New "Planet Muscle" article

Okay, everyone, be sure to check out the latest issue of Planet Muscle magazine (Jan/Feb 2010 issue). If it hasn't already hit your local newsstand, it should do so soon.

I have an article in it entitled "Split Training for Ultimate Muscle Size" (pg.61). I really do believe that the workout I lay out in the article is the best split workout in existence if your goal is muscle mass—as opposed to just strength. (And, yes, I still love full-body workouts.)

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Marvin Eder’s Mass-Building Methods

The Many and Varied Mass-Building Methods of Power Bodybuilding’s G.O.A.T. Eder as he appeared in my article "Full Body Workouts" for IronMan magazine. In many ways, the essay you are now reading is the one that has had the “longest time coming.” I have no clue why it has taken me this long to write an article specifically on Marvin Eder, especially considering the fact that I have long considered him the greatest bodybuilder cum strength athlete of all friggin’ time . In fact, over 20 years ago, I wrote this in the pages of IronMan magazine: In my opinion, the greatest all-around bodybuilder, powerlifter and strength athlete ever to walk the planet, Eder had 19-inch arms at a bodyweight of 198. He could bench 510, squat 550 for 10 reps and do a barbell press with 365. He was reported to have achieved the amazing feat of cranking out 1,000 dips in only 17 minutes. Imagine doing a dip a second for 17 minutes. As Gene Mozee once put ...

Same But Different

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Everything Moderate

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