Gain Muscle Mass

What Is Progressive Overload Anyway?

While there are many different methods and techniques for applying progressive overload to your muscles, there are really only two ways to apply training overload in order to stimulate muscle growth… The first way to overload your muscles is by progressively increasing your training weight each and every workout. While this is a great way to stimulate muscle growth in the beginning stages of your training, as your body adapts, strengthens and grows, even I can admit that it will become increasingly difficult to continue to increase the weights that you train with each and every workout. The second way to overload your muscles is to progressively increase the amount of work that your muscles are performing each and every workout. This can be accomplished a few different ways, but the most common are to utilize the same training weight for a higher number of repetitions or utilize the same [...]

EAS Phosphagen Creatine Review

EAS’s Phosphagen creatine was the first creatine monohydrate product on the market and the very first creatine supplement I ever used! Way back in the day, (you know before all of the over hyped crap in a bottle being peddled as bodybuilding supplements?), I was desperately trying to build muscle mass. I had to get stronger and pack on some muscle mass for the upcoming football season and all of the rumors were just starting to circulate about the amazing muscle building effects of a supplement called Phosphagen. After some quick research, I learned that Phosphagen was creatine monohydrate that was sold by EAS an up and coming bodybuilding supplement manufacturer located a few miles from my home in Golden, Colorado. Based on the recommendation of my high-school strength and conditioning coach and a few friend at the local gym, I decided to give phosphagen creatine a shot. Nearly immediately, [...]

The Best Pectoral Exercises

Build A Massive Muscular Chest Are your workouts made up of the most effective pectoral exercises for building a thick powerful chest? If you’re not sure, you’re in the right place! Take a look at the chest exercises on this page and start incorporating a few of them into your chest workouts. Not only will each of these pec exercises allow you to gain strength in your upper body, but they will allow you to target your pectoralis major with laser precision. The pectoral exercises that are listed on this page target all parts of your pectorals in a efficient and effective manner, allowing you to get the “most bang for your buck” from your intense chest workouts. If you make these exercises the basis of your chest workouts, you’ll gain both size and strength in your pecs! The Muscles In Your Chest The technical term for the muscles [...]

Partial Reps

The Answer For Serious Muscle Growth? From 2-hour marathon workouts to partial reps and everything in between, only the truly beneficial muscle gain principles stand the test of time. In the world of lean muscle gain, many “unworthy” weight training fads have certainly come and gone. As you progress and mature in your free weight training plan for lean muscle gain, you begin to figure out what worked in the past rarely works today! To put it bluntly…in order to continue to gain lean muscle mass, you must constantly apply stimulation to your muscles. In the beginning, you set out on your quest to gain muscle mass with the best of intentions. After a while, you increase the amount of weight that you are using and your muscles respond by growing. During this phase, it seems like the only thing you need to do to grow, is to steadily increase [...]

Optimum Nutrition 100 Whey Protein Gold Standard

This High Quality Whey Protein Blend Rocks! While I tend to favor AST VP2 as my pure whey protein supplement of choice (isolate, blend or otherwise), there are a few other whey protein products that I trust, Optimum Nutrition 100% Whey Protein Gold Standard is one of them. A well thought out blend of Micro filtered whey protein isolate, ion-exchange whey protein isolates (including hydrolyzed whey peptides) and high quality ultra filtered whey protein concentrate, Optimum 100 Whey Protein Gold has been designed to provide your growing muscles with both quick-digesting proteins and slower digesting proteins to ensure that your body gets the nutrition it needs exactly when it needs it! Not only has the protein blend in Optimum Nutrition 100% whey protein isolate gold, been optimized for varying absorption times, but it also contains a generous dose of Hydrowhey hydrolyzed whey peptides to ensure that a portion of your [...]

Optimum 100 Whey Protein

Why I Like Optimum 100 Whey Protein Optimum 100 whey protein is one of my favorite protein supplements hands down! Not only does it contain some very high quality muscle building protein that mixes well and tastes great, but the price is affordable for day to day “utility protein” use. Optimum Nutrition 100 whey blend is one of the only commercially available whey protein blends that I actually use. When it comes to whey protein supplements (and especially whey protein blends),not only are there a lot of options to choose from, but the reality of the situation is that most of the blends contain very low quality whey protein – the type of whey protein that really won’t do much in the way of helping you pack on muscle mass! While I’d like to be able to tell you that all of the top whey protein blends are worth spending [...]

Fighting Muscle Soreness

Muscle soreness is a part of any intense weight training workout. Regardless of what the media, television personalities and guru types tell you, there is one constant reality to all types of fitness programs. No matter who you are, or who you were in a previous life, anytime you begin a new physical activity, be it a fitness program or sport….. Your Muscles Will Be Sore! There are no magic pills, potions, creams, rubs, wraps or massages that will completely alleviate the pain associated with stiff sore muscles. There are measures however, that you can take to limit the amount of soreness you feel in your muscles. But, and it’s a big but, in order to build muscle mass, there is little that can be done. The reality of all muscle building weight training programs is that in order to build muscle, you must cause “damage” to your muscle cells. [...]

Muscle Gain Weight Lifting Workout

This muscle gain weight lifting workout has been designed specifically for beginning and intermediate level weight lifters who want to gain lean muscle mass in their chest and arms quickly and safely! If your goals include gaining muscle, then it’s important to keep in mind that training with free weights is only part of the muscle building equation. In order to gain muscle not only will you need to train with weights in an efficient manner, but you will also need to pay attention to what you eat, and how much rest and recovery time you are allowing your body in between workouts. Make sure to begin each muscle gain weight lifting workout with an adequate warm-up. After that’s out of the way…simply follow along with the muscle gain weight lifting instructions provided for each exercise. Good luck and have a great workout! Muscle Gain Weight Lifting Chest Workout [...]

Muscle Gain Training Program Tips

Are you looking for a muscle gain training program that can help you pack on slabs of muscle mass overnight? It’s true…a well thought out muscle building program can significantly reduce your learning curve, but…It is simply not possible to gain quality muscle mass overnight! Chock full of marketing agendas and unbelievable pictures of steroid infused buffoons, the popular muscle magazines are really not the best place in the world for the average fitness buff to get quality muscle gain training advice. Not that you won’t gain muscle by taking steroids, following a smart muscle gain training program and paying attention to what you’re eating. You definitely will, but at what cost? Furthermore, most of the bodybuilders I bump into who are taking muscle gain short cuts instead of following a solid muscle gain training program and quality diet, are not the most intelligent human beings around…if know what I [...]

New Muscle Gain Tips

“Uncover The Key To Sustained Muscle Growth!” Have you been scouring the web in search of long lost muscle gain tips to help you break through a recent muscle gain barrier? If you’ve been hanging around the popular muscle gain and bodybuilding websites for any amount of time, you’ve no doubt come across some of the more “basic” muscle gain tips… 1.) Eat protein to gain muscle mass… 2.) Get enough sleep… 3.) Drink plenty of water… 4.) Train hard and heavy to stimulate muscle growth… Sure these common muscle gain tips will help you in the beginning, but what do you do if you’ve already incorporated the obvious into your muscle gain program? In order to clear the air on this touchy subject, I’ve compiled a list of muscle gain tips for advanced bodybuilders that reach beyond the basic cookie cutter answers you’ve already heard. “Increase Your Dietary Fat [...]