Muscle Mass AND Serious Strength: The Best Way to Train for Both! There seems to be quite a bit of confusion out there—whether it’s on the internet or at the gym—about how to train for BOTH hypertrophy and serious strength gains. The first problem seems to be that some folks just don’t know how to do either. Guys go to the gym to “get big” but then spend most of their time attempting to max out on a lift. Or, conversely, a guy wants to be massively strong but spends too much of his time training for a pump or doing a lot of repetitions. If your goal is just hypertrophy, then don’t train like a strength athlete. You should focus on pump-style training, “feeling a muscle” instead of working the movement, and ensuring that you can do more and more work for each individual bodypart. If your goal is just strength, then you need to train for strength. This means doing only a few core exercises—the ones you are training to get stronger on—and doing either a “Westside-st
Casey Viator’s Old-School “Killer” Biceps Program Casey Viator is probably most well-known—almost infamous, truth be told—for his role in the so-called “Colorado Experiment” used by Arthur Jones to “prove” the validity of his brief, basic “H.I.T” Nautilus training over other training methodologies. (Jones invented the Nautilus machine, by the way, so he had some money—and a reputation—at stake.) Anyway, Viator gained over 60 pounds in only 28 days using (something like) just 12 workouts that lasted no longer than 30 minutes each. This is not the place to get into the Colorado Experiment—I don’t think I’ve written about it before now, so maybe I’ll leave a future essay just to it—but let’s just say that a lot of the “facts” may not be the facts, after all. Especially if Boyer Coe is to be believed. In a few interviews with him in some of the ‘90s muscle rags, he said that Viator would actually sneak away from the Nautilus facility, where he would visit a local gym and do mor