by AST Sports Science | Articles
You will put yourself miles ahead of the majority of your buddies training in the gym if you simply take the time to determine exactly what you want to accomplish from the effort you are putting in. Your brain will immediately and efficiently seek out all the...
by Jeff Willet | Articles, Training
We all know progressive overload with the Max-OT principles is the key to continual muscle gains but how much weight should you add to an exercise and when should you add it? There’s no magical formula, but there are a few guidelines you can follow to keep each...
by Paul Cribb Ph.D. CSCS. | Articles, Research
In recent years, the science of how to build muscle hasn’t made big advances; it’s made friggin’ quantum leaps! If you want to build more muscle then listen up, I’m going to share with some critical breakthroughs in how to do it. This information will save you...
by Dana Bushell | Articles, Training
Angle manipulation for increasing the effectiveness of an exercise or for starting a new training stimulus for new growth is an extremely effective method for building muscle. The most important aspect of deciding whether you have to manipulate the angle at which you...
by Dana Bushell | Articles
Skepticism is a characteristic that only serves one purpose; to hold one back from attaining levels never before seen accomplished. It is this skepticism that has often cast a negative shadow over the world of weight training and caused many to miss out on an...
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 Paul Cribb Ph.D. CSCS. | Articles, Research
Conventional resistance training typically involves the controlled movement of weighted devices such as barbells, dumbbells and machines (with fulcrums and loaded weight stacks) where muscles undergo concentric (shortening), isometric (static) and eccentric...
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...
