Hypertrophy Training

Tracking muscle gain with any degree of accuracy is extremely difficult, particularly once your newbie gains are out of the way. Once you’ve moved past the beginner stages of training, building muscle at a decent rate will typically require adjusting and fine-tuning your training program. Problem is, the need for fine adjustments tends to increase […]

To build muscle as fast as humanly possible, you need to give yourself enough rest between sets. If your inter-set rest intervals are too short, your performance during subsequent sets will suffer, which in turn is going to put the brakes on muscle growth. However, the downside of resting for 2-3 minutes between sets is […]

Should you train to failure if you want to make your muscles grow as fast as humanly possible? Or will you do just as well leaving a few reps in reserve? The argument in favor of training to failure goes something like this… If you want to build muscle as fast as humanly possible, you […]

How long should you rest between sets to build muscle? Is 60 seconds enough? Is 5 minutes too long? Are shorter rest periods better for weight loss? Let’s find out. The short and simple answer to the question is 2 minutes. That’s how long you should rest between sets if you want to build muscle, […]

Do high reps build muscle? Or are heavy weights and low reps the only way to go? Long story short, both high reps with low weights AND low reps with high weights do a similar job of building muscle. That is, you’ll see similar levels of growth with sets of 5 reps, sets of 15 […]

If you’re looking for a weight training warm-up that’s relatively quick, effective and contains nothing complicated or fancy, this page will show you what to do. A good warm-up helps to prepare the joints, the muscles and the nervous system that controls those muscles for the harder work to come. However, while warming up can […]