Over the course of the previous three years Daryl had transformed himself into one strong dude. That’s because Daryl was smart. A graduate of Yale and a successful business man at only 27, Daryl was smart enough to know not waste time pussyfooting around with little foo-foo exercises.

He focused on big, manly exercises like squats, deadlifts and presses. Progressive overload was all that mattered to Daryl so he added weight or reps and gradually built up his strength to a very impressive level.

Of course, with that added strength comes a [...]

Training first thing in the morning is never going to be ideal. In a perfect world you’d be up for a few hours so that you give your body temperature a chance to get elevated and get the fluid moving that has settled in your discs overnight.

But we don’t live in a perfect world and a lot of people have to train first thing in the morning or they’ll never get their workouts done. If that describes you I have some advice that could help you out.

First of all you [...]

I’ll never forget the first time I saw the Road Warriors back in 1984. I was ten at the time and my friend Lance had slept over the night before. We always watched WWF wrestling on Saturday mornings but on this day we happened to catch some AWA action on ESPN.

Iron Man by Black Sabbath played and the two most jacked up, badass looking mofo’s I’d ever seen, wearing face pain and spiked shoulder pads ran to the ring. I didn’t even know what traps were called at the time [...]

Today I have a short interview with my buddy, Tyler English, who is a champion professional natural bodybuilder, strength coach, gym owner and author.

Jay: Give me your top three best training tips for guys looking to get jacked.

Tyler: Focus on the Big Movements
This isn’t something new to your followers, but all too often bodybuilders are given the stereotype of training simply for the pump. In the natural bodybuilding world we use those compound movements as the staple of all our strength training programs. Training for the pump is still [...]