Total Body Mass Training It’s become an old adage in bodybuilding training: “everything works, and nothing works for very long.” Yeah, well, that’s true but some programs do work better than others. As a strength trainer (of both myself and others), I’m always trying to come up with new ways to keep the muscle gains—and the strength that my lifters and I crave—coming. Enter Total Body Mass Training . As far as packing on slabs of muscle goes, this one is as good as it gets. (And it also ain’t half bad in the strength department, either.) For a strength and/or muscle-building program to be successful, it needs two factors in order to consistently work. These factors are variety and stability . At first, it might seem that the two factors are diametrically opposed to one another. They’re not. Let me explain. Variety is important because with...
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