Fakhri Mubarak shares his calf training secrets
March 2, 2010
Since he burst onto the scene by winning the light-heavy class at the 2005 USA, New Yorker Fakhri Mubarak has had two of the best calves in bodybuilding
. He’s only competed twice in the pros, but his lower legs get noticed on any stage. He last flexed them on his way to a sixth place finish in the 202 division of the 2009 New York Pro. Mubarak shares with us the finer points of his calf expanding philosophy.
MUBARAK TALKS CALVES
• I train …

Do you know those guys who train only their biceps or chest? Or triceps and abs? These are those guys with huge arms and underdeveloped calves or quads. This is not good brothers. We as bodybuilders must be well developed everywhere. I mean each muscle and body part.
For sure the most important part is our mind. We need to be intelligent guys and not like those pumped stupid idiods who do not know how to say two words, who do not know what means to respect their parents, old people, …

Dexter Jackson on turning negatives into positives
He started competing as a bantamweight. He turned pro, unceremoniously, as a light-heavy a dozen years ago at the North America. He didn’t win a pro show for another four years, but Dexter Jackson has done a lot of winning since then. Of current pros only Jay Cutler has more pro victories, and it’s a close race (Jackson has 12, Cutler 14). Both Mr. Olympias own three Arnold Classic trophies, a tie Jackson hopes to break on March 6 in Columbus, Ohio. As he …

How to train when gym is full of people
By MusclesProd
How many times you went to the gym with a serious attitude to make your muscles “burn” but when you entered the gym you saw it is full? What was your first thought? To move your training routine to other day? To have a light training? No, that is not an attitude of a winner. Let’s change clothes and start warming up, meanwhile we will see how to get maximum out of your workout in this situation:
1.Turn the music louder. A …

DORIAN: TO HELL AND BACK
Dorian Yates shares the high-intensity secrets for back building
In our March 2008 issue we ranked Dorian Yates’ back as the second best of all-time behind Ronnie Coleman’s, but we hedged our bet with the assertion that a strong argument can be made for Yates as number one.
A six-time Mr. Olympia (1992-97), Britain’s “Dozer” was renown for his high-intensity training methods: low volume and maximum effort, pushing working sets to failure and beyond. He shares with us his ideas about back training and includes a typical routine …

Charles “Ray” Arde on why basics are best for biceps.
January 12, 2009
Born in the Philippines, Charles “Ray” Arde’s family moved to America before he was one. Growing up in Northern California, he segued from martial arts to bodybuilding and eventually won the light-heavy class at the 2005 NPC Nationals. In his rookie pro season in 2008, Arde was victorious at the Houston Pro 202 and placed eighth in the Olympia 202 Showdown. Throughout his career, biceps fullness has been a strength. As “Stingray” explains, the free-weight basics are the secret …

Lou Ferrigno’s tips for building bigger pecs
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Best known for his role as the titular character on TV’s The Incredible Hulk from 1977 to 1982, before and after that Lou Ferrigno was a professional bodybuilder. He placed second to someone named Schwarzenegger at the 1974 Mr. Olympia and, 20 years later, was runnerup again at the 1994 Masters Mr. Olympia. In his 20s as well as his 40s, Ferrigno, now 58, had two of the world’s best pecs. He shares his thoughts on the press-centric chest routine he used in the …

By Paul Becker, copyright © 2008 Paul Becker – While many people know the basics of Heavy Duty training, the advanced techniques are known by only a few. The advanced and super advanced techniques were fully researched and tested by Mike in the late 70’s, but following the infamous 1980 Mr.Olympia, Mike retired from competition. After that he worked as a personal trainer and concentrated on what works best for beginners and intermediates. And so Heavy Duty for advanced and super advanced trainees became all but lost, even though Mike …

After taking the overall (as a light-heavy) at the 2007 Emerald Cup, 5′5″ Nathan Detracy won the middleweight class of the 2008 USA Championships and then triumphed in the same class at the 2009 Nationals. He owns the gym Evolution Fitness in Bellevue, Washington. Detracy details the finer points of his quad training and provides a typical quad routine.
DETRACY’S QUAD POINTERS
* I alternate between doing one-leg lunges first (as in the routine seen here) or squats first (four sets of 15).
• Lunges are by far the best exercise for legs. …

Dr. Dena Westerfield prescribes how to safely pack on back mass
Florida native Dena Westerfield is a practicing chiropractor in St. Louis, Missouri. She placed fifth in the 2009 New York Pro. Westerfield lays out some rules for keeping your spine safely aligned while training lats, and she dishes up a routine that helped her grow one of the thickest backs in female bodybuilding.
A CHIROPRACTOR’S APPROACH TO BACK TRAINING
• Warmup thoroughly. I do two warmup sets of chins before my first set of pulldowns.
• Pyramid your sets. This allows you …