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The High-Protein, High-Set Program
A.K.A. - How to Gain 40 Pounds of Bulk in 8 WeeksJohn McCallum’s High-Frequency, High-Volume Routine for Rapid Mass Gains In the 1960s, John McCallum wrote arguably the greatest monthly column the...
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New E-Book Available: Ultimate Mass and Power Essays!
I have a brand new e-book available for purchase at Amazon. If you would like to buy a copy, here's the link:Ultimate Mass and Power Essays: A Collection of Essays, Thoughts, and Ideas for Getting...
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Fasting and Heavy Training
Question: I compete in powerlifting. I am interested in dropping down a weight class and want to try intermittent fasting to do so. Will it be possible for me to keep my strength, or even get...
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Fudoshin: Cultivating an Immovable Mind
“Attaining the way means attaining it completely with the whole body. With this awareness you should practice immovably.” ~Dogen Zenji In this essay—as odd as it might seem at first—I want to use a...
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Light Workouts
How to Utilize Light Workouts for More Strength, Power, Mass, and All-Around Athleticism When it comes to “things that confuse the average lifter,” I think it’s possible that the light-day concept...
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Weight Selection
How to Select the Weights Used During Your Workouts Bill Starr said one time that the most confusing aspect of setting up a strength program is selecting the poundages to be used for the various...
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Train Easy, Repeat Often
High-Frequency Training Parameters and Programming Ideas Yesterday, I was sitting in my garage gym—pen and paper in hand as I jotted down some different article ideas—watching my son Garrett go...
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How to Design a Heavy/Light/Medium Program
Heavy/Light/Medium TrainingPart One: The Basics of Program Design This past week, I received an email from a reader asking if I would write an article on how to design a heavy, light, medium...
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Real Bodybuilding the Old-School Way
How Classic Bodybuilders Gained Mass, Sculpted Their Physiques, and Achieved Fantastic Condition! Ever since I first picked up a muscle magazine in the 1980s, I have loved the old-school,...
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Heavy/Light/Medium Training for Upper Body Size and Strength
Heavy/Light/Medium TrainingPart Two: Bill Starr’s Secrets for Upper Body Bulk and Power+How to Move to a 4 Days a Week Program This is, as the title indicates, the 2nd part of our new, ongoing...
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Freestyle Training
Instinctive Mass-Building with Dave Draper’s “Freestyle” Workouts It’s usually called instinctive training. It’s often referred to as “auto-regulation” these days. Dave Draper called it freestyle...
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Heavy, Light, Medium Training: Build a Monster Squat!
Heavy/Light/Medium TrainingPart Three: How to Build a Massive Squat In this, the 3rd part of our series on heavy, light, and medium training, we’ll take a look at how you can build a superhuman...
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Heavy/Light/Medium Training for a Massive Back!
Heavy/Light/Medium TrainingPart 4: Building a Massive Back and Monstrous Pulling Strength This is the 4th part of our ongoing series on heavy, light, and medium training inspired by the methods of...
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Real Bodybuilding: Old-School Arm Specialization
An Old-School Program for Shirt-Busting Biceps and Titanic Triceps This essay is the start of a planned series on old-school, real bodybuilding training. It is a follow-up, however, to an article...
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High-Volume Hypertrophy
A State-of-the-Art Mass & Power Program for Outlandish Gains I’m fond of some forms of training over others. This doesn’t mean, however, that I believe there is one training program or method...
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2-Way Training Splits for Mass & Power
The Best Two-Way Training Splits for Inducing Hypertrophy and Unleashing Impressive Gains in Strength I’m fond of full-body workouts. In fact, if you’re new to training, and you stumbled upon this...
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A Heavy/Light/Medium Training Miscellany
Heavy/Light/Medium TrainingPart 5: An H/L/M Miscellany – On Variation and Advanced Options This is the 5th part of our ongoing series on heavy, light, and medium training based on the coaching of...
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Squat Specialization for Mass!
Real Bodybuilding: A Squat Specialization Program for Huge Gains in Mass and Strength “I started Marvin on weights a couple of years ago as a bet. It was a mistake. He got to like it. Marvin’s...
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Heavy/Light/Medium Training: Getting Bigger
Heavy/Light/Medium TrainingPart 6: Getting BiggerStarr in his competitive daysA Sample Workout Program + Bill Starr’s Dietary Advice for Adding Bulk Bill Starr had some damn sagely advice for...
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The Two Barbell Rule
Minimalist Training for Maximum Gains I made the mistake today of reading one of the popular bodybuilding websites. Occasionally I do this, but almost always regret it shortly after. Today was...
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On Lent and Lifting
Thoughts on Fasting, Training, Self-Sacrifice, and the Intersection of Religious Practice and Lifting I am an Orthodox Christian. I was baptized and chrismated in a “Slavic” Orthodox Church before...
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Grip Work for More Mass, Strength, and Power
I apologize for the delay in posts this month. I just returned from a vacation to my home state of Texas and simply wasn't able to get the writing done out there that I had PLANNED on doing....
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Heavy/Light/Medium Training: How to Design a Powerlifting Program
Heavy/Light/Medium TrainingPart 7: How to Design a Powerlifting Program Using the H/L/M System At the beginning of February, I started this series on H/L/M training using the methods of the late,...
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Hybrid Easy Strength
How to Design a “Hybrid” Easy Strength Program If you have read even an inkling of my writings—especially over the last 20 years—you know that I’m a fan of high-frequency training (HFT). Now, I...
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Easy Strength Mass Building
5 Tips to Turn an Easy Strength Program into a Mass Building Regimen As regular readers know, I’m a fan of high-frequency training (HFT, for short). In particular, I regularly promote...
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