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Build Muscle
The Laws of Optimizing Body Composition
Strength athletes know the importance of having more muscle, and the leaner you are, the more muscle you can carry…
Build Muscle
Powerlifing Insights for Bodybuilding Training
Recently, there have been some very good discussions about how powerlifters can benefit their results by incorporating…
Squat
5 Tips for Building a Big Raw Squat
Yeah yeah, I know it’s super lame to do one of these ‘5 tips to blah blah blah” articles. I might as well sell out…
powerlifting
Raw Powerlifting Without the Fluff
As a sport, powerlifting is perhaps one of the simplest. Only weightlifting, with its two lifts over 6 attempts can…
Training
No-Nonsense Periodization for Powerlifting
The entire purpose of powerlifting is brutally simple; to get stronger. Getting stronger involves training heavy…
Recovery
Fatigue Explained
While the terms used to describe it aren’t completely uniform (burnout, overtraining, overreaching, “fried CNS,” etc…)…
Lose Fat
The Little Things
“Don’t sweat the small stuff.” “Just focus on the basics.” There seems to be a trend in the fitness community of…
Lose Fat
Straight Talk About Serious Dieting
Disclaimer: We have presented some articles on the subject of contest dieting and it’s potential pitfalls but feel it…