It’s been engrained in our minds for at least the last ten years – spread your daily caloric intake over six small meals to stimulate the metabolism and burn more fat. Open up any diet book and seemingly the first thing you read is that you should eat six meals per day. But is [...]
If I had a time machine, I’d go back to my senior year in high school. There I would tell my young ignorant self what I now know about fast muscle growth. In fact, I’d tell my football coaches the same thing too! It would have probably saved me countless hours in the gym and [...]
I’ve been lifting weights for almost 40 years now and over those years I’ve had my ups and downs with my training like most people. However, over the last month and a half I’ve been in the biggest training funk that I’ve ever experienced. It’s to the point where I don’t even feel like training [...]
When I first started this blog, my vision was to locate the best information I could find on physique enhancement and to share it with my readers. My goal is to weed out all the nonsense and misinformation on building muscle and losing fat, so that anyone reading my blog can reach their goal of looking ‘awesome’ [...]
When it comes to back training, in my opinion I don’t think there’s a better exercise for building muscle in the lats than the pull up. I love pull ups. I try to do some almost everyday and my back has responded very well. I’ve built a lot more width and I’m loving it! However, [...]
Ideally I like to train between 4-5 times per week with weights. But like many of you, sometimes getting to the gym can be tough. Whether it be work deadlines or college finals, sometimes you just don’t have that hour to an hour and a half to train. No problem. You can still get in [...]
Today we’re going to talk about cinnamon. “What?” I can hear the chatter already. ” Ken, we’re here to learn how to build an awesome physique, not bake a cake!” Well, it just so happens that eating cinnamon CAN help you build an awesome physique. Dr Clay Hyght posted on his blog the benefits of [...]
If you’ve been weight training as long as I have, you’ve probably had your fair share of injuries along the way. I know I have. Over the years I’ve had issues with my shoulders, elbows, low back and knees. I’ve been able to work around most of them except for my knees. This is a [...]
I’ve been training with weights for over 37 years. During that time it seems like I’ve tried just about every training system known to man. I’ve tried ‘Heavy Duty’, giant sets, drop sets, super sets, rest pause, eccentric only, partial reps, forced reps, eccentric less, mechanical drop sets, isometrics, very high reps (100 at a [...]
When I first started out weight training in the mid-seventies, everything seemed a lot simpler than it is today. To get a big chest, you benched. If you wanted bigger legs, you did squats. The cure for puny biceps – barbell curls. Today there are so many more different machines and training techniques, that the [...]
