It is often the case that when someone discovers the gym for the first time and really gets into training they will work out for hours upon end hitting the same body part 3-4 times per week, training 7 days a week. This article will explore the reasons behind over training, it’s easy to be [...]
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 [...]
May be the number one calf-training mistake is picking the wrong parents, because more than any other bodypart, calf size is determined by genetically structured anatomy. Those with high gastrocnemius can suffer thousands of sets and still have “peg legs”; while others, despite never having entered a gym, possess footballs that seem to sprout from [...]
If you’re serious about packing on lean mass, you know you need protein–lots of it. In fact, for optimal muscle growth, you need at least one gram of protein per pound of bodyweight per day, every day: that’s a minimum of 200 grams of protein for a 200-pound guy. If you’ve been reading FullyFlexed for [...]
IFBB Pro Bodybuilder and Team BSN athlete Brandon Curry uses a lot of variation, high intensity, and short rest periods to obliterate his shoulders from all angles. Troy Brewer explains shoulder anatomy.
With more meat than a deli counter, and tricked out with vertical ravines and horizontal etchings, quadriceps can be showstoppers. Unfortunately, most bodybuilders never maximize their quads, because they are forever shortchanging their leg workouts. This month, we’ll examine the most frequent quad-training blunders and lay out a course of action for correcting each so [...]
Football Players. Wrestlers. Bouncers. When’s the last time you saw a huge, imposing dude with a chicken neck? Answer: Never. Because no matter how big the rest of you gets, a lacking traps and neck area will make you appear smaller and weaker. This specialized routine works the powerful trapezius muscle from top to bottom. [...]
When it comes to the infinite number of foods that you can put in your body, there are good foods and there are bad foods. Clearly, you know to avoid the bad foods Whenever possible, but When it comes to choosing the very best foods for your physique goals, that’s an even harder decision. FullyFlexed [...]
“As a new bodybuilder, green and brimming with enthusiasm, I found myself at the gym every day, often twice a day, during my first years in the sport. I read everything and talked to everyone I could and took what I learned to the gym more often than I should have. Of course, all’s well [...]
At FullyFlexed, the nutrition questions come at us fast and furiously. It’s safe to say that diet know-how is almost every aspiring bodybuilder’s weak point, both because of rampant misinformation in the media, on the web and spread through gyms nationwide, and because it isn’t the simplest of topics in the first place. What you [...]
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