New Planet Muscle site

Almost every month now, I have an article in Planet Muscle (sometimes every other month—PM hits the newsstands 9 times per year).

If you want to see the last 3 issues of PM—I have an article in each issue—then be sure to check out the new Planet Muscle website. It's loads better than their old site.

You can access it at the link below or by following the link to the right under all my favorites:

http://www.planetmuscle.com/

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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 Big and Strong Series - Chest and Lats

The High-Set, Low-Rep Training Manifesto Part 2: Training the Chest and Lats In Part 1, we discussed some different high-set, low-rep training strategies for the legs and back (squats and pulls). If you have not done so, please read the 1st essay, as it covers some information necessary for understanding the reasoning of the training that will be presented here. At the very least, read the 1st few paragraphs, even if you’re not interested in leg and back training as much as you are interested in upper body training. Maybe you just want a big bench press or just want to look good with your shirt off while at the beach—I don’t know. Even if you are only interested in a good upper body, you will get there much faster, by the way, by training your leg and back muscles. In future essays, we will also cover arm training and overhead press work. I have divided the series into these divergent parts for a r...

The Big and Strong Series - Overhead Training

The High-Set, Low-Rep Training Manifesto Part 3: Overhead Press Training Part 1 - Legs and Back Part 2 - Chest and Lats It’s now time to turn our attention toward overhead training. If you want to get as big, strong, and as jacked as humanly possible, you need to place overhead training in your lifting arsenal. There are several reasons for its importance. Before we get into those reasons, and then some different workout programs that are great for overhead work, I want to discuss something slightly tangential, but it also needs to be considered, especially if you’re going to get the results you want out of this series. Assuming you have read parts 1 and 2—if you haven’t, you may be at a slight loss as to exactly what is being chewed over here, so please do so—you will know, by now, that this training methodology of high-sets (sometimes a lot of ...

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