In the suffocating sweat sock of Florida’s Pompano Beach, with its heavy hissing midday air, motorists taking to the freeway do so with a dread not unlike that of entering Erebus, that benighted pit stop on the way to Hades; Ahmad Haidar sees that heat-shimmering snake of macadam wiggling its way into the city and [...]
Dear Fullyflexed, For some reason, my front delts simply aren’t very developed. My middle and rear delts are doing okay, but when I look in the mirror, my shoulders don’t appear as thick and full as I think they should be, and they don’t tie in to my pecs very well. Here’s my shoulder workout. [...]
Big, round, wide cannonball delts are the mark of a hardcore bodybuilder. To make them huge, pressing some serious poundage is essential. Heavy dumbbell presses are one of the best ways to go for full deltoid development, but if you’re stuck on the 50-pounders, you’ll never get those caps. Sometimes you have to take an [...]
You’ve undoubtedly tried different programs in search of more size and deeper cuts. You’ve gone high rep, you’ve gone low rep, you’ve pyramided up, you’ve pyramided down–hell, you’d do the freakin’ Hokey Pokey every day if some study somewhere proved that it packed on muscle. One overlooked variable for many bodybuilders, however, is rep speed. [...]
Q: A guy at my gym told me not to waste time training forearms, because you either have them or you don’t. Mine are stubborn, so should I even bother training them? A: You think your forearms are stubborn? You should meet the mule we keep at Haney’s Harvest House! In all seriousness, absolutely train [...]
The Ectomorph’s Diet The ectomorph is the lucky body type that doesn’t carry much body fat, but are unlucky in that their body burns a lot of calories per day normally. In order to increase body weight, this type of person would need to increase calorie levels in stages until a pound in body weight [...]
The only bodybuilder worthy of his profession is a power bodybuilder. He couldn’t care less about what he sees in a mirror. Rather, he feels the call to get into the gym every day for no other reason than to slam the heaviest weights he’s ever tried. You can spot these guys a mile away. [...]
If you’ve been making less than stellar increases with your heavy weights lately, consider revamping your power training to include unilateral movements. “Unilateral training for your lower body is an excellent way to break through plateaus,” according to Tom Seabourne, PhD, author of The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Great Buns and Thighs (Alpha, 2006). He [...]
When it comes to the perfect training program, there are three key variables for gaining strength and muscle mass: the number of sets per bodypart, the number of reps completed per set and the frequency with which each bodypart is trained. Yet, if you were to ask the bodybuilding industry’s biggest pros for their numbers [...]
Just as the Manning name–Archie, Peyton, Eli–is synonymous with great quarterbacking, the Taylor name–Vince, Ernie, Quincy–is synonymous with enormous arms. It’s even more remarkable that three prominent pro bodybuilders would share the same surname, because, unlike the Mannings, the Taylors are unrelated and, muscles aside, have little in common. Quincy Taylor is the greatest enigma [...]
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