by Dana Bushell | Questions & Answers
I’ve known and trained with a lot of bodybuilders since the first time I picked up a barbell and many if not all of those experiences have given me useful tools and knowledge for my own bodybuilding endeavors, and now I get to share this with anyone who looks to me...
by Dana Bushell | Articles
Every once in a while a sudden feeling that completely overwhelms you and totally throws off your approach to training sets in without any warning at all. This usually occurs to those of us who have a significant amount of training time under our weight belts and...
by Dana Bushell | Articles, Training
What motivates us to get up every single day and put ourselves through sometimes torturous behavior is different for each one of us. It is true that our outlet is the gym, but make no mistake, our outlet is not always pleasurable. It often hurts, but we realize...
by Dana Bushell | Articles
Well, with the past now in our rearview mirrors this would be a great time to sit back and reflect on a year’s worth of training, eating, supplementation, trial and error, misguided practises, epiphanies, highs and lows, gains and losses and be thankful that...
by Dana Bushell | Articles
As athletes, we take every single precaution to ensure our health is in order so that we can employ our trade day in and day out. However, every once in a while our training and nutrition are going to come to a screeching stop because of something we can neither...
by Dana Bushell | Articles
The masses of well-intentioned individuals who are seeking out a better lifestyle that is filled with gains in size and strength have been led astray. Far too often promises of an improved physique in a very small amount of time are said to be true, and gimmicks drain...
by Dana Bushell | Articles
Bodybuilding in its purest sense is all about developing the muscles on the human body so that each muscle group fits perfectly with the others giving way to a symmetrical, large and pleasing physique. Training splits have been developed so that over the course of the...
by Dana Bushell | Articles, Training
Athletes are creatures of habit and can easily find themselves stuck in a training rut that is hard to get out of. Every once in a while, you have to take a step back and re-evaluate your training efforts. Perhaps the gains you’ve been accustomed to have ceased and...
by Dana Bushell | Articles
Each time you pack your bag and head off to the gym, you must have a clearly defined goal in mind. You should either be aiming to get bigger, stronger, faster, leaner or all of the above. Without a goal in place, you’ll be wandering around aimlessly with no direction...
by Dana Bushell | Articles, Supplements
I’ve been training now for roughly 18 years. In that time I have experimented with quite possibly every exercise that exists, every diet that has come to fruition and countless supplement products in my quest to achieve physique perfection (at least my version of it)....
by Dana Bushell | Articles, Training
The pleasantries of having no real place to be, no solid commitments and a complete disregard for direction have no place in a bodybuilder’s lifestyle. Everything that must be accomplished in a day is a well thought out plan of attack designed to create a better...
by Dana Bushell | Articles, Training
Ask any ten bodybuilders out there what their least favorite part of the entire training process is and my bet is that nine of them will quickly answer “cardio”! Cardiovascular training, while mundane and boring, is a necessary evil in the recipe for success. It has...
by Dana Bushell | Articles
Precision, productivity, general effort and intensity are the four key main ingredients for establishing a solid workout. There is no point in entering a gym free of a plan of attack, free of a designated mindset and with no set point to which your workout should end....
by Dana Bushell | Training
When comprising a training routine divided up into different muscle groups on different days, what works best for one may not necessarily work as well for another. An effective training split is as unique a setup as the individual using it. For that reason, the only...
by Dana Bushell | Articles, Training
Structural integrity is a performance characteristic that ensures the constructed will carry out its designed function. Apply this definition to the world of bodybuilding, and you’ll find that the path it leads you to is literally at the “core” of your physique....
