People always tell would-be bodybuilders that they need to eat more or have a good diet to build muscle. That’s true, but what they don’t usually tell you is what to eat to gain muscle, and how much of each nutrient.

For a healthy balanced diet for anybody, a mixture of protein, carbohydrates, and dietary fats [...]

I see a lot of people on the Internet telling others that they absolutely must train to failure in order to build muscle. This is false. It is absolutely possible to build muscle without pushing yourself to muscular failure.

Sometimes, constantly training to muscular failure can put the central nervous system into shock and stall muscle [...]

As a man it is no fun having a pencil-neck. It makes one look weak, and if the rest of the body is well muscled, it looks a little silly to say the least. Plus, having a stronger neck is never a bad thing as it helps prevent injury to this delicate area of the [...]

A massive mistake many beginners make is following a bodybuilding diet plan aimed at rapid weight gain. Nine times out of ten, way more fat is gained than muscle which leaves the trainee the long drawn out task of losing it – whilst gradually losing the hard earned muscle mass.
What a waste of time, effort, [...]

If you are asking yourself the question “how much protein do I need to build muscle?”, you asked a very important question indeed. Muscle is made up of around 20% protein, and although it is perfectly possible to build muscle mass without taking in huge amounts of protein, you can certainly build muscle mass much [...]

In bodybuilding a lot of people like to compare one exercise against another. Lunges versus leg curls, triceps kickbacks versus extensions, etc. One of the most common comparisons I have come across is that of hack squats versus regular squats, and people wanting to know which is the best.
My answer is always the same: There [...]

Shoulders are easy to build up providing you know which are the best shoulder exercises to hit each deltoid head making up the shoulder muscles.
Deltoid heads?

Shoulders are made up of a muscle group known as the deltoids, which in turn are made up of 3 heads, which provide the all-round ball joint movement of the [...]

Everybody wants big biceps, which can sometimes mean the triceps are often neglected and underdeveloped. Various triceps extension exercises are undoubtedly the best way to build up the triceps, and possibly the best triceps extension exercise of them all are French curls.

French curls are very similar to skull crushers, but for these fundamental differences:

They [...]

A common mistake newbie bodybuilders make is they train far too often, not even realizing they need to rest to grow - or at the very least, they underestimate how long it takes their muscles to recover.
It’s known that muscles in the steroid free trainee take around 72 hours to recover.

With this in mind it’s [...]

I’ll be honest, losing stomach fat will take time, but it’s simple. The body naturally prefers to store fat on the stomach, hips and butt, because this is the most convenient stress-free place (and energy conserving) for the body to do it.
Not only is the stomach the first place the body stores fat, but, it’s [...]