• Cardiovascular Training and Bodybuilding

    Cardiovascular exercise often only falls in to a bodybuilder’s vocabulary either as a feeling of the need to strip away fat, or in reference to their avoidance. Many persons wishing to increase their muscle size avoid moderate intensity cardiovascular exercise for fear of it harming their …

  • Does lifting weights affect the growth in teenagers?

    Teenagers are often attracted to bodybuilding. That's not surprising: pubescence is the age when good looks and physical attraction become hugely important for almost every young man. I started with resistance training in my school gym when I was 14. That was unfortunately a long time ago but I …

  • Combining Aerobic and Resistance Exercise

    Browse the Internet for 15 minutes searching information on “Concurrent Exercise” and you will be under impression that combining aerobic and resistance (weight lifting) exercise is all the rage these days. Enter any larger gym and you’ll see that doing cardio before or after the …

  • The Case of Deep Squat

    Few exercises are more loved and more hated in the same time than barbell squats. And among the many types of squats probably none is considered less controversial than deep squat – or full squat if you wish. For a whole generation of coaches this was the very symbol of evil: knee-crushing, …