http://weighttrainingtipsandarticles.com/blog1 Your Guide For Weight Training Success Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:20:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   One of the more unique weight training routines is the Heavy Duty routine. It's an extremely low set, high intensity routine. 1970s bodybuilder Mike Mentzer created Heavy Duty with the belief that most bodybuilders of the time were training way too much - some were doing 3 or 4 ... http://weighttrainingtipsandarticles.com/blog1/heavy-duty-weight-training/   The upper back contains many muscles and if you put them together it makes it the largest muscle group of the body. For many weight trainers it's a pain to train the upper back since you can't see the muscles working and all of the exercises for it involv pulling ... http://weighttrainingtipsandarticles.com/blog1/building-upper-back-thickness/   Any serious weight trainer needs to perform lower back workouts regularly to avoid injuries and lift more on weight training exercises for other muscles. A weak lower back will negatively affect you on many major exercises, deadlifts and squats in particular. If you don't have a strong lower back ... http://weighttrainingtipsandarticles.com/blog1/lower-back-workouts/   If you're trying to build a muscular physique through weight training it's very important to create a wider appearance in your upper body. Doing this will give you a classic Herculean look and create an illusion of a smaller waist even if you haven't actually decreased the size of ... http://weighttrainingtipsandarticles.com/blog1/building-upper-back-width/   Abdominal workouts are great for strengthening your core and giving you washboard abs if you don't have a layer of body fat covering them up. Chunches are an especially great exercise for building the abs. However, many weight trainers and workout enthusiests do their crunches on flat benches or ... http://weighttrainingtipsandarticles.com/blog1/do-abdominal-exercises-on-a-core-ball/   If you're trying to build bigger arms through weight training you obviously need to do biceps and triceps workouts. However, there is a small muscle called the brachialis that lies between the bis and tris that you also need to train for optimal arm muscle size. Targeting the brachialis ... http://weighttrainingtipsandarticles.com/blog1/target-the-brachialis-muscle-for-thicker-arms/   One of the toughest muscle groups to build through weight training are the calves. How big your calves are depends a lot on genetics as you've no doubt seen people who never exercise with huge calves and people who exercise constantly with small ones. Take an elite athlete like ... http://weighttrainingtipsandarticles.com/blog1/weight-training-for-bigger-calves/   Building wider shoulders is very important to anybody who's into weight training or bodybuilding. Added shoulder width will help create a Herculean physique to give your body a look of strength and power. It will also give the illusion of a smaller waist, even if you don't decrease the ... http://weighttrainingtipsandarticles.com/blog1/building-more-shoulder-width/   If you've been weight training for a while, it's inevitible that at some point you'll hit a wall in your muscle size and strength gains. Your workouts may also become boring and not give you the same pumped up feeling you used to get. Whether you've hit a plateau, ... http://weighttrainingtipsandarticles.com/blog1/the-10-sets-of-10-weight-training-workout/   The squat is quite possibly the most important weight training exercise you can do to build overall muscle strength and size throughout your body. While squats are considered by many to be a great exercise for the quadriceps and hamstrings, they'll also help you gain mucscle just about everywhere ... http://weighttrainingtipsandarticles.com/blog1/proper-squat-form/