Author: rxbodybuilders

When it comes to planning cardiovascular training, most bodybuilders don’t put much thought into it. They plan their muscle group workouts with great precision and focus. They select exercises, set and repetition ranges, and even toss in a few training principles to increase intensity, such as drop sets or training beyond failure. However, their cardio training sessions usually involve jumping on the nearest open machine and completing the time required to stay trim, with little regard for muscle group crossover or spillover effect. There are ways to stimulate the muscle group that has just been trained with weights, during the…

When you first begin bodybuilding training, there is a good chance you aren’t going to take forearm training all that seriously. After all, they aren’t listed as target muscle groups in nearly all the articles we read in magazines. In the beginning, we usually employ a group of compound lifts which deliver stimulation all over the body. The forearms grow at a rate determined by genetics, rest, diet and stimulation through secondary training. Every time you complete a barbell row, biceps curl, or lat pull down, the forearms are targeted. In the beginning, they grow as a result. However, there…

While the chest is actually considered to be a single muscle group, it actually contains five separate yet equal areas which need to be developed to their fullest if you wish to display a full and complete chest. Let’s check out these five areas, along with exercises which hit them most effectively. The Inner Chest Close-grip bench press (used for triceps) is a great way to isolate the inner chest. Also useful are incline and flat dumbbell flyes. The contraction and flexion you feel at the peak of every repetition is highly important as well. The Outer Chest Cable crossovers,…

In recent years, MAX-OT training has seen a huge peak in popularity, followed by a dip in coverage as training methods such as DC training have taken center stage. Still, there is a large contingent of bodybuilders who use MAX-OT training religiously. They believe it offers a way for bodybuilders to train quick and heavy, in a very safe and productive manner. Body part #1 Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Body part #2 Exercise 5 Exercise 6 Body part #1 will be a major body part. This can include back, chest, thighs, or even shoulders, if traps…

Top of the morning to ya. Word around these parts is that your lower back isn’t so pleasant to look at in the morning. Heck, it doesn’t look good when you’re posing at any time of the day. Perhaps it’s time to get serious about your back training, and really challenge that area to grow. You use your deadlifts for pure mass, and you know the hyperextensions you’ve been using are helping with detail. However, you have been searching for a third exercise which can help deliver detail and mass to the lower back – and you don’t mind a…

Everyone has that showcase body part or muscle group which always seems to shine above the rest. At the same time, we all probably have that muscle group which lags behind all the others. It’s always better to “nip it in the bud” and fix these weaker areas before they become long term problems. Many bodybuilders try to avoid thinking about the muscle groups that are very weak, telling themselves they’ll just draw focus to their strongest areas. This only lasts until your first bodybuilding show, where weaknesses are exposed very quickly. In order to avoid this, you should tackle…

Weight training and cardio are exercising routines with very distinct effects to the body. The former is purely concerned with muscles while the later is all about physical fitness. This is exactly where the ladies in body building differ with the gentlemen. When a young girl comes into a gym for the first time ever, she will most definitely head straight to the cardio area and the cardio machines. Body builders call these machines, the cardio bunnies, for reasons better known to themselves. But when young men hit the gym for their first time, they usually go straight to the…

Today’s gyms are equipped with a multitude of machines which allow the trainer to hit the various areas of the pectorals (chest muscles) with relatively no pain or balance. You can hop on any device in the gym and pump, pump, pump to your heart’s content. The problem is that you’re probably not going to build that much muscle as a result. You’re going to fill it with blood, and you’re going to feel like the strongest man in the gym inserting that pin and moving the stack. But the bodybuilder across the gym repping out with 225 on the…

It is very important to train intensely because this is the only guaranteed way to achieve muscle gain. When you are in the gym you need to workout up to the point where your muscles reach muscle overload. As soon as the muscles reach this point they are now ready to start growing. 1. Prepare yourself mentally You need to prepare yourself mentally to experience some pain. In bodybuilding you need to expect pain because there can be no gain without pain. The problem nowadays is that many people are pleasure seekers and go out of there way to avoid…

Any bodybuilding guru will attest that the very first step of attaining and maintaining a fantastic body is usually rocking the gym and or track, and training hard. This article tries to integrate your understanding to the importance of resistance training as an integral part of bodybuilding and other physical fitness exercises. Remember that positive and prompt results of exercising come from an organized program consciously harmonized with the precise individual objectives. Among the best and result oriented training strategies remains the interplay of weight and resistance training. Ideal resistance exercises primarily use the body weight, weights and specific training…