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Can you allow your significant other to impact your fitness decisions? Should he or she influence when and how much you train? What you put in your mouth? Is your significant other helping you reach your goals or preventing you from achieving them? It’s a serious issue that needs further exploration. What do you do if you have trouble sleeping? Especially on days you train? You better have a solution because no sleep = no gains. Do supplements work? Which ones? What kind of diet should your dad follow? Can you make gains training just twice per week? What should… continue reading.

By Nick Nilsson Overtraining is NOT evil. In fact, overtraining can be exactly what you need to achieve continuous and rapid results in your training and breakthrough muscle-building plateaus! So first, what IS overtraining? Overtraining is, most simply, training too much. Your body is unable to recover from the volume or frequency of training and begins to break down. You not only lose motivation to train, you become more susceptible to injury and illness, and you may even start to go backwards in your training, getting smaller and weaker on almost a daily basis. So how can overtraining possibly be… continue reading.

Guns, jacks, pipes, hooks, pythons… Whatever you call them, the fact remains that most guys want to know how to build bigger arms. While they are nowhere near as impressive, rarely seen and as intimidating as a big set of traps, you still don’t want to have and extra six inches of space in your shirt sleeves; that’s for sure. So the question is how do you go about building bigger arms? The answer is not as simple as you might assume. If it were easy, you would see tons of guys walking around with 18 inch… continue reading.