Author: rxbodybuilders

Q: What do you think of cable exercises for the legs when preparing for contests? Do you think they are beneficial or take too much energy away from size-preserving exercises like squats? A: Everyone is different. I’ve seen guys get ready for shows still doing squats, leg press and hack squats, with absolutely no finishing type exercises and look separated, sharp and cross striated. I’ve also seen guys do lunges, leg extensions and other specialization exercises and look fantastic too. I think it really knows how your legs respond to stimulus. Do you, for instance, respond well to either high…

The best kind of training is the style that you’re not currently using. This applies to cardiovascular exercise, as well as the routines employed for individual body parts and the entire body split. Today, let’s examine a quadriceps training routine that challenges us to start with the low-weight, high intensity work, then move up to some higher-weight, lower-volume training. This will ensure both the slow- and fast-twitch muscle fibers are trained adequately! Start this training routine with leg extensions. Your first set should be the lightest, highest-repetition set of your day. Aim for fifty repetitions! At the conclusion of this…

Let’s face it, cardiovascular exercise is one boring beast. When you’re in the pre-contest phase and you are absolutely required to put in the time if you want to get lean. Here are some ideas for passing that exercise time while getting things done or maintaining your sanity. For the sake of this list, we will make the assumption that you have access to a treadmill or stationary bike with a platform that will allow for the attachment of various items. Television This is the easiest way to pass an hour of boring cardio. Turn on SportsCenter or MSNBC and…

Time is tight at the moment. You’ve done everything you can, but you just cannot break out of the demanding work schedule they have for you. The good news is that you’re piling up the money in these tough economic times. You have to pursue these opportunities. The bad news is that it’s costing you a great deal of time in the gym. At the very best, you can squeeze in thirty minutes per day, for 5 days. This isn’t making it easy to train high volume as you prefer, but you’re okay with backing off the volume if it…

Ideal body training is very relevant for all body builders since it is the one which brings in positive results. This is the reason why, everyone is venturing in different websites, reading magazines and watching videos on body building, all in the pursuit of general information about success in muscle development. There are many body building training programs but they serve differently to produce diversified results. Unilateral and bilateral forms of training are two main types of body building training. They mean completely different things and are carried out is several forms. Unilateral training is generally working out only one…

Are you seeking a few new ways to vary your training so that you can keep challenging your muscle groups, and keep the grow coming? You have come to the right place. Check out these techniques that you should be using every single workout to keep raising the challenge in the gym that you are facing, and raising the response from your body (namely, muscle growth!) Use more weight with each successive set This should feel like common sense to some lifters, but others seem to miss out on the point entirely. You should never complete 3 or 4 sets…

There is no doubt that high-volume training is very effective for thousands of bodybuilders for building the kind of mass necessary for standing on the bodybuilding stage. Sure, those low-volume, high-intensity articles look really good on paper. Why can’t a person attain maximum muscle in only one working set? Scientifically speaking, it looks great. However, in the real world, with so many factors (nutrition, diet, recovery, and those factors on the neuromuscular level), it’s darn near impossible to reach your bodybuilding potential without a lot of food, sleep, and yes, training sets. In order to make your high-volume training most…

Bodybuilding is one of the most effective ways of boosting your self confidence and general self image. If you look at the life styles of bodybuilders you will find something in common, almost every bodybuilder lives a fulfilled life. This however only applies to bodybuilders who have become successful without the use of steroids use or any other enhancement hormones. In order to mold your character through bodybuilding you need to train the natural way. This is difficult sometimes and that is the more reason why you will feel fulfilled when you know you succeeded through your hard work. Even…

Q: My buddy and I were having a debate the other day about what “intensity” means in terms of an actual workout on paper. Do you think this workout is intense, too intense or not intense? Straight Leg Deadlifts – 4 x 4 (12,10,8,6 + drop set for Hamstring curls – 3 x 8-12 Good Mornings – 3 x 10,10,10 Calves – 6 sets Biceps – EZ Bar Curls 5 x 12,11, 10, 9, 8 Preacher Curls – 5 x 12,11,10,9,8 Hammer curl – 2 x 8-10 What do you think? A: Well, a few observations. Number one, it’s a…

Most body builders who have not tried to adopt a circuit training technique in their program live in ignorance of what is the use for a circuit training routine. It is important that you understand the aim and thus the benefits that accrue from a circuit training workout routine. In the basic, circuit training workouts are specifically designed to evenly strengthen all the major muscles and muscle groups in the body builder’s physique using specialized isolation exercises and a dose of compound exercises. The body must be built from the perspective of individual muscles and their supporting attachments, ligaments and…