How To Build Muscle Without Weights, Dynamic-Tension Revised

By Paul Becker, Copyright © 2008 by Paul Becker. Why would anyone want to workout without weights? Everyone knows that using weights and machines is the fastest most efficient way to gain size and strength. While this is true, there are many resons why someone would want to, or even be forced to train for a while without the benefit [...]

A Five-Day Training Routine For Everyone

Training routines come and go. You switch from a six-day to a four-day and back, all in search for the perfect one. Push/pull? Days on/off? Cadio before or after weights? One can drive him/herself crazy trying to figure it out. We have tried to simplify things a bit and feel that this is a program [...]

The Physics Of Weight Lifting, Part 5: Power

By Paul Becker - In our final installment of this series we’ll look at the formula for power and how to use it to make training more productive. The formula for power is: Force X Distance -:- Time. And is measured in foot-pounds/second. In the last article we talked about work and how to calculate your [...]

The Physics Of Weight Lifting, Part 3: Mechanical Advantage

By Paul Becker, copyright © 2008 Paul Becker - Here in the third part of this series we will examine mechanical advantage and how this effects weight training and how it can be used to our advantage to get better/faster results. Mechanical Advantage – is the ratio of the force exerted by a machine to the force [...]

Peary Rader’s One-Day Muscle Blast Program Revisited

By Paul Becker, copyright © 2008 Paul Becker – In The Rader Master Bodybuilding and Weight Gaining System, Peary told us about a program he developed that could add up to 3/4 of an inch to a trainees arms in one day. The program goes like this – pick a day when you can do nothing [...]

The Vacuum Pose – A Lost Art in Bodybuilding (Part 2)

By Michael Manavian - (The following is part one of a three-part series) One question if I may…vacuum poses…how!?!  I have been trying to work on this, do you have any suggestions? Ahhh… the vacuum. Part II Hoover or Dyson I was very fortunate to be introduced to weight training focusing on structure first before building [...]

Answer the Bell

Personal Trainers will Incorporate Many Different Styles into Programs; It’s Your Job to Find the Right One By Matthew Sgro This is part of a continuing series provided exclusively by MuscleSport Mag entitled, “This is Your Magazine,” where we profile the every-day athlete. If you would like to see yourself profiled here, please send us [...]

Functional Training

What it Means and Why Uniqueness is a Quality Trait By Matthew Sgro This is part of a continuing series provided exclusively by MuscleSport Mag entitled, “This is Your Magazine,” where we profile the every-day athlete. If you would like to see yourself profiled here, please send us your story and photo to superbas@optonline.net. The [...]

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