There are golden fitness rules and there are ‘crazy fitness rules’.  The crazy ones can be eliminated right now.  The golden ones will give you success. Check out 21 below that are just about useless…

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There are many fitness ideas out there today and a lot of junk on the internet. I occasionally even hear crazy things come out of some personal trainers mouths. Here are 21 mistakes that you should avoid at ALL COSTS if you want to get in shape…

1. Doing too much cardio
2. Not lifting enough weight
3. Not lifting weights at all
4. Eating too much crap
5. Participating in “restriction” diets…aka low carb, low fat, etc
6. Not eating enough to support muscle recovery and energy levels
7. Dehydration
8. Not staying committed to the training process
9. Sticking with the same workout for months or even years
10. Long, slow cardio sessions instead of intense conditioning intervals
11. Using machines and single joint movements instead of complex, multi-joint free weight and body weight exercises
12. Not getting enough sleep
13. Reading while performing “conditioning” workouts on the bike…if you are reading, you are not working hard enough
14. Training every single day without recovery days
15. Not working on mobility…if you can’t move, you can’t train properly
16. Not properly stretching or foam rolling after a training session
17. Trying to do everything on your own (hire a trainer or work out with a friend)
18. Training sessions are too long, rest time is too long. Unless you are training for absolute power, you do not need 3+ minutes between sets…Get into the gym and kick butt for 45-60 minutes and leave.
19. Bringing your cell phone to the gym. Get over yourself. Unless it’s an emergency you are not that important
20. Not eating enough fruits and vegetables
21. Too much focus on the scale. Focus on your clothes, body fat percentage, and how you feel

In order to really get fit, in shape, and feeling great you MUST perform strength training workouts, eat a balanced nutrition plan with plenty of fruits, veggies, lean meats, natural protein sources, whole grains, and tons of water, and skip the cardio and replace it with high intensity interval workouts such as sprints, jump rope, hill sprints, or interval runs.

Train hard and smart,

Callie Durbrow, Boston personal trainer

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If you follow these 7 rules, you will lose belly fat, simply because your entire body will be burning fat at all times.

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Read each one, its not complicated – its proven and it is easier than you think.  This is your simple road-map to real results and a fat loss, lean muscle, tight hips and firm body COMBINATION!

1. Strength Training- the BEST way to change your body composition and boost your metabolism so that your body is a fat burning machine, burning fat optimally at all times.

2. Interval conditioning- skip the boring, slow cardio and rev up your metabolism and fat burning capabilities with interval work such as sprints or jumping rope. This type of training creates a metabolic effect that will allow you burn calories at the workout rate for up to 36 hours post workout.

3. Eat breakfast. Skipping breakfast slows the metabolic process down and you will not burn calories at rest as quickly as you should. It can also lead to over eating later in the day. Have a combination of complex carbs and protein and you will feel energized and full.

4. Drink plenty of water. Figure out your body weight (pounds) and drink 1/2 of that in ounces. Staying hydrated keeps your metabolism going and also helps prevent fluid retention.

5. Perform multi-joint movements when strength training. Squats, lunges, pull ups, push ups, and Kettlebell movements are the best for fat loss. You will rev up your metabolism, develop lean and toned muscles, and burn a ton of calories both during and after the training session. Avoid machines and isolated movements if you want to kick that extra belly fat (especially around the middle).

6. Don’t obsess over the scale. Weigh yourself once a week if you have to. Otherwise, just stay away. Focus on your physique, how your clothes feel, and your body composition. Get your body fat percentage tested every 6 weeks if possible. This will ensure that you are losing the right kind of weight. The scale cannot tell the difference.

7. Eat every 3-4 hours. If you starve yourself and restrict calories, your body automatically slows down and you will not efficiently burn fat. Fuel the fire (your metabolism) every several hours with quality foods such as fruits, veggies, lean protein, low fat dairy and healthy fats including nuts and avocados.

Losing body fat (in most cases, belly fat) is a complete process. You must strength train, eat properly and at the right times, perform high intensity interval conditioning, and drink plenty of water. If any of these pieces of the puzzle are lacking, you progress will suffer.
You cannot lose fat in just one spot, but for many women the excess fat lies around the middle of the body. If your body becomes efficient at burning calories while you are NOT working out, you will see drastic changes in your overall composition. Follow these 7 tips and remember that it’s a long term process, not a quick fix. Anyone can lose a few pounds in a week, but to create an efficient fat burning body, you must get in the trenches and do the work.

(*Note from Tris – Callie, SUPERB concise informative post – people, I hope you take these on board as they are the fundamentals – brilliant!)

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For most people the need to burn body fat is one of the highest on a list of desires when they start a fitness program.

Whether it is for the guys wanting to create a more ripped and cut physique or maybe the women who want to drop pounds and show off lean curvacious hips and thighs.

The important thing to remember is that burning excess body fat need not be a hassle or a pain, or something people face wondering if in fact they actually can.

The answer to doing this is a simple one – assuming you are dedicated to your workouts and of course controlling your diet and your caloric intake.

So lets assume you are on top of your diet, you have a regime in place that allows you ‘x’ amount of calories per day and now you just need a workout or a system that is going to blast off those excess calories.

Many people will do a certain workout, a certain type of exercising and follow it for a period of weeks – maybe training 3 days a week etc.  This is good, no knocking anyone who is actually getting in their workouts – I respect anyone who is committed.

However, the one thing I put my clients and customers on is a plan that invloves one concept to base their entire workouts around.

And that concept is True Training Variety.

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Simply put the best results I see in my 15+ years as a fitness pro have come from people who are constantly challenging their body with new and invigorating workout protocol.  I don’t mean just doing a few weeks of one thing and then switching – no, I mean having a workout that will change up consistently and regularly forcing the body through continual periods of adaptation – and in turn never allowing it to hit the plateau where stagnation sets in.

This is very easy to do and ultimately will give people real results in a much more attractive time span.

In my Maverick Intensity Training Program for total body change, lean muscle growth and unlimited fat loss I created a system that would offer up to four unique protocols during workout programs.  Daily changes to the training would encourage the body to stay in an elevated fat burning state, the muscles would constantly be required to adapt to new stimuli and all in all the boredom level would be destroyed as a person would face continual variety in their programs.

This is the way I see mainstreem fitness moving for a typical person wanting to burn body fat, drop calories and still get a workout in that challenges every area of their body.

I believe in incorporating both resistance weight training and body weight training as well as different timing protocols. Ultimately a program or workout system structured with True Training Variety is going to take any person – man or woman – to the next level of results based training AND importantly it will create fat burning increases in their bodies that will excite them to continue along this path in traininig.

Oh, and I also like to mention that I prefer workouts that are intense, rapid and done within an hour max – you don’t need to be in a gym for hours on end for the purpose of body transformation and ultimate fat loss.

Women need to work out with progressive and challenging workout protocols to easily begin burning stubborn tummy fat

We’re all busy and my techiniques and the new fitness concepts beginning to hit mainstream fitness are all sensibly designed to save time but ramp up results.

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Until next time,

Cheers!
Tristan

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Go-To Maverick Fitness Pro Callie Dubrow Knows Exactly How Women Should Train

Strength training is THE MOST important way to lose fat. Often times though, it’s the thing that women avoid because of the notion that they will turn into some pumped up body builder as soon as the pick up the weights.

This will not happen and I’ll explain why later. Here’s the real truth and the inside scoop on how you can lose fat, tighten your entire body and just look flat out amazing…

Lose Body Fat—>Boost Your Metabolism—>This is done through a balanced diet and increasing LEAN MUSCLE—> Resistance Training

There is the formula folks….it’s simple and does not involve a lot of complex hours at the gym, fancy machines or running miles.  Here’s why it works…

The more lean muscle tissue that you body has, the more calories you will burn at rest. This is what happens when we talk about increasing your metabolism. The long term goal is to have your metabolism at a high level constantly. That leads to fat loss. Why does this happen? Because lean muscle is a very active tissue and needs calories (energy) to burn at a much higher rate than fat.

Women need to have lean muscle - period.

When you have a high amount of lean muscle tissue, you will be burning calories when you are not working out (cool, huh?)…you will burn while you work, sleep…hey, I’m burning calories as I write this…

So many people (women specifically) want to lose weight. Now what does this mean exactly? When you focus all of your efforts on getting that pesky scale to display a lower number, you are not really progressing toward the ultimate goal. We can all lose weight but what does that do for us in the long run?

Do you want to weigh less or take up less space?

Think about that for a second…You could weigh 140 pounds and have 40% body fat (that’s 56 pounds of fat!) or you could be 140 pounds and 20% body fat (28 pounds of fat)…which is a very healthy percentage for an active woman.

If you are only focused on what the scale says; you will probably not achieve the ultimate goal of gaining lean muscle and losing fat.  How would I take up less space if I weighed the same, you ask?

Muscle is an active tissue, as we mentioned, and it’s also a very dense tissue. Muscle is 1.1g per cubic centimeter, which fat tissue is 0.9g per cubic centimeter. That means you can pack a lot more muscle into a small space than you can fat!

Gaining muscle is often a scary thought for women. I know what you are all thinking…”I don’t want to look bulky and thick.”
Don’t worry…women do not possess enough growth hormone and testosterone to produce such an effect. Plus, when training for fat loss and lean muscle development (I hate the word “tone”, but that’s pretty much what it is), you are not going to be pumping out body building type workouts.

Here’s how you can efficiently and effectively develop the body of your dreams:

1. Use large movements such as squats, lunges, chin ups, push ups and step ups that will burn more calories and use more muscles
2. Train in circuit or complex formats that will boost your heart rate and help you train in less time
3. Lift heavy weights with perfect technique
4. Use shorter duration, higher intensity
5. Avoid machines, isolated movements, and long slow cardio

women can train at levels they probably don't believe.

If you are looking for a fun, efficient and effective workout…variations of strength training is the way to go. Your clothes will fit better, you will feel tight and lean, you will be burning fat at rest and you will have more confidence. Train hard!

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Ok, we all know – or do now – that all the workouts in the world will not burn the optimal amounts of calories / fat if a person does not follow sensible eating habits and has willpower to eat smart – particularly over the holidays.

Well to keep things very simple I’m showing here FIVE tips I recommend to clients to alter their eating habits and give themselves and their bodies’ a firm platform to transform their physiques an burn the most amount of fat to reveal the lean midsection or ripped abs and fit nicely into that little black dress for the holiday parties…

Simply put we need to create an ‘Energy Imbalance’ – basically burning off more caloreis than you consume.

Alongside the workouts I offer with clients and bootcamp attendees, these five tips will allow you to re-structure your eating over the holidays and beyond.  And help create that ‘energy imbalance’:

1) Use what I call the ‘Carb Slide Theory’ - simply put, consume your main amount of complex carbs from early morning (breakfast) onwards – dropping the amount until around 2-3pm you cut complex carbs all together (like pastas, heavy starches – potatoes etc  and rice) and replace from this time of day onwards with high fiber sources for your ‘carb needs’ like vegetables and fruit.  Still consume protein of course, but drop the carbs from 2pm onwards.

This will stop you feeling bloated and uncomfortable as well as allow you to begin feeling more consistently comfortable.

2) Portion Control – being from England I recall vividly moving to America and being blown away with how much food I couldget at a restaurant. The starter (appetizer) salad was as big as a main course salad back home.  Honestly I loved it at first but soon realized will power was going to be very important – especially as we get older and metabolism ineviatably slows down.  I typically use the analogy that a sensible portion is a fist sized amount of food.  Protein / Carbs (before 2pm) /Fibrous vegetables.

I don’t ever do desert.  But its the holidays so I’ll show you a little trick in a moment for that…

3) Eat More – Lose Weight. Ok, by this I mean the very important aspect of eating at least 5-6 times aday.  Gone will be the typical three meal standard and in its place will be a pattern of eating or grazing that will allow the three meals a day but with sensible portion control as well as implementing a grazing apprach.  i.e.

Breakfast AM

Mid morning snack (10am) yoghurt/nuts/veggie sticks etc etc

Lunch (noon)

Mid Afternoon snack (2pm) – fruit / raw vegetables

Dinner (5-6pm) (dropped the carbs totally now) portion control again!

PM snack (8-10pm) Yes its ok, but go with high protein snacks like almonds and lots of water…

This will allow a more controlled eating protocol that in turn will level out your metabolic system and not create yo-yo eating, will eliminate binge eating and keep you from feeling discomfort and bloated.

4)  People do not drink enough water – period. I see clients in the gym drinking water from the fountains and thats all good, but throughout the day we need to consume a lot more than we do.  Not only does copious amounts of water eliminate toxins in our body and keep our body temps normal, it als ocreates satiety – a feeling of being full.  Hence we do not binge.  I tell all clients to drink at least 8 of the 8 oz glasses a day, this is a typical recomendation.  Ideally it would be more and I do try for more.

But its one thing saying you’ll do it and another doing it!  Either way, your urine should be almost colorless and stats show you ideally will produce 1.5 liters of urine a day… DON’T MEASURE IT! but you get my jist…

Essentially you’ll know if your feeling dehydrated and should take the same approach with water that I discussed with your eating approach…often and frequent.  Have water with all meals.

Oh, it also helps burn fat! GULP GULP GULP….

5) The Biggy For The Holidays And Beyond! - CHEAT DAYS.  There is growing data supporting the theory of a cheat day for your diet.  Meaninng for one day eat what you want and how you want.  That is a very general summary but if you are following these other five then I recommend you allow every 5 days for your diet to slip, eat the pizza, the ice cream and all that good stuff.  You’ll kick your body into an elevated fat burning mode and once back on the sensible diet appraoch for the next four/five days you’ll burn a nice amount of fat as long as you are not doing cheat ‘weeks’ and are following my intense workouts and programs…

There will be more on this later.

for now I hope you got some good ideas.  These 5 tips will help you completely re-model your eating habits and allow those with sufficient willpower to structure their lifestyle easily so that along with regular correct exercise body fat will fall off.

Hooray!

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Ok.  There is obviously major hype right now about the ‘Twilight’ Movies.  Honestly, its not my thing.  BUT I know many family and friends who love it.  And importantly the look of a man who has added 30 pounds of muscle…no matter his age.

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For today’s post I thought we’d discuss how a 17 yr old gains around 30 pounds of lean muscle.  I smile as I started my lifting at the age of 17 – a few years ago now!

Obviously its fair to say that amounts of muscle gained will vary.  A guy in his 30′s and 40′s will gain differently to a younger guy like Taylor.  But the interesting thing to point out is the change in training stimulus that allowed – or assisted- in this impressive gain.

Typically us guys will preach all day long about the need for consistent resistance training – our ‘mantra’, with variables changed up like weight, reps, speed and volume.  Fair enough, it does not change.

But what is important to address here is the change of training ‘type’ incorporated to stimulate muscle growth.

In looking at the training regime Taylor Lautner did, and researching this discussion on the web, we can see a selection of specifics his trainer incorporated.

Obviously the first – Lift heavy weights. This is one we all know and use.  With progressive changes in variables.  To stimulate consistent response and growth.

Taylor Lautner Six Pack Abs - A nice side effect of correct training

How about this – Extended Time Under Tension. This is a great one.  We will all benefit from changes in our routine or workout that force us to not just stick to the typical speed of a rep, but increase our muscles’ time under tension from the usual 3 seconds exertion – 2 seconds eccentric etc – to a varied approach – try a session of less reps but TUT (time under tension) of 20-80 seconds.  Now that right there is challenging the muscles.  I recommend and use this approach once every couple of weeks.  Nice way to break up the workout variables.

Workout Change. Now this is a point I really take note on.  When I first started training I followed a workout program for 12 weeks (mail order special!) and saw great gains, but during times when I’ve got stuck (And I have) doing too much of the same stimulating training I can tell I’m not moving forward with muscle gain

I listen to my body and when I feel a need to change I do, but on a more consistent basis I change up the TYPE of workouts.

For example – after this is posted I’m off to do a full-on Intensity Circuit with a mix of body weight and resistance metabolic exercises in circuit fashion.  Honestly, I never used to consider this worthwhile when I was younger but in my first meetings with serious trainers in the gyms I trained at as a 17 year old I always recall the time I stepped away from the heavy weights and added a little workout spice to my program.  It absolutely affected my gains – In a major positive way.  My body and the bodies of my clients over the years have reacted superbly from complete workout change up – particularly the guys (and girls) wanting increased muscle.  So definitely do not neglect slamming your body through a HIIT or Metabolic resistance circuit to ‘shake things up’ – muscle growth will follow.

Stop that Bloody Cardio! – You know I ‘m not a fan of long form cardio.  I even have days where my HIIT pisses me off.  So here’s another option.  Grab a weight you can lift relatively easily – choose 3-6 ‘compound’ exercises (i.e. DB thrusters, Renegade Rows, DB lunges, DB Push Press etc) and perform 20 seconds of one – 15 seconds rest – 20 secs of the next… and so on.  DO 2-3 circuits of this with 2 mins rest between circuits.  That right there is your new cardio!  Nice.  No more long boring sessions.  You’ll hear me go on and on about this…

When all is said and done we can see that Taylor Lautner and his trainer did an amazing job.  Its not a bad thing to give credit where credit is due and 30 pounds gained is a great achievement.

I can tell all of you reading that these sort of gains are not exclusive to millionaire hollywood actors, they are a reality for anyone who wants them.

Taylor Lautner - more mass - 30 Pounds of Muscle to be precise! - credit to ya!

Simply:

Change up your workout!  Yeah – really!

Change up your variables – set count, rep count, time under tension TUT, grip position, compound and isolation…etc

Add new and challenging circuit  sessions

Stop long form cardio

Eat more protein than you are currently and add a protein supplement also!

Use creatine (no loading phases please!)

Rest more than usual

Take a week off every 8 weeks

There’s more but these fundamentals will have you breaking plateaus and transforming your gains like a Taylor Lautner’.  But only even bigger!

*Changing up your workouts is now going to be the consistent variable of your fitness and muscle gaining future.  This factor will NOT change, stagnation is over for you and your routines.

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This is a topic I am passionate about.  I have trained many people over the years and the basic principle I use in every session we embark upon when serious fat loss is the major goal is exercises that are structured around short burst exertion.

What do I mean by this?  Well it is simple.

I use forms of exercises that mimic reality.

In our everyday lives we typically are forced to randomize our pace/speed/intensity/rest/exertion and many other logistics.

We don’t spend 30 minutes doing something at full speed then immediately go to sleep etc, no our bodies are constantly in a state of adaption.  We are constantly in periods of short bursts of energy, short rest periods.  We sit – stand – pause for a coffee – head to the store – sit and read and so on…

The reality is that our lives are active (most of the time) and fluctuate between bursts of expelled energy and a rest period.

I structure my clients workouts and our systems around this approach because not only does it benefit us most in daily life because it mimics our real world physical events but it is also proven to be the most productive form of fitness training we can do – if of course our intensity is maxed out during the workouts.

For example, consider the level of fitness needed to play soccer, rugby, football, tennis or any other activity that requires stop-start fitness ability.  It’s immense!

Short burst training incorporate this mentality, again an example is weight training.  Any resistance exercise is performed as a short time exertion (lifting etc) followed by a brief rest and then repeated.  (and I might add that resistance training is the number one way for women to burn stomach fat and tone up – results are phenomenal – don’t ever think if you are female that resistance training will bulk you up and make you end up muscular and ‘manly’ – that is an old and outdated concept and I cover it specifically in another post)

But weight training is not the only exercises philosophy a person training correctly should use, another one that incorporates the ‘stop-go’ effect is High Intensity Interval Training.

I also use HIIT for all my clients because simply put it will burn triple the amounts of fat and can be done in half the time of a typical long duration cardio session.

Again results are incredible and when you train with both resistance training and HIIT you achieve what a lot of people think is not possible and that is rapid fat loss and the type of body they always wanted in a relatively short amount of time.  (of course the extra ingredient of all this is sensible eating and a structured diet – more on that in other posts)

So the successful workout concepts fall into three categories for this discussion.  They are HIIT, Resistance Training & Short Burst Exertion Training. (SBET)

We discussed that SBET is a form of HIIT.  It is also a workout structure that can be performed alone with both body weight and resistance training exercises.  By using specific exercises and changing the timing protocols and focusing on explosive workout structure a training session can be devised that is more SBET than pure HIIT.  Both are great, SBET is just a modified version of the best form of cardio you can do: HIIT.

Either way, if you incorporate these three workout fundamentals into your program you’ll lose fat.  Period.

Short Burst Exertion Training works in unision with HIIT & Resistance Training for real fat loss results!

If you are putting in the time you should really be getting real results from that effort.  And using proven protocols and randomizing your training will yield the successes you crave.

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3 piece jigsaw to six pack abs

A lot of clients I train assume that when we begin structuring our fitness programs that they’ll simply be doing some crunches or sit-ups as their abdominal workout.

That is not the case and in our workouts that could not be further from reality.

What I have all my clients do is a workout for abs & their core that incorporate a three sided approach – or what would be deemed a three piece jigsaw.  They will work lower abs, upper abs and their obliques(sides).  There is no other way to create the complete package and get structured results.  And the order of these three training targets is typically set at doing lower abs, then uppers with obliques added in between or at the end.  (this is another topic I’ll discuss in another post)

You see, sit ups and crunches only work the upper abs (I don’t really think you need to be doing sit-ups ever by the way) but for the complete package you need to work your lower abdominals to create that tight and strong waist as well as train your oblique muscles to enhance torsional flexibility and strength and see the rippled muscles in this area of the midsection.  The uppers are only a third of the  equation.

When you see the models and fitness pros with great midsections that is not from doing solely crunches.  It is because of a complete abdominal 3 sided training approach.

I’ll stress here that I also include a lot of core conditioning and lower back structuring in my programs designed for getting six pack abs and burning belly fat, but in terms of the main exercises concerning the abdominal muscles the three sided approach is always what I  use.

Here is a short list of some of the typical exercises that I use and rotate during ab specific workouts are:

Side open leg oblique crunches

Split frogs

Straight leg alt toe touches

Sky pointers

Leg alternate splits

Swiss ball crunches

Swiss ball roll ins

In & outs

Again, this is just a small selection of what I use with clients in our sessions.

If you train your abdominals correctly and don’t waste time with tired old sit-ups and keep the balance correct between the three sided approach to abs training then results are almost guaranteed if you are on top of your diet and incorporating the movements that will burn the most body fat.

I’ll also mention that this 3 piece jigsaw to abdominal training can also be incorporated during the ‘full body workouts’ that are essential and well advised for real success in getting six pack abs.  I’ll cover that in a new post  so you understand not only why full body workouts with full body exercises / compound body weight exercise is essential but also a description of exercises I like and a few workouts you can try.

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When I first got into fitness at 17 years old, my passion was body building.  Plain and simple.  I had previously been heavily into football (soccer) and other team sports requiring intense cardio capabilities.  But as my interest in bodybuilding exploded I immediately wanted to know why some guys built muscle and a lot didn’t.  I was 17 years old and open to learning from anyone…

Obviously we know genetics play there role, but this is not about genetics.  This is about changing up your training to illicit maximum response from your muscles.  Again, we know a change is needed- we all change reps, sets, weights etc etc.

However the change I’m talking about is one that is becoming ever more common and popular amongst the people training for new muscle and impressive physical appearance.

That change and the weapon to insert into your routine is ‘protocol change-up’.

I’ve been lucky enough to train alongside some of the smartest bodybuilders and muscle trainees in many different countries and the one thing 99% (the other 1% relied on ‘the juice’:) of them explained was their desire to completely take time off of serious heavy weights and insert high intensity circuit and body weight routines into their schedules – THEN they come back to the weights.

This is not something especially new but it does suprise me just how many people stay stuck in the same routine and mindlessly continue down one path of training.

Now there’s a time and a place for this change up, but the important thing is to do it!

Some of the biggest guys I know routinely throw in sessions of tabata training, M.I.T. Workouts, cross-fit and other full body ass-kick training.  The benefit of total body muscular stimulation as well as challenging your kinetic chain with diverse training is of such high benefit to stimulating new muscle growth its surprising more people don’t do it.

I’m going to go over a selection of other protocols that I’ve had clients and friends inserting into their regimes to stimulate stubborn muscle fibers and blast through plateaus in coming posts.  But to briefly conclude it seems that most smart bodybuilders and those looking to fire up their muscle gaining potential know the benefits of hitting their body from numerous angles with diverse training to keep it guessing and increasing its demand for much needed muscle.

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