Building the Yoke: Utilize the Function of the Upper Traps
Stop thinking of your traps and start thinking of your clavicles.
My Years with HIT
When I started bodybuilding, I looked up to Dorian Yates, so I trained like him. And it worked.
How and Why I Dieted to 7-Percent Body Fat: Show Day
The time has come to make final preparations and step on stage. Here are thoughts and reflections from this demanding journey.
WATCH: The Justin Harris Training Philosophy
This unique, time-proven methodology has made Harris a master of both bodybuilding and powerlifting.
How and Why I Dieted to 7-Percent Body Fat: Supplements, Training, and P...
Now that you’ve committed to this tiring, sometimes painful process, there are several things to remember to make this experience achievable.
The Contest Prep Survival Guide: Show Day
The day has finally come. All of your hard work comes together for the moment you step on stage. Are you ready?
Can You Handle The Couth?
You’re welcome to your opinion about any man — living or dead. But sometimes you should just keep that opinion to yourself.
WATCH: Forgotten Benefits of Vegetables and Fiber
Are green-leafy vegetables and “free” foods the missing links to your diet?
Bring On the Regulation
This industry is a sea of turds, full of ‘coaches’ with no credentials and no right to be training anyone. Let’s fix that.
The Search for Meaning
How you spend your time on this earth determines what you define as meaningful. Does your lifestyle reflect your vision?
Shelby Starnes' 3-Way Hypertrophy Split
This routine divides training into push, pull, and leg sessions for maximal muscular growth and optimal time efficiency.
Contest Prep Survival Guide: Food Preparation and Traveling Tips
Food is the most crucial aspect of succeeding in your first show. Use these tips and strategies to stay on track.
EPOC—The Secret to Fat Destruction
After years of competing as an IFBB pro, Dugdale has learned what will keep you thick while you shed fat.
What Is Post-Activation Potentiation?
This fancy term might make you sound smart, but is there a way to use it to your advantage in the gym?
A Bodybuilder's Take on the Bands and Chains Trend
If you use bands and chains your social media following may grow, but will your muscles?
Corrective Work: The Overlooked Necessity for a Long Competitive Career
You may not know it yet, but you need corrective work—your longevity depends on it.
Welcome to the Post-Show Gates of Hell
Terrible things can happen after a show. I’ve seen shingles, illness, and weight rebound. If your protocol is intelligent, you can avoid all this.
Contest Prep Survival Guide: Getting Started
You might think you’re ready for your first time on stage, but have you overlooked these crucial details?
3 Ways to Really Build Muscle
Are you looking for the magic tip to gaining solid lean muscle mass? Look no more. All you need to know is within this article.
The Psychology of a Champion
I interviewed two IFBB pros to investigate what truly goes on in the mind of a champion.
Applying Bodybuilding Science to Create a Genetic Freak
If your simple training program is not producing results, your satellite cells, hormone balance, and intensification techniques might be to blame.
6 Ways To Increase Strength
Six REAL factors to getting strong, not the same crap we’ve read over and over… and over again. Seriously, how many times do we have to be told to train hard, be consistent, follow a program and eat right? Those may not even matter anyhow but these do.
WATCH: Getting the Most Out of Rest-Pause and Isometric Training
These two intensification methods are often used, but are you getting the most out of them?
An Open Message To All Competitors And Coaches
Recognize your role, accept your responsibilities, and quit making excuses to hide your flaws.
Commitment for Bodybuilding
This one component in your life will affect your success than any other factor.
WATCH: Advanced Programming for Leg Hypertrophy
Do you want quads that sweep like a janitor and hams that hang like horse’s balls?
Beer, Boobs, Guns and...Other Things Bros Like
The journey of a thousand pounds begins with the first ounce.
To Inflame or Not to Inflame: Is Arachidonic Acid the Answer?
We examine the data to determine if ARA is a quick n ' easy way to gain muscle mass.
Why Kai Didn't Win (and Why It Doesn't Matter)
In a sport that has gone from high school stages to large Vegas venues, winning the Mr. Olympia has become much more than just having the biggest and best conditioned physique on stage.
5 Necessary Attributes of Pro Potential
Maybe winning the Mr. Pontiac Michigan is as far as you'll be able to take it.
The FatBusters Analyze Dietary Trends
When there's something weird hangin' in your fridge, who you gonna call? FatBusters. When you hit an ab shot and it don't look good, who you gonna call? FatBusters. I ain't afraid of no carbs.
Arachidonic Acid Trip
To inflame or not to inflame – that is the question. Whether ‘tis more anabolic in the body to suffer the sets and reps of outrageous volume or to take rest against a sea of sessions and, by opposing, end them?
Muscle Protein Synthesis and the Anabolic Window
When God closes a gym door, he opens an anabolic window.
WATCH: Hypertrophy-Based Back Training
Dave and the BIG DOG bring on scapular Armageddon by inflicting trapezoid tyranny and latissimus dorsi demolitiion with just a touch of rhomboidal wreckage.
The Protein Con
Do you really need your two scoops, three times a day of whey protein isolate? Or have you been brainwashed by the Whey/Casein Cartel?
A Year of Eating for Strength
Fill your calendar and your stomach with this annual guide for progress-driven nutrition.
Post-Season Dieting Discussion
I grill Ken Skip Hill, debrief Agent X, and de-shell Shelby Starnes to find the optimal diet plan after a bodybuilding show.
The Intricacies of Peri-workout Nutrition
Skip this interview if you want to stay ignorant about nutrition.
Is Hand and Elbow Position Sabotaging Your Squat?
Correct your shoulder mobility, integrate your lats and brace your core to hit a new squat PR.
3 Common Deadlift Mistakes
We give you three easy fixes and a program to put your stubborn deadlift back on track to PRs.
Fred Hatfield Reviews "BUILT TO THE HILT"
Dr. Squat gives you his expert evaluation on Josh Bryant's newest book.
Strongman Conditioning: How to Finish at the Top
Remember the five Ds: Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, and Dodge.
A Modern Approach to Contest-Day Eating for Strongman
That stack of bottomless pancakes you had for breakfast won't taste so good coming up after the medley.
Darden's Guide to the Super Yoke
Darden rolls like a tank through the streets of Cyprus leading the bicep nation.
Stevenson Learns Lessons at Masters Nationals
Great show prep mixed with a poor off-season equals low placing.
Secondary Workouts for Increased Muscle Size and Conditioning
Bump up the volume for a better build.
Ladewski, Starnes, Meadows Hit the Posing Dais
Results from a weekend of most musculars and quarter-turns.
Mythbusting Fasted Cardio
Does performing cardio with low blood sugar levels increase fat burning? Muscle gain? Performance?