Ask a dozen different trainers a simple fitness question and you’re liable to get a dozen different answers. The aim of this article is to give you the simplest, most specific advice to a variety of questions people who lift weights ask all the time. Read more

The most difficult thing about following a workout program is deciding when exactly to change it. You’ve always got two voices in your head—the one telling you to stay the course and the other one tempting you to scrap the routine. Read more

Very little is considered new or radical in the fitness industry these days. Training concepts may come and go, but we always seem to fall back on what works best or what proves to be better. Read more

For most chronic diseases, a combination of resistance and aerobic exercise tends to win versus either of the two types alone. So, I created a full-body dumbbell resistance circuit training routine that can be done at any gym, hotel, or even home. Read more

With an abundance of misleading information saturating the fitness industry, I’ve outlined 8 common exercises that aren’t worth your time and included an appropriate alternative for each exercise. Read more

Having a hard time gaining muscle? To get over a plateau and start gaining muscle fast, you sometimes have to stop following traditional bodybuilding methods and get creative with your workouts. Read more

You’ve likely heard the saying, “What’s old is new again.” Well, this is true. I’ve read Arnold’s books countless times and recall the countless intensity techniques he spoke about using to busy through muscle building plateaus. Read more

In the first installment of this series, we covered two very different but very effective means of training for mass gain: high rep and low rep. Today, I want to continue with a brief discussion of some other protocols for gaining size. Read more