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Hit a muscle-building plateau? Getting bored with training? If you want to add some size, here is a method I have used with athletes ranging from the likes of Branch Warren to the weekend warrior. This method is not for the weak of heart but it's brutally effective. You will ...
[Editor's Note: When Cory Gregory speaks, athletes listen. His regularly published workout articles, now featured here at ProSource, are read, discussed, and implemented by hundreds of thousands of athletes each week. Each entry is ideal for busting a plateau, forcing muscle tissue to adapt and grow, and helping you attain ...
[Editor's Note: This week, we're proud to introduce a new recurring feature here at ProSource, the Training Madness Series, hosted by one of the true legends in this business:
MusclePharm co-founder and celebrated bodybuilder/powerlifter Cory Gregory. In recent years, Cory has emerged as one of the leading emissaries of the ...
People often say time is the most expensive currency. Many times I oblige and agree with a courteous head nod; but after time and consideration, I often disagree.
Time is a limited resource--the most finite in the world; there's no disputing that. But the true value of time is held ...
If you read last week's edition of Monday Morning Motivation, then you know we've asked you to stay committed to heavy lifting in 2013, even if it just makes up a portion of your overall training program. All those big lifts bring about greater strength and size while keeping you ...
"Flex!" someone shouts. Odds are you won't turn and flex your glutes, you will flex your biceps. With that being said, let's take a look at an unorthodox bicep-building strategy.
Compound multi-joint movements are at the core of any effective strength training program. These big, multi-joint movements build big muscles ...
Most Americans will pack on nearly a pound over the holiday season before committing to a solid New Year plan to get back in shape. Almost instinctually, many take to more jaunts with those new running shoes that Santa brought. Others fiddle with the weights, going for high-rep sets without ...
For more than three quarters of a century, high rep squats have been part and parcel of the training programs of the strongest men to ever walk the planet: Marvin Eder, Reg Park, Paul Anderson, Tommy Kono, John Davis, John Grimek, and Arnold himself. As a teenager, two of the ...
Deadlift History
Man has always had a desire to pick things up off the ground. Intuition tells me that the deadlift is the oldest strength training movement. While bench presses and squats took some ingenuity to contrive, picking something up is instinct.
Pick up a heavy barbell and put it ...
During my senior season of high school football, I was the starting quarterback. Each day I'd throw hundreds of balls, working to perfect timing with my receiving crew. Slants, outs, go routes and posts--I threw thousands of them in practice over the course of a season in order to, on ...
Twenty years ago, a good introduction would have been, "If you live in America and you want to be called strong, build a big bench press. Americans judge strength prowess by the bench press." Now, it can be said that the world judges strength by the bench press. Over the ...
How do you measure the effectiveness of a good workout? What values do you attempt to quantify to determine how much progress you can make? For most people, it boils down to reps. "I did four sets of 10." Total reps are great to keep track of because training within ...
[Editor's Note: This week at The Big Picture we welcome a new writer to the ProSource family. Josh Bryant, MFS, CSCS, PE, is the co-author of the EliteFTS Best Selling eBook, Metroflex Gym Powerbuilding Basics. IFBB Pro Johnnie Jackson has called Josh "the greatest trainer in the world." As an ...
You have to know what perfection looks like if you are going to shoot for it. Visualization is a key practice for success, but visualizing your head on the body of pro builders will only get you so far - execution is essential. Most people wake up and go through ...
Cardio. Iron heads like us hate it. The thought of spending 30 minutes at 70% of max heart rate on an elliptical trainer sounds about as pleasurable as watching a Lifetime movie marathon or listening to Kenny G. However, as unfortunate as it may be, in my opinion, some form ...
We all know that in order to bench more you need to, well, bench more. And you need to do it on a regular basis if you expect to set new personal bests. 205...225...275...315...405? You need to put in the work! But to reach those goals, you can't just press ...
This might surprise you, but during college I loved finals week. While other students were stressed, sleep deprived and teetering the fine line between learning and insanity, I was having a great time. Well, not a great time by most college student standards; I wasn't hammering my gullet with mixed ...
In response to your groanings about a squat that will simply not improve, some strength coaches will tell you that you just need to keep adding weight to the bar or that your legs are too long to be an efficient squatter (sigh). These all-too-typical responses are shortsighted and tend ...
Like death and taxes, strength plateaus are inevitable. It doesn't matter if you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced trainee; plateaus are simply part of the training process and must be strategically dealt with. Once you hit a plateau, how you choose to manipulate your sets, reps, and training loads ...
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