Anyone who wants to build muscle mass properly must lift heavy weights to the utmost. Anything less than 65% of the 1-Repetition Maximum (1RM) does not cause any hypertrophic effects, according to the American College of Sports Medicine. But are these recommendations still timely? A few years ago, Japanese researchers presented a training method that
Choose your exercises wisely. As the term exercise selection suggests, today’s article is about the exercise selection for muscle growth. More precisely, which exercise to choose to get the best results, ie the best possible muscle growth. So after we already discussed the questions how much? (Volume) how difficult? (Intensity) how exhausting? (Workload) and how
In today’s article I am going to cover the Workload in Weight Training. What actually is “Workload” in Weight Training? And How does it particularly work? This and many more will be addressed in the following. Basically, the workload describes the effort of one working set and thus classifies the performance achieved in a set,
By now the majority of you already has a certain level of knowledge about weight training and fitness in general. Honestly, there are so many different variables to keep track of, not being neglected that it can get quite sometimes. Volume, intensity, the actual programme and nutrition to just name a few. But what about
In today’s article I will address all about Intensity in Weight Training, how it works and how you can assess your own 1RM (One Repetition Maximum) values with easy formulas or by doing a maximum strength test. Intensity Percentage of 1RM In sports science, the intensity describes the percentage of the actual “working” weight in
When talking about building muscle, many people have some dissent on how long a workout should last for optimal muscle growth. Similar to the discussion about whether you should take your protein before or after exercising, there is and always will be divided opinions. So, is it 30 minutes? 45 minutes? 60 minutes? Or even
The full-body exercise plan is the ideal entry into strength training and is also quite suitable for a diet. It is one of the simplest but best forms of strength training for beginners. Whether you want to look better or lay the foundation for bodybuilding, training the whole body several times a week stands out
Nothing but one workout of 15 minutes per week promises to be enough to achieve effective results. Sounds tempting, doesn’t it? EMS Training promises simple and effortless top figure tuning thanks to electricity. The concept is literally electrifying as it increasingly catches on within the fitness society. In today’s article, I’ll scrutinize the current status
Doggcrap? What a name for a training system. Quite funny, isn’t it? It already implies what to expect from this program. Particularly all among yourselves who have ever trained according to DC knows that there is nothing to laugh about. You know what I’m talking about. It hurts. It’s tough. It’s exhausting. But at the
One of the biggest problems in the discussion about training is that, for the most part, we are talking only about physical stressors. We love complex periodization models, we manipulate training volume, intensity, and frequency. In short, we like it when we are in control. Sure, diet and sleep also play their part, but as
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