Author: rxbodybuilders

The most common question in bodybuilding training usually involves frequency of training. Busy people don’t have enough time. Young people have too much time. Some folks train two days per week. Others prefer 6 or 7 days. What is the optimum number of training days per week? It all depends on your goals! If you’re just starting out If you’re just starting out, start with 3 days a week and move up. Your body will tell you when more frequency is required. Recovery is actually MORE important than training or diet, and many people often overlook this fact and spend…

When you decided to hit the gym, you focused on the same two things everyone else does at first: getting big and benching a lot of weight. Most people think that means paying special attention to bodybuilding chest workouts. So they use the bench press, doing incline, decline and flat. They do chest dips and dumbbell raises, then add in some pushups for good measure. In the first couple of months this routine will produce some good results. After that, growth will usually slow down or stop altogether. Most people get frustrated and confused by this. Their main solution is…

“I can’t do pull-ups, I’m just too big!” You’ve probably heard this excuse from one of your gym buddies in the past, as they try to explain why they’re limiting their outer back to the use of cable pulldowns. The truth is that they aren’t strong enough to pull themselves up, and they are using their body weight as an excuse. While it’s true that skinny lifters at 155 pounds can do pull-ups for days, there is no excuse for heavier trainers to toss out the movement. There’s no doubt that the mechanics of some exercises are going to change…

You know what the meaty back days entail. You walk into the weight room, and you crawl out. You spend an hour and a half clubbing the back with set after heavy set of deadlifts, rows, and other assorted painful movements. At the end of the day, your back is pumped, you don’t fit in your shirt, and you know tomorrow is going to being some soreness. This is the way you should always train, right? Not exactly. There are going to be times when you don’t want to all-out destroy the back with heavy barbell and dumbbell movements. Maybe…

Well, spring is here and you wan to hit the beach and flaunt what you have. Well if you haven’t been going o the gym as much as you are meant to, you still have time. However, I do hope that you won’t make a habit of last minute preparations. As scouts are normally told and as their motto clearly states, you should always be prepared. Let’s not dwell in the past, so what to do? First of all you need to thoroughly look at your current state. If you didn’t overindulge in fast foods, then you can still flatten…

In this world, time is the ultimate resource. You can always make more money, meet new friends, and find just about another resource through a combination of good luck and hard work. Time, however, is the one thing that is ultimately finite for all, and eventually, unfortunately, we will all run out of it! Barring all of this serious stuff, bodybuilding training is also affected in a major way by our time limitations. Sure, we have all seen the clips of professional bodybuilders training for two hours per day. Toss in time for cooking meals and taking showers, and you…

Without a doubt, the deadlift is one of the top three movements a bodybuilder can use to add mass to his physique. Not only does it train the back, but it adds overall mass to the entire frame. Proper deadlifting technique can lead to new gains in muscle and strength. Improper lifting, however, can lead to serious injury which can keep you out of the gym for months, or suffering form back pain for the rest of your life. It just takes one bad rep to change your days – forever. This is why deadlifting should be taken very seriously.…

The Triple Shot is a training technique which allows the bodybuilder to stimulate each muscle group from the three most important angles. It’s not a super-set, which is designed for fast blood loading. And it’s not a giant set, designed for complete muscle annihilation. Rather, the Triple Shot is a technique designed to isolate the three largest parts of a muscle group, then delivering the three most effective movements for hitting these areas. The goal, of course, is the most possible muscle group stimulation leading to growth. Let’s check out routines for some of your muscle groups. Chest Back Shoulders…

“Everybody wanna be a bodybuilder, but don’t nobody want to lift no heavy weights!” This line was shouted by 8-time Mr. Olympia winner Ronnie Coleman in one of his bodybuilding training DVDs. His point was simple. Most people would love to possess a highly muscled physique, but most people don’t have the determination or fortitude to spend years in the gym moving the heavy weight required to attain such gains. His words are true. The use of heavy weights is required for achieving this goal. You cannot build new muscle mass without a caloric surplus and the movement of heavy…

Weight training for runners can be very useful for improving muscular endurance and delivering better running performance on the track. It can also help the runner – often plagued with the curse of being eternally skinny – with a bit more muscle to show off! When is comes to designing a workout program that integrates standard running along with weight training for runners, many factors need to be taken into consideration. You have to eat more, recovery better, and balance it all together if you wish to have the most success. It can be done, but you’re going to need…