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You can increase the size of your biceps by 1″ in 6 weeks if you know how to train them. Here’s how to do it. To increase the size of any muscle you need 3 things; Mechanical Tension (Heavy weight, low reps) Metabolic Stress (Light weight, high reps) Muscle Damage (Drop-sets, Super-sets, rest pause sets, intra-set stretching) Now if you want to increase the size of your biceps by 1″ you have to over-train it. Most people would think that over-training is a bad thing but I’m here to tell you 99.9% of people will never truly reach a state of over-training. Most people under-train. So you increase the size of your biceps you need to train them 3 days a week for six weeks doing an overload phase. The rest of your muscle groups will only get “maintenance” work, meaning you’ll train the other muscle groups at a minimum because your focus is going to be on your arms. Think of training like digging a ditch for your recovery. You dig the ditch when you train (create fatig

I’ll preface this by stating what should be obvious, every girl is going to be different, there’s going to be a lot of cultural variance, and even differences within a country or area. But, if I had to wager an empirical opinion about American girls I’d argue they definitely aren’t interested in a body builder/“Mr. Universe” and would rather a sculpted athletic build. Honestly, I have no idea where the perception that girls friend this attractive comes from: And that was the most “normal looking” photo I could find. Poll ten ladies and I’d imagine you’d end up with 8/10 preferring: Or:

There’s this saying that goes, “heartbreak makes bodybuilders.” A lot of guys think that if they build muscle they’ll have all the girls in the world. Sorry bro, doesn’t work like that. The muscle women like the most is the one between your ears.  Your brain . What if I told you that women don’t REALLY care all that much about muscles? What if I told you that women like guys that  excite  them and make them feel  supported  and  secure ? Let’s use a hypothetical. You’ve got this guy, who’s a model, but all he does is eat broccoli and chicken and take selfies in the restroom. Basically, he’s as boring as horse shite. Then you’ve got this guy, who is driven, funny, intelligent, well-traveled, and knows how to  salsa dance . Sure, the first guy may get more looks, but after one conversation, women will be done with him. The second guy will win every time. Unless you know how to  pique and keep her interest , she won’t be looking at you for long. Whether a woman is a f

A long a** time.. It took me around 5 years. I started out when I was 16 and I'm 21 now. When I started training I had no idea what I was doing. Basically the first 3 years of my bodybuilding journey were highly ineffective due to my lack of knowledge about the sport and what it takes to really build up your physique.  I look back with a lot of regret because I thought I knew everything and just did what everyone else was doing. Wrong move. I failed have the humility to learn from the best in the game, which would have helped me to progress and gain a lot more muscle mass than I did in those early stages. I have no idea why I didn't put more time into learning about the ins and outs of bodybuilding...Maybe I was just so immature and unaware of the level of humility it takes to become good at something... (This is me after my cut at 6% bodyfat.) Now, a little over 5 years into the journey I feel like I've finally cracked the code of crafting an aesthetically pleasing ph

As Dom Mazzetti (aka the Brofessor) put it in one of his videos -  The day you started lifting is the day you became forever small... Because you will never be as big as you want to be .  Everyone that has been lifting for a while knows exactly what I mean - the constant dissatisfaction with the results and always chasing more gains. Let me start with the  before and after picture  (we need follow the established plot here). The guy on the left is my past-self (being 17) and the guy on the right is my present self (clarifying just in case). So I was a skinny kid, as you could probably tell. I started working out at the age of 16, because I was quite embarrassed to show up in beach shorts… something that I apparently overcame a year later, as result of some abs showing up. You know what’s funny? I though that I was muscular back then. Man, was I wrong. I’ve been seeing the same attitude with so many beginners. Almost all lifters think they’ve become buff after a few months of t

You should train like the beefed up guys you don’t want to look like. That may sound ridiculous, but hear me out. As a dude who has been lifting weights a minimum of 5 times per week for the last 5 years, I’ve heard and seen just about every kind of person at the gym now. Even guys who don’t want to be very muscular. There’s nothing wrong with ^that^ by the way. I even once had a friend say to me, “I just want to build some muscle, but I don’t want to be as muscular as you are,” which made me nearly cry with joy. That was the first time I got called big. I was so happy! I gave him a full plan based on my education in the field of fitness. And guess what? He looks exactly the same. You know why? Because his initial goal was extremely misguided. Saying “I don’t want to get too big” is like saying “I don’t want to play basketball too much because I might accidentally make it to the NBA.” Being good enough to make it to the NBA is a matter of years of hard work,

MEN’S SKIN CARE, A GEEK’S PERSPECTIVE. Men’s skin care is a growing topic amongst the  Quora  community. Guys want their skin to be healthy and look young. Ladies want their man’s skin to look young and be healthy. The post below talks about why guys should care about their skin and how they should go about the daunting process of finding the right skin care products for their unique needs. Enjoy! WHY SHOULD GUYS GIVE A FOX ABOUT THEIR SKIN? 1. Your Skin is Wonderfully Complex. Skin is the largest and fastest growing organ in the human body (sorry to burst your bubble guys, and ladies). Like your fingerprint, tour skin is unique to you and nobody else. Your skin regulates your body temperature while keeping aggressors (germs & bacteria) out and your insides ‘in’ – we’re talking heart, lungs, blood & muscles here. You even feel things through the nerves in your skin. Your skin is constantly changing in response to intrinsic (i.e. sebum production and ageing) and extri