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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The 5x10x5 Program

A HIgh-Frequency Muscle-Building Routine So Simple That It Seems Almost Too Good to Be True A few years ago, after suffering from some herniated discs that were causing me pain, I experimented with a program so simple that I wasn’t sure it would work. I should have known better. After utilizing it, and getting good results, I thought it was even too simple to write about. Readers might think I had gone off the deep end. But I didn’t. And I haven’t. I’m currently using the program right now, after taking a week-long layoff in order to prepare myself for a “bigger” program a few weeks down the road. Before using this program, I had already had a lot of success with easy strength methods. I write about them quite a bit, so, unless this is your first time reading one of my articles, you’re already well-aware of the methodology. With easy strength, you, typically, do no more than 10 r...

The Big and Strong Series - Legs and Back

The High-Set, Low-Rep Training Manifesto Part 1: Training the Legs and Back In several of my recent essays and articles, I have discussed various HFT methods, most of them using higher volume. Starting with this article, I’m now going to turn my attention to a series of essays on (what I believe to be) the most effective method for attaining a combination of muscle mass and serious strength: workouts that combine high sets with (relatively) low reps. I’m going to do a series for one primary reason—different lifts/muscle groups should be trained in different ways. I will cover legs and back (this one), shoulders (overhead press training), chest and lats, and arm training. Each of those are best developed when trained a little bit different from one another. So, we will have 4 parts, with, perhaps, some additional essays on how to bring the 4 together into a cohesive, holistic strength program or on anything else that come...

The High-Frequency, High-Volume Training Strategy

Some Thoughts and Tips on How to Design a High-Frequency, High-Volume Workout Program I believe some of the best training programs available are ones that utilize high-frequency training (HFT). I think that many lifters, bodybuilders, and just casual trainees believe that they are so-called hardgainers for one simple reason: they’ve used low-frequency programs (whether they were high-volume workouts, high-intensity routines or a combination of both) and could never get good results. Many of these same lifters, if they were to engage in HFT, may discover that being a “hardgainer” becomes a thing of the past. The one issue, however, that I have found with HFT is this: lifters often find it hard to properly program. And because of this lack of understanding, they either use it improperly and then give up on it too soon or they never give it a chance in the first place. In this essay, I want to show you how ...

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