Muscle Building Articles
Want to build muscle? You're in the right place. These articles will teach you how to build muscle by developing the right nutrition and workout plans for your lifestyle and goals. If you're a beginner we recommend reading our how to build muscle expert guide first.
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Progressive Overload 101: What It Is, How It Works, and How to Apply It
Progressive overload made simple. Learn how to apply weight, reps, volume, and tempo increases to build muscle and strength.
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25 Lessons After 25 Years of Training
In this article, you'll learn 25 valuable lessons on training, nutrition, and recovery to help you become your best self. These tips are backed by science and over 25 years of experience.
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A Beginner's Guide to Zone 2 Cardio
In this article you'll learn what Zone 2 is, how it can help you, and how you can implement it into your personal plan to help you make the most out of your cardio sessions.
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If you want to grow your shoulders, it's going to be extremely beneficial for you to achieve a pump during your shoulder workouts. Try out these 5 tips!
If you're an advanced lifter but still doing straight sets, you're missing out on mass. Learn how ascending loading helps you build muscle faster.
A few words from the wise. Brad Borland takes a look back at his early bodybuilding years and shares a few things he would change if he could do it all over again.
Lifting hard isn't good enough. Cliff Wilson shows you how to maximize your muscle building with proper pre and post-workout nutrition and supplementation.
Here's the great muscle building mystery: why is it that so many workout systems appear to work, yet 90% of lifters are struggling to make decent gains? Find out...
Powerlifter Jeremy Wood details the most brutal workout approach on the planet, Chaos and Pain training. Sample workout included to get you started!
Bodybuilder and contest coach Cliff Wilson explores the concepts of training load and volume, helping you to optimize your training and maximize results.
Attack your back with all of the right exercises. These 10 back building exercises have stood the test of time and will help you build a massive back.
It's bulking season which is the best time of the year to make gains. Before you start your bulk, you should read these 5 tips to make sure it's successful.
We've each been given advice from well-meaning lifters that we later find out to be untrue. This article explores false muscle building beliefs that continue to be passed around.
Wanna build muscle fast? Read this article before you hit the gym. Learn how to train, rest, avoid overtraining and speed recovery. Get the most out of training.
Stop ignoring your hamstrings and put some thought and effort into your training. This article presents 6 solid training options to bolster this strong muscle group.
Looking for a way to challenge your core and build a shredded 6 pack? Give Coach Myers' 10 minute core challenge a try to build a strong & shredded core.
Looking to effectively build some impressive boulder shoulders? Pack on some serious muscle by adding a twist to these traditional shoulder exercises!
This evidence-based article explores the relationship between mind-muscle connection and muscle growth. Learn what the latest research shows and when to apply it to your training.
Paying too much for groceries? Outgrowing your clothes? Can't afford whey protein? Follow these tips, save money and get the results you want.
Phase 1 of the P.B.S. model, the Primer Phase, is designed to create the greatest window of opportunity for you to make muscle-building progress long-term.
Beef up your bench press by improving your set up, rep stroke, assistance exercises, warmup protocol, training program and your mental strength.
Are your forearms feeling (and looking) neglected? Learn how to perform these three exercises that will give you massive, powerful forearms.
Natural bodybuilder Brad Borland lays out a beginner training program, and talks about the effectiveness of the creatine/beta-alanine stack.
Welcome to intensity and more muscle mass! The Venom training system is science-backed and utilizes both very low and high rep ranges to maximize hypertrophy.
Cory Gregory explains how you can get massive chest growth like Arnold by performing one of The Austrian Oak's favorite lifts, the wide-grip incline bench press!
Natural bodybuilder Frank Gigante tells you how to build a wide, thick and impressive back, traps and lats using these 5 muscle building staples.
Ask two seasoned lifters which squat variation is best for overall leg mass and you'll likely receive conflicting opinions. Find out which movement is best for you.
Is it possible to build muscle without gaining fat and burn fat without feeling scrawny? Read on for the secret weapon that helps you get a shredded physique!
Dustin Elliott provides you with information and exercises that help you to get the broad shoulders, wide lats and thick arms of a bodybuilder.
Look no further for guidelines on building a big and thick back. Our road map to building a well defined & complete back covers everything you need to know!
Chest training in a rut? Dustin Elliott provdes you with advanced pec building tips, tricks and routines to get you back on track and growing.
Currently torching a body part once a week and not seeing results? Learn how to increase your training frequency and improve the amount of muscle you build.
Stop worrying about finding the perfect workout and start maximizing your current program. Learn the 5 pillars that create gym success regardless of your program choice.
A 10 part muscle building super series. Part 8 focuses on building the chest, and includes chest anatomy, exercises and workouts for every need.
HIIT, DOMS, BCAAs and PRs? You've seen these acronyms everywhere, now find out what they mean. Each term includes a definition and example of common usage.
Do magazine headlines and tips from fitness gurus leave you scratching your head? Be wary of these BS muscle "facts" that everyone thinks are true.
Break through a bench press rut by tracking progress, establishing proper expectations, improving form, increasing calories and training the bench frequently.
Maik Wiedenbach helps you to view workout structure in a whole new way. Learn the value of targeting each muscle group with a stretch, power and contraction exercise.
Who wins: art or science? Take a look at 3 of the hottest science versus broscience topics: frequent feeding, post-workout nutrition and fasted morning cardio.
High volume, high intensity, heavy weight and time under tension. Dustin Elliott explains which is best for muscle growth, and which can lead to overtraining.
Are you the scrawny guy in the weight room who can't gain a single pound no matter what you eat? This article contains 6 strategies for the “hardgainer”/ectomorph.
Are you working hard but still not getting any bigger? Here are 5 secrets to gains that even fitness professionals aren't willing to share.
For truly massive quads, you've got to hit them hard in the gym. Try these 4 training tricks to start packing on more size and strength!
In an interview with veteran lifter and personal trainer Barry Fritz, Barry shares muscle-building tips from his 40+ years experience in strength training.
Learn everything there is to know about back training and how to build a massive back. This article covers back exercise selection and training frequency.
Jeremy Wood tells you how to improve your strength totals via the integration of conditioning work such as barbell complexes, hill sprints and more!
Odds are you're guilty of these. Learn which lagging muscles the majority of bodybuilders have & the correct exercises you should be doing to build them.
Think you've heard it all when it comes to shoulder training? Think again! This article from Maik Weidenbach contains 9 delt destroying tips you may never have seen before.
Cory Gregory and M&S present a free 8 week program to help drop bodyfat and increase strength. This feature includes a downloadable PDF trainer, instructional videos and a diet plan.
Have you hit a training plateau? How do you add weight to the bar to maximize your progress? Learn the ins and outs of weight progression.
Do arm day the right way with these 10 tips to maximize arm workout pumps and this 3 week sample bicep and tricep workout designed to build bigger arms!
Build stronger abs without punishing your lower back. It's time to try a new abdominal training approach; one that sets aside spinal flexion without sacrificing effectiveness.
Is one "all out" set training really viable for building muscle mass? Learn how to maximize each set through the use of rep tempo, time under tension and more.
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Want to build muscle? You're in the right place. These articles will teach you how to build quality lean muscle mass. If you're a beginner we recommend reading our how to build muscle expert guide first.
