Extra Workouts for Improving Recovery, Enhancing Performance, and Maximizing Gains When lifters think about workouts, it’s usually either lifting or bust. It’s either hard and heavy barbell and dumbbell sessions or nothing. But it shouldn’t be this way. No matter how “hardcore” of a lifter or bodybuilder you are—perhaps you’re one of those guys that thinks anything over 5 reps is “cardio,” as I once certainly did—you need to do some stuff other than just heavy weight training. The truth is that the more serious you are about lifting, even more do you need to take advantage of non-lifting workouts. These extra sessions might very well be the difference between gaining another 10 pounds of muscle or not, or between winning your powerlifting meet or just coming in 2 nd place. When it comes to being your very best, it is the little things that matter. I first started lifting as a teenager, more...
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