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A. The use of balls and wobble boards has become very popular in the last few years. Training in an “unstable environment” is supposed to improve your balance and strengthen the “core” muscles.
A. Circuit training is a good way for beginners to train. But it’s not the best way to build a lot of muscle. The normal way to do circuits is to start off with an exercise for one area of your body (such as the chest press), then move to an exercise for another area (such as the leg press). Once you’ve gone through all the exercises, you start again at the beginning and go through the circuit two or three times.
Q. I’m doing the standing barbell curl, the seated dumbbell curl and the standing dumbbell curl, three sets of each, but my arms aren’t growing. What am I doing wrong?
Q. I’ve been lifting weights for a few years, and am very motivated to achieve a great body, but I don’t want (or have the time) to be massive.. I’m average height and don’t want to be bigger than 13 stone, but I want to be lean and perfectly proportioned. Should I train differently to someone who wants to be huge?
To sculpt shoulder muscles (deltoids) that look like cannonballs, most people use some kind of overhead pressing movement. But which is better for building great shoulders, the barbell or dumbbell shoulder press?
At the end of a set when you cannot complete another full range of motion (ROM) rep, doing partial reps will stress the muscles beyond the point of normal failure. Partial reps can also be done for entire sets. Consider the squat. If you squat only halfway to parallel, you’ll be able to lift significantly more than if you squat to parallel. Going heavier during this partial ROM allows you to overload the muscle with more weight. Used periodically, this can increase strength and muscle size.
Q: I hope you can put an end to a debate about squatting that I’ve been having with two buddies. One buddy says you should never go past parallel, while another says you have to go to the floor. Which one of my buddies is right?
Q. I heard one guy saying that all bodybuilders are switching their training to just 2-3 sets on each body part and going all out with maximum weight. I always train to failure but use 5-9 sets. What is your opinion on this?
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