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Can You Build Muscle and Still Drink Alcohol?
You enjoy a drink.You also want to build muscle, get stronger, and look better.
At some point, those two goals start to feel like they’re pulling in opposite directions.
So the real question is:
Can you drink alcohol and still make serious progress in the gym?
The honest answer is yes—but with a clear caveat:
Alcohol doesn’t stop progress. It slows it down, interferes with it, and makes consistency harder.
Understanding how it does that is what allows you to stay in control.
FYI: If you haven’t read my article ‘Will alcohol stop me losing weight?’ take a look here … Read more

How to stop yourself falling forward when you squat

Why you fall forward when you squat

10 tips if arms won’t grow

Want Bigger Arms? Read This First
Let’s be honest… who doesn’t want bigger arms?
If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve already tried adding more sets, more exercises, or constantly changing programmes in the hope of forcing growth. Yet despite training hard and eating well, your arms still refuse to grow the way you want them to.
If that sounds familiar, this is for you.

Stop Training Back With Biceps And Chest With Triceps
Muscle growth is heavily influenced by mechanical tension. Simply put, the more load you can lift with strong technique while maintaining tension on the target muscle, the greater the stimulus for … Read more

Perfect Preacher Curls

Intelligent back building

How to warm up properly

How to Warm Up Properly Before Weight Training
Going straight from the changing room to your first heavy set without warming up properly is a good way to make your workout harder than it needs to be — and potentially increase your risk of injury.
If you’re serious about getting stronger, building muscle and improving your physique, your warm-up shouldn’t just be something you do because you think you should.
It should prepare you for the work you’re about to do.
A good warm-up increases body temperature, gets blood moving, takes your joints and muscles through the ranges you’ll be using and, importantly, prepares … Read more

My free weight challenge to you

So you think you’re training pretty hard, your diet is on point and you are utilising supplements that you know will help improve your physique but you’re stuck. Sometimes you need to introduce new methods in order to break through a plateau or even better, avoid one. There are hundreds of training techniques you can utilise in order to more effectively target and overload your muscle fibres leading to increased strength and hypertrophy (size) and some of them are so basic that they have been forgotten for more ‘fancy techniques’.
Free weights
Some people avoid free weights all together but most people … Read more

VIDEO: Should you use lifting straps