Quote of the Day: Masutatsu Oyama

"If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote the maximum of his life to, I would answer: training. Train more than you sleep."

—Masutatsu Oyama (founder of Kyokushin Karate-Do)

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The Squat and Grow Big Program

A Hybrid High-Frequency Regimen for Natural Mass-Building I have long been a fan of high-frequency training (HFT) and other methods of lifting that go against the stream of most modern training. This is especially true of strictly muscle-building methods. Perhaps it’s hubris on my part to think that I know better than bodybuilders lifting in today’s gyms, but I think there are better methods for the natural bodybuilder than what is currently used by the vast majority of lifters (at least in the West—bodybuilders in East Europe are another story). Infrequent training simply isn’t a good method for the majority of lifters if their goal is to gain muscle mass. And by “majority” I mean natural lifters. Steroids change the equation—and change it big time . Anabolic steroid use is often cited as the reason why bodybuilders from the ‘70s, ‘80s, and early ‘90s (before Dorian ...

Train Heavy. Train Often.

If you’re a natural lifter who wants to gain plenty of muscle mass but also the strength to go with it, I think there are three things that are paramount. First, you need to train heavy. Second, you need to train often. And third, you need to remain fresh while doing the first two. If you’re a student of the lifting game, and if something about my above statement seems vaguely familiar, there’s an explanation for that. I basically paraphrased the great Russian strength coach Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky, who, rather famously, said that the key to strength training was “to train as heavy as possible as often as possible while being as fresh as possible.” That quote is well-known for a reason. Following it judiciously will unlock a lot of strength and hypertrophy gains. Of course, there are a couple caveats to that statement. You need to be training with barbel...

My book ULTIMATE MASS & POWER now available in paperback

My book "Ultimate Mass and Power: A Collection of Training Programs for Getting Massively Big and Incredibly Strong" is now available to purchase in a paperback edition. (Click on the link to purchase.) Here's a description of the book: Are you looking for massive muscles? Monstrous strength gains? How about a combination of 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. The training programs contained in this book will clear up this confusion. Herein you will find 16 different articles—each article replete with different programs—that offer...

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