Continuing on with the answers to the following questions … How long should I bulk? How long do I have to bulk? The first ‘it depends’ answer was to counter with the question of how much muscle do you want to gain? To that we add the following: 2. How much muscle do you gain.. Read more →
So in the previous post about bulking we touched on what determines whether or not you should consider doing a ‘bulk’ (I really dislike this word by the way), or not. Again, let me just say to drive the point home, that bulking is not an excuse to get fat, get sloppy, etc. The point.. Read more →
I get asked a variety of bulking-type questions a lot ‚Äì mostly from females ‚Äì so I thought I’d just cut and paste a question and answer it here for reference. My opinions here would not be gender specific, applying both to males and females. Q: Still tossing around the idea of doing a figure.. Read more →
Last week I wrote up a post called Spotters: You Don’t Need One where I explained why 9.9 times out of 10, they’re a waste of time and how their biggest ‘use’ is to stroke your ego and somehow have you believing you actually lifted that weight – when they said “it’s all you, come.. Read more →
Ok, I better qualify that to ensure that what I’m saying is very clear – 99% of the time and 99% of you, do not need to use a spotter – ever! Who and when would the 1% be? Someone like a powerlifter going for a big 1RM on the bench or the squat for.. Read more →
Putting It All Together The take home message here is not that there is no place for steady state cardio, or that you should only be doing interval training. The best course of action is to use both forms of cardio. An overemphasis on either will result in less than optimal results. If you’re just.. Read more →