Whether you’re a competitive or casual bodybuilder, good conditioning is essential to display the fruits of your labor in the gym. You’ve been training hard to build muscle mass, and now it’s time to go on a cutting diet to lose that body fat covering your abs and get lean and shredded. But how long … Read more
Do you want to grow and train like a bodybuilder? Then you need a bodybuilding training split! In this article, you’ll learn everything you need to know about dividing your muscle groups up, scheduling your training sessions over the week, and finding which workout split is the right one for you. We’ll cover ten different … Read more
Male and female muscles get bigger and stronger by lifting weights. But is it harder for women to build muscle? Do males have more muscle mass than women? Those are just two questions we’ll answer in this article. Male and Female Muscle: Similar but Different Men and women have many things in common. However, subtle … Read more
Should you use light or heavy weights if you want to build muscle and strength? Perhaps moderate weights trump them both? For years or even decades, the question of strength training load has been contested. Many studies and scientific articles examine the subject, not to mention the heated discussions in gyms between proponents of one … Read more
Key Points: The bench press works the lateral head of your triceps well – even better than tricep extensions. The bench press does not work the long and medial head of your triceps well – but tricep extensions do. Combine bench pressing with tricep extensions to work all heads of your triceps. Does bench pressing … Read more
Key Points: Lat pulldowns have been shown to work (and grow) the biceps muscle just as good as barbell curls. At least in untrained subjects. Adding barbell curls to a program of lat pulldowns doesn’t lead to further muscle growth in the biceps. Once again, in untrained subjects. Rows only work your biceps half (50%) … Read more
The stronger the better, right? But does that hold even if your main, or even only, training goal is gaining muscle mass? That question is also the topic of the day for this article. To help us answer that question, we have a brand new study to dissect. An interesting one, to boot, with trained … Read more
StrengthLog’s Strength & Size – and all our other programs – are available in our workout tracker app! Download StrengthLog for free with the buttons below: Do you want to train each muscle group more often than with Bodybuilding Ballet? Does the rolling schedule of Bodybuilding 313 not fit your personal schedule? Do you want … Read more
Bodybuilding 313, the new training program for all you aspiring bodybuilders out there who want to build muscle! If you open your StrengthLog workout tracker app today, you will be greeted by a brand new training program! It is a premium bodybuilding program called Bodybuilding 313. That name is not a reference to the license … Read more
Let’s talk bodybuilding! When you’re on stage showing off the physique you have trained and dieted so hard for so long to attain, you obviously want to impress the judges by looking the best you can at that very moment. Not only does this require you to be lean enough, you also want your muscles … Read more