 16 years old, and beds these days just aren't the same. If you really want a tan you're going to have to find another way.

This workout uses a holistic approach in order to build strength, explosive power, and hypertrophy, utilizing a combination of light weight, heavy weight, tempos, isometric contractions, giant sets, bands, and the Juarez Valley finisher.

To improve the CTP protocol, I've made a few tweaks so that you introduce a unique pain technique through one round and then switch it each time.

Inspired by John Meadows' primary and secondary workouts, combined with what I know about density training from Vince Gironda, my current split accounts for time and intensity limitations.

30 years of training, 20 years of competing, 15 years of working in the industry, and I've never once been to the Olympia. I don't plan to go anytime soon either.

This full back workout uses innovative thinking and multiple intensity techniques to maximize results.

Quit doing old, dumb shit that doesn’t work.

How does this system translate to someone that just wants a bigger set of guns? Incredibly well, actually, due to the fact you will spend the bulk of your training sessions performing hypertrophy work to bring up primary movers.

As improvement season heats up, I’ve been doing the exact opposite of the traditional bodybuilder's approach, and the results have been incredible.

We took eight weeks off after what was pretty much a train derailing from the tracks, and someone replaced my wife with some crazy bitch that I don’t recognize.

Seven years ago while benching 500 pounds, I experienced a partial pec tear to the muscle belly near the attachment to the pec tendon. These are the techniques I used to recover and the exercises I perform to safeguard my pec from ever tearing again.

If you struggle to find motivation and have been training for only a handful of years, I would question your passion for training. If you struggle to find motivation after training for 20 years, I feel ya.