When it comes to a person’s physique, everyone has a unique set of goals and their own interpretation of what is aesthetically pleasing. Take a look around the gym and you’ll no doubt see a variety of training methods and physiques to match. For instance, you may observe the stereotypical muscle-head, who loves nothing [...]
Training Program Design 101: Fundamentals
Designing training programs for athletes is such a fascinating endeavor. There are endless opportunities to infuse and mix time-proven resistance training methodologies, and perhaps even create your own. Ask any coach here at TSG, we will be the first ones to tell you that there is no correct way to train. But there [...]
Come On Man! Why No Glutes?
In all honesty these are some bogus excuses. At the end of the day men choose not to target their glute muscles because they either do not know how to activate them properly, it’s too hard for them, or their good ole egos kick in while performing curls in the squat rack. There is nothing worse as a man putting on a pair of jeans [...]
Keeping Track of Rest Periods – Is It Worth It?
Why do we always look at the time to see if it’s 5 pm yet at work? We are always keeping track of time, but why is it that we don’t keep track of time when we are training, as in our rest periods? We’ve found that a lot of people don’t do it simply because they are always in a rush, too lazy to keep track of it, or they don’t understand the [...]
The “Ab” Solute Truth
As for training, let’s first dispel the myth that the abs are some magical muscle group that’s unlike any other in the human body and need to be trained higher reps than the pecs and biceps. Every skeletal muscle in the human body responds the same way. You can, and should, train your abs in the 8-12-rep range to increase their size [...]
The “Closers”: 5 Ways To Finish Your Workouts Strong
Sometimes, it feels like you’ve had 95 percent of a great workout. Which is better than nothing, but still… Here’s how to hit the 100-percent mark with 5 different body parts. “Leave it all on the field,” high school coaches like to snarl at their young charges. Unfortunately, at the gym [...]
The Ultimate Guide To Mountain Peak Biceps
Hours upon hours of blood, sweat and tears go into training and torturing this often stubborn body part. We look up to our “brothers in arms” over the years such as Larry Scott, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Matarazzo, and Phil Heath in hopes to find some kind of “secret” or magic program that we can put into practice. These guys [...]
The Ultimate Guide To Teenage Bodybuilding
At 26 years old, I still remember my teenage years very clearly. I was bullied, pushed around, and was the butt of every joke. I had virtually no self esteem and no feeling of self-worth. At a certain point I decided that it was time to start doing something about it, rather than spend the rest of my school days feeling sorry for myself. [...]
The Ultimate Guide To Shredded Six Pack Abs
One of the most sought-after bodyparts by trainers everywhere is abdominals. It seems everybody wants them, but few have them. Many toil away in the gym with sit-up after sit-up and crunch after crunch only to face sore abs and a declining motivation. Others don’t worry at all about their abs and neglect training them [...]
10 Simple Rules To Teenage Mass Gains
When I was a teen I didn’t want to eat and it showed. I was an imposing six-foot-one and 125 pounds of skin and bones. I was highly active with energy to spare, but knew nothing about the benefits of eating enough of the right kind of foods. It wasn’t until I started weight training to pack on some pounds that I found out the [...]
