Recent content by nsp

Im with you on that. Not just from a preference, I thought she was just more complete by bodybuilding standards in general, shape, muscularity and conditioning. Without a doubt Iris at her best beats any female bodybuilder to date (again off of bodybuilding standards) but she wasn't her old...

Good luck, keep us posted.

By Dani Shugart: Here's what you need to know... Female bodybuilding needs to be redefined for the modern woman. If your goal is to build muscle, you are a bodybuilder, even if you don't compete. Early female bodybuilders, like Rachel McLish, had enviable physiques. Sadly, drugs ruined the...

by Layne Norton At the beginning of the evening, only 13 men had ever won the elusive Sandow. At the end of the night, it was still only 13. Phil Heath did it again! The 50th Mr. Olympia competition kicked off Friday night with a stellar and contentious prejudging that featured great...

By Stephane Cazeault Exercise scientists and the bodybuilding community are in agreement that to create the maximum muscle growth, the most effective training protocols place the muscle under tension for about 20–70 seconds. Although this exercise guideline will help develop large...

From Mel's FB page

By Cynthia Sass: I frequently meet my clients at their local supermarkets so we can walk the aisles together. Most find it incredibly eye-opening: Sometimes what they think they know about which products to select or how to read food labels turn out to be misconceptions. For example, one...

By Charles Staley: Here's what you need to know... •  It's not what you can do in a set, it's what you can do in a workout. It's not what you can do in a workout, it's what you can do in a training cycle. •  If you're interested in maximal strength, tension is the name of the game...

Look'n to be a real detailed log so far. Ill be fallowing.

Awesome

By Nate Palmer: Here's what you need to know... •  Loaded isometrics teach irradiated tension, which increases strength gains in almost every exercise. •  These moves can be done to increase either muscle size or strength, depending on the load used and the time under tension...

Pretty big deal. Good things to come from this for sure.

By Kendall Schmidt: If you have been searching for the fountain of youth, I have some good news: it's been found! No, it's not hidden in some Florida swamp, it's actually somewhere between the dumbbells and the pull-up bar. Nope, I'm not kidding: The University of California, Los Angeles...

By Cade Thomas: Building significant amounts of muscle is a selfish endeavor no matter how you slice it, and there are certain sacrifices that must be made on a social and financial level if progress is something you value. Genetics are always a factor that can either afford you a certain...

By Christian Thibaudeau: Here's what you need to know... •  For hypertrophy, it doesn't really matter what the exercise looks like as long as it puts the muscle under an optimal load/tension. Accordingly, some of the biggest bodybuilders on the planet rely heavily on partial reps...