Get Fired Up Before Your Workouts!
Weight training and building muscle is all about intensity. Unlike other disciplines that require hours of training in order to progress, weight training requires increased intensity and short training sessions. There are many ways you can increase the intensity of…
Bicep Workout That Will Shock Your Guns!
Everyone wants bigger biceps, no matter how big they are you could always go an extra inch or two right? Here’s some bicep shocking techniques. Pretty much all the posts here on RealWeightTraining stem from my experiences and conversations with…
Variations of the Squat!
The squat is the undisputed king of all muscle building exercises! The almighty squat works an incredible 256 muscles in every rep! If you’re not squatting, you really should be. Personally I have seen incredible gains in the 2.5 years…
Best Tasting Protein Bars?
I’ve always liked eating protein bars. I always have a few laying around the house, I keep some at work and I take them when I do other outdoor sports like hiking and mountain bike riding. I’ve tried a few…
If I Had To Pick 1 Weight Training Exercise
If I had to pick one weight training exercise per muscle group, what would I pick? Good question. This was asked to me the other day when I was talking to the guy that owns the gym I train in.…
5 Common Mistakes Made By New Lifters
When I first started training I was clueless. I didn’t know anyone that worked out, I didn’t have the cash for personal training sessions and the only information I had access to was in bodybuilding magazines. Now days new lifters…
CytoSport Fast Twitch Review – The Zero Caffeine Solution!
Alright guys n girls, it’s time to review CytoSport Fast Twitch Caffeine Free! I have been itching to try this stuff since I stopped taking Gaspari’s SuperPump 250 because of the caffeine it contained. Like a lot of people, I…
How To Improve Your Grip Strength
This is going to be the first entry in my “how to” series. I will be writing many how to guides in the future, hopefully answering a lot of the questions that the reader of this blog have. Today I’m…
What is Hypertrophy?
You’ve probably heard the term on bodybuilding sites and magazines, but what exactly does hypertrophy mean? Muscle hypertrophy is a scientific term for the growth and increase of the size of muscle cells. Hypertrophy is what we train for, to…
Pre Exhaust Training – Beat Plateaus and Bring Up Lagging Body Parts
Today I’m going to talk about beating plateaus and bringing up lagging body parts using pre exhaust training. Lagging body parts, we’ve all got them. Plateaus, we’ve all experienced them. Both these situations require that your training be that bit…
