How did you get started with bodybuilding? My father was big into fitness his entire life. He spent countless hours running, training, and playing sports. As I grew older it was the only thing I knew: Hustle everywhere, try hard! My first experience was baseball; I played for eleven years. I also found myself involved […]
How did you get started with bodybuilding? I got started with bodybuilding after being on bed rest for over 6 months for a double surgery I had to have. I tore my ACL, meniscus, cartilage and fractured my shin bone during the second football game of my senior year. I then came back and tried to play with all of those injuries and the last game […]
How did you get started with bodybuilding? It started when I was 15 and took my first job at a local fitness facility. I fell in love with weight training and the rest is history! How do you stay so motivated? What drives you? I am motivated by my clients and my family. I think it is very important to be your very best and do your very best […]
How did you get started with bodybuilding? I never planned to be where I am now. I never planned to ever step foot on a stage. I just wanted to be healthy and not overweight, unhealthy and miserable. I ended up falling in love with the gym…the lifestyle and here I am. Wanting more and more! And now I am taking my body past limits I never thought […]
When I was a teenager just getting started in bodybuilding, I used to marvel at the biceps of Larry Scott. They were the best I’d ever seen, and to me they still rank as the best ever. Scott’s biceps heads were incredibly long, reaching past his elbows, and they were very thick and full, too. In studying my own biceps early on, I realized that Scott would be a good role model for me because I also had long muscle bellies. […]
Ask 100 bodybuilders which exercise they’d do if they could only do one, and 99 would tell you the squat—and the other one probably has chronic knee issues. There’s little doubt that the squat is the king of all exercises, because it adds mass to your thighs and glutes, as well as all over your body via a systemic response to this most difficult of exercises. […]
Check out how chains intensify Branch Warren’s chest workouts. Chains in chest workouts aren’t just for bench-press lockouts. Branch Warren popularized another purpose: weighting down his dips. The Texan had long been known for barbarically hardcore workouts, but once photos of him dipping with three giant chains swallowing his head hit the bodybuilding world, his […]
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