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  1. 01dragonslayer

    The Best Trap Exercises You've Never Tried

    Tap into your trap muscle's growth potential by learning about the different fibers the muscle is composed of and the best exercise to hit those fibers. Everyone knows how to train their traps. All you have to do is shrugs right? But, if just doing standard shrugs worked, then why do so few...
  2. 01dragonslayer

    Muscle Fiber Types: What They Are And How to Train Them

    Design your workouts to suit different types of muscle requirements. The more you know about your muscles, the bigger you can build them. We train them. But how much do we know about them. And how do we know what type of muscle fibers we have in the muscle we are training; by knowing what muscle...
  3. 01dragonslayer

    Optimally Training For Muscle Hypertrophy: A Deeper Dive

    EVERY muscle mag that you pick up these days will have an exclusive interview with Joe or Jane Bodybuilder on their revolutionary new training program that will pack on more muscle than one knows what to do with. Get online and search “muscle building programs” and hundreds of styles and...
  4. 01dragonslayer

    How To Break Through Muscle Building Plateaus Using Explosive Lifting

    When you think about building muscle, what types of training come to mind? High volume, high frequency training? Drop sets, extended sets, timed sets? Extended range of motion exercises? Or intra-set stretching? Once you have a base of strength, these methods all work extraordinarily well...
  5. 01dragonslayer

    Should you exercise to failure?

    Exercise to Failure for Muscle Growth - Fact or Fiction By Donovan Baldwin What is exercise to failure? Well, most simply, it's doing repetitions, often multiple sets, until you can't do any more. The muscle fails to perform. That's pretty straightforward, but, is it true? Yes and no...
  6. 01dragonslayer

    How Much Lean Muscle Can You Really Gain?

    You’ve no doubt seen plenty of 30-day transformation stories. If you read enough of these, you may think going from lean to muscular is quick and easy. In real life, however, muscle growth is a much slower process. So, how much muscle can you really expect to gain in a single month? “I’ve seen...
  7. R

    DNA and Sports: What Our Genes Can Tell Us

    The Basics: Muscle Fiber Type and Athletic Ability Human muscle fibers can be classified into two categories. Slow-twitch (red) muscle fibers und fast-twitch (white) muscle fibers. The predominance is determined by our genetics. The ACTN3 (Alpha Actinin) gene is active only in fast-twitch...
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