A.K.A: Kenji in the Twilight My dogs Kiko and Kenji (left to right). The reason for their picture at the start of this essay will make sense shortly. Conversations on Integral Bodybuilding Part One: A Somewhat Rambling Introduction to Integral Hypertrophy Training I was tired. I had spent the last hour cutting grass, running my weed eater, planting Asian lilies, and watering my gardens. I was hot and sweaty, too. If I still drank, I would have popped open a cold beer—porters and stouts were always my favorite—but I haven’t touched a drop of alcohol in over a year. I have a disease that robbed me of that particular joy, so I settled on a bottle of refrigerated mineral water. It was refreshing, and what my body needed, anyway. The sun was setting. Twilight was upon the land. The last vestiges of orange sunlight slipped through the canopy of trees at the edge of the rolling hi...
Minimal Equipment, Maximum Results Tips and Suggestions for Designing and Implementing a Home Gym Workout with Nothing but a Barbell You really don’t need much equipment to get great results from training. In fact, sometimes the more equipment you have—an array of barbells, dumbbells, kettlebells, benches, racks, and other implements—the worse your results. Why? Too many choices. After all, you can go to almost any big, corporate gym anywhere in America—gyms with all of the machines and weights you can imagine—and see that most trainees aren’t getting good results. So, yeah, I often think this is because lifters have too many choices. You could cancel your gym membership today, head to your local sports store and buy nothing but an Olympic barbell set with no more than 300 pounds, and get great results with only that barbell. Oh, you’d also save a lot of money in the long run, too. Yo...