Health & Fitness Blog — Training

When it comes to sculpting those arms, understanding the muscles you're targeting is crucial. So, before you even pick up a weight, let's ensure you have a solid grasp of the muscles involved and their functions.   Biceps and Triceps: The Basics Biceps: Location: The biceps are located on the front of your upper arm, running from your shoulder down to your elbow. Composition: It's called 'bi-ceps' because it has two parts or "heads": The long head (outer part) which creates the peak when you flex during biceps exercises. The short head (inner part) which gives width to the bicep. Triceps: The triceps are...

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Guest article written by Tom Sheppard of Phoenix Performance Training. We meet again, avid reader. Welcome to Chapter 2 of this article series on training volume about hypertrophy. In Chapter 1, we covered the main factors that stimulate hypertrophy. After all, we can’t talk about how to train for hypertrophy without knowing what causes it. Now the geeky stuff is out of the way; we can start to get into the more interesting and applicable material.  Knowing how much training volume to do is a difficult thing to decipher. After all, you have successful training programs that use a wide variety...

Guest article written by Tom Sheppard of Phoenix Performance Training. We all want to be jacked. Even those of us who claim to do it for health benefits, performance (in strength sports or other sports), or whatever other reason. Being more jacked gives us more confidence, makes moving house infinitely easier, and helps make the sad head voice go away for a little while. So, considering that just about everyone in the weights room is after hypertrophy in at least some capacity, very few understand what stimulates hypertrophy and even further understand how much work they need to do to...