EUGENIZATION.

Yesterday I was sent three different links to the same compelling study (thanks guys):
Fast/Glycolytic muscle fiber growth reduces fat mass and improves metabolic parameters in obese mice.
which I’m sure sounds exactly like something you’d want to read about in your spare time. 
Let me cut to the chase: the mice in the study were fed the [...]

“Hey, whadduya bench?”
What if you never tested your max?
What if you didn’t care to?
One of my clients asked me recently what I thought he could maximally lift in bench press based on his current level. While it’s impossible to know what his true one-repetition maximum (the maximal amount of weight he can bench just [...]

Thomas, the gregarious meat monger at my local Ottomanelli meat shop asked me:
“…but don’t I need to work the muscle from all different angles? Won’t my results be limited if I only do bench for chest and not decline and incline?”
(A bit of context is needed here - Thomas originally asked me why he’d stopped [...]

…by “remembering” the rest of your body.
Typically, when performing an exercise, you’re taught to focus only on the muscles that exercise purports to target. For example, in the bench press, the primary movers are the chest, shoulder, and triceps muscles. So it’s not incorrect to focus on using and feeling these muscle groups [...]

The question I hear most frequently from guys in the Spike TV demographic (18-34) is:
“I’m lifting weights pretty regularly, but I’m not getting any bigger. Why not?”
First off, it’s interesting to see what most guys do in the weight room (*cough curls chest flyes and bench *cough). Knowing that most people lift with the intensity [...]