by Jeff Willet | Articles
There is a big misconception when it comes to abdominal training. You often hear that in order to trim your waistline you need to do countless high rep sets of crunches and you need to train your abs frequently throughout the week. This is simply not true. You can’t...
by Jeff Willet | Articles
My goal every time I train is to build maximum muscle. This is true if I am six weeks from a show or in the off-season and that’s why my workout approach never changes. I always train heavy with the Max-OT principles year ‘round because it’s the best way to train to...
by Paul Delia | Questions & Answers
Max-OT will work for everyone. Max-OT produces the fastest results in lean muscle growth no matter what your experience level, how long or how little you have been training, male or female, whether you are genetically gifted or genetically shortchanged. Max-OT...
by Paul Cribb Ph.D. CSCS. | Questions & Answers
While there is a lot of conflicting research on this, I tend to agree with researchers at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia. These scientists recently demonstrated that alternating between lighter and heavy loads will provide best results for explosive...
by Paul Cribb Ph.D. CSCS. | Research
Type-2 (non insulin dependent) diabetes is at epidemic proportions in the United States and other developed nations. Most experts agree that if the problem isn’t addressed real soon, one in three adults in this country will have this disease by the year 2020. Type-2...
by Paul Cribb Ph.D. CSCS. | Research
Muscle fiber types fall into three main categories; slow-twitch (type-I), glycolytic fast-twitch (type-IIx) or oxidative fast-twitch (type-IIa). Slow-twitch fibers are recruited to lift lighter loads and have very little capacity for increasing size. The type-IIa and...
by Paul Cribb Ph.D. CSCS. | Research
Competitive bodybuilders have been using pre-exhaust and other “advanced” bodybuilding techniques such as supersets and drop sets for years. Pre-exhaust techniques typically involve performing a single-joint exercise (such as the leg extension) prior to performing a...
by Paul Cribb Ph.D. CSCS. | Questions & Answers
Some bodybuilders believe that pre-exhausting a muscle with an isolation exercise (such as knee extensions for quads) before performing a multi-joint exercise (such as squats) will provide a greater stimulus for muscle growth. Not only is this wrong, now research...
