More Anthony Ditillo Training Wisdom for Developing Size and Strength My recent essay on the training methods of the great bodybuilding writer Anthony Ditillo has proven quite popular, more so than I thought it would be when I posted it. When I wrote it, I knowingly left out a few of his training routines due to length constraints. I was afraid it was a bit too long as is when I finished it, since my shorter articles tend to get the most views. Besides, I figured I could always write more down the road, though “down the road,” in this case didn’t prove to be very long. Ditillo was a huge proponent of using the “big,” basic barbell movements—squats, overhead presses, bench presses, bent-over rows, deadlifts, barbell curls, and the like. But in one of his many articles for Ironman , he wrote that there were three movements in particular that were all you needed to, in his words, “build great massiveness a...
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