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Written by Victor Martinez
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Thursday, 29 October 2009 |
 How many different
pressing movements should I do for chest in a workout? Some guys seem to only
do two, while others will do as many as four or five. What’s a good routine for
someone who has been training about four years and still needs a lot more mass
in the pecs?
If you want a lot more thickness to your chest, nothing is
going to beat barbell and dumbbell presses. As to how many you should do, it’s
a matter of personal preference. These days I like to do an incline barbell
press, a dumbbell press either on the flat or incline bench, and a machine
press, but that’s now how I trained for most of my career. I had a partial pec
tear two years ago while doing the flat barbell bench press, and it’s been out
of my routine ever since. But if I had to say there was one exercise that gave
me the most overall mass in my chest, that would be the one. Unless you have
some serious injury that prevents you from benching, you should do it first and
work hard on it for about 4 work sets of 8-12 reps (after warming up well, of
course).
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Written by Branch Warren
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009 |
 Squats— The Exercise We Love To Hate
I've started doing legs again
recently, but I'm not a big fan of squats. Will leg presses with heavy loads
still help me gain considerable mass? Thanks in advance!
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Written by Dan Gwartney, MD
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
 In
games and contests, there are always elements that are devastating in their
dominance. It may be as simple as rock always beating scissors in the hand game
“Rock, Paper, Scissors,” or it may be as complex as the M1A1/2 Abrams main
battle tanks loaded with depleted uranium penetrators in Operation Desert
Storm. In the battle against fat, the devastator is insulin.
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Written by Robbie Durand
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Monday, 26 October 2009 |
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 Gastric Bypass Improves Sexual Performance In Morbidly Obese
Men
Grossly
obese men have an increased risk of sexual dysfunction, including erection
problems and decreased sex drive. High levels of body fat trigger insulin
resistance, which interferes with Nitric Oxide (NO) production— an important
regulator of blood flow to the penis and the rest of the body. Ramzi Dailai,
from the Albert Einstein Health Network, found that sexual performance improved
following gastric bypass surgery in morbidly obese men (body mass index greater
than 51 kg/m2; 30 is overweight). The amount of weight lost
following surgery was highly predictive of improvements in sexual performance
capacity. Sexual performance returned to near normal values in men who lost 67
percent of excess weight. Poor metabolic health is the principal cause of
sexual problems in aging men, such as erectile dysfunction. Gastric bypass
surgery improves metabolic function and sexual performance. (Journal American College of Surgeons, 207:
859-864, 2008)
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Written by Hany Rambod
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Thursday, 22 October 2009 |
 One of your clients goes to my gym and I saw him training
legs the other day. I always pay attention to whatever he’s doing to see what I
can pick up and use for myself. I’ve seen him using the FST-7 system for a
while now and normally he does the “7” sets at the end of a body part. This
time, he did his 7s on leg extensions at the very beginning of the workout. I
think I recall you mentioning this variation on the FST-7 system before, but I don’t
understand the rationale for doing 7s in the beginning. What gives?
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Written by Steve Blechman
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009 |
 Don’t Do Endurance and Strength Workouts in Close Proximity
A
basic rule of conditioning for sports is to train the body the way you want it
to adapt. Bodybuilders don’t run 80 miles per week, because it causes
undesirable adaptations that don’t match the requirements of the sport. The
principle of specificity is nothing new to any knowledgeable bodybuilder, but
the underlying physiology has been a mystery.
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