MuscleMag #361
June, 2012

Features

• Reverse Pyramids: Lift Like an Egyptian

  Starting with a light weight for high reps and progressing to heavier weights for low reps is the standard pyramid training rep scheme. Now the training gods have told us we’ve had it all backward and can gain significantly more strength and size by reversing it.
  By Eric Velazquez, NSCA-CPT

• 8 Ways to Boost Your Anabolism

  Yes, you can speed up the process of muscle growth with these eight critical training and nutritional factors.
  By Steven Stiefel

• Do You Have a Love/Hate Relationship With Your Leg Workout?

  Hardcore leg training can be a brutal experience, made even tougher when there’s scant evidence they’re even growing. Here’s a strategy that you’ll soon learn to embrace to finally bring ’em up.
  By Jimmy Peña, MS, CSCS

• Your No-B.S. Back Beatdown

  Attack your muscles with IFBB pro Ahmad Ahmad’s old-school, high volume routine.
  By Lara McGlashan-Volz, MFA, CPT

• No Weights? No Problem With This Workout

  Onslow and the gym owner decide to take a mini vacation, but the hotel gym sucks big time. The gym owner comes to the rescue by devising the next best thing to a free-weights workout.
  By Robert Kennedy, Publisher

• Get Big On A Budget

  Follow these tips and tricks for bodybuilders and save $25, $50 (or more) each week on your grocery bill.
  By Robert A. Hamilton

• Sweet 16 — Plus One. Your Giant-Set Solution to Stubborn Arm Growth

  When 23-inch guns are out of the question, 17-inch rock-hard uppers are magic. Here’s a bi’s-poppin’, tri’s-bustin’ arm routine hardgainers can take to the bank and come away with uppers that stretch the tape at — at least — 17 inches.
  By Johnny Fitness

• 2012 Arnold Classic Report

  Branch Warren made it two in a row, coming back from a serious leg injury to win the 2012 Arnold Classic in Columbus, Ohio. The Texas Titan managed to beat out Germany’s Dennis Wolf to take home the $140,00 purse.
  By Garry Bartlett

• Sports Med: What's In Your Blood?

  Looking good on the outside may conceal valves that are gunked up on the inside. Here are 10 key markers bodybuilders should watch for when doing a blood test.
  By Guillermo Escalante, MBA, ATC, CSCS

• Old School Training

  Training chest with Mr. Universe and actor Lou Ferrigno.
  Illustrations by Eric Blais

Hardcore

• You WILL Add Plates to Your Bench In 10 Weeks! Failure Is Not An Option!

  Two of the world’s best raw bench pressers dish on what it takes to get 600 pounds off your chest and provide an easy-to-follow program that can help you add a plate to each side of the bar in less than three months.
  By Eric Velazquez, NSCA-CPT

• Real-Time Offseason Training with IFBB Pro Manual Romero

  Our exclusive, rep-for-rep look at this Venezuelan-born mass monster’s shoulders and triceps routine.
  By Eric Velazquez, NSCA-CPT