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Content• fast Le g Gr owth• By admin on April 15th, 2011• How to get bigger biceps• The leg pad hits him just across his Achilles tendons and he• A exes his feet. He curls and lowers the weight evenly and• smoothly for 16 repetitions, first bringing his heels in toward his buttocks, and then slowly extending back to the start. He hops off and Chris docs a similar warm-up. “I do

a lot of warmups, usually 1-2 sets for almost all my leg exercises,” says Mark. “My left knee bothers me sometimes, so I make sure it’s super warm before I go heavy.”• The guys do another warm-up set oflS with 90 pounds, and then the real work begins. With the stack set at 160, Mark gets into position. lie pulls up the machine arm in a

smooth arc, squeezing it at the top as his heels come almost to his buttocks before slowly lowering back to the start for a full count of three. He never pulls with his back, and his hips remain low and tight to the machine throughout the move. He gets I 0 reps with this weight and swaps places with Chris.

• “These next two sets I’m going to start off with pointed toes, then when I reach failure I’ll flex my feet again,” he says. “Since the gastrocnemius (calf) muscle and hamstring both attach across the back of the knee, when T point my toes T can feel when that tension is taken off the calves and put more directly on the hamstrings. Tt makes the exercise way more difficult.” Mark ups the weight to 180 pounds and assumes the position, again with his toes pointed. He gets four reps with ease, but by the sixth he’s struggling. Mark flexes his feet and powers through three more reps, finishingwith a clang as the weight plates slam together. They each do one more set of six using200 pounds before moving to free weights. SINGLES SCENE “I love to do a onc-1 imb variation of romaniandeadliftsafter lying leg curls,” Mark says as he reaches for a pair of 60-pound dwnbbells from the rack and brings them to an open space on the floor. “The curls pump the muscle, and then the dead lifts s tretch it out.” The guys each take one dumbbell and stand side by side. “One day I was messing around on the leg press and realized the weight I could do with my left leg was pathetic compared to my right!” he says.“My right was way stronger, so now I do a bunch of stuff unilaterally to balance things out, including romanian dead lifts.” Mark holds the dumbbell with his right hand in front of his right thigh, shifting his weight to the right leg and lifting his left toes off the floor. He rests his left arm on an incline bench for balance and squares his shoulders.

• Slowly, he folds forward, keepinghis back straight ttnd rais ing his left leg out his right leg in the mirror then suddenly contracts his quads, and four separate muscles pop into detailed relief. “I lost a lot of size in my legs when I was in the 202s,” he says, inspecting the development in his right leg versus his left. “T did extra cardio to make weight, and that Stepmiliterally ate up my legs and spit them out!” He returns to the machine and beats his quads into submission with two more working sets of seven reps using the stack. Legs quaking, he then vaults out of the machine and moves back to the free weight area. behind him to counterbalance the weight of his torso and dumbbell as they drop downward.

• ‘When his torso comes nearly parallel to the floor, Mark reverses the move and comes back to standing, squeezing his glutes at the top. He completes 12 reps on each leg as his warm up then he replaces the 60-pounder and trades up for the 70, doing yet another warm-up set of 12. He exchanges the 70 for an 85 and does one set of 10 in tandem with Chris, the pair dipping and rising like humanoid oil rigs. After a brief rest and an upgrade to the 95-poun der they complete two more working sets of eight and six, respectively using that weight. Now it’s time to turn their attention to quads.

• Eduar do building massive triceps• By admin on April 15th, 2011• As Eduardo drives by the field he smiles wistfully. Once, he was one of them- lanky, lithe and lean, playing center for club teams during most of his youth. But at 16 he

decided to forego his futbol physique in favor of size and strength when he turned to power lifting in high school. Then as many do, to bodybuilding afterward. As soon as he got a taste of the limelight onstage at 19, Eduardo was completely hooked. In 2007, at age 26, he turned pro and immediately honed in on the 202 division as his personal ground zero. “Although I was well known in Brazil, I was still unknown in the professional community, and I thought the 202s would give me better exposure,” says Eduardo, who now speaks very good English after a few years learning the language. He got his wish: In 2009 Eduardo won his debut 202 at the! Pittsburgh Pro, earned fourth at the New York Pro and fimished third at the Olympia. Jn 2010 he repeated this pattern, winning

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• the Europa Show of Champions in the spring before bagging another third in the 202 division at the 0. Wish granted, and then some. Eduardo now thinks it’s time for a change. “I find my shape is better when I weigh more than 202, and for me it’s very difficult to lose those last 10 pounds to make weight. I think I’m at my best when I weigh around 220, so in 2011 I’m looking to do the open class as a pro.” He pulls into the lot in front ofWorld Gym and parks, hauling up and out of the car, maneuvering his 5’6″, 235-pound offseason frame with surprising ease. Eduardo usually trains with his fiancee Carol, who teaches group classes at the gym. This winter, however, Eduardo is focused on gaining size – many of the open competitors out-bulk him by 40, 50 or even 60 pounds offseason, so he’s got some work to do. He heads into the gym, perhaps channeling his inner Shawn Ray or his mental Lee Priest as he prepares to do battle. Today is chest day, one of Eduardo’s favorites. He broke a few powerlifti ng records at his school back in the day, including a 210-kilogram (462-pound) bench press, and is fairly confident in his chest development. He starts his routine with incline dumbbell presses. The upper chest is a weak part for many bodybuildoers, and Eduardo wants to stay ahead of his competition by keeping his upper pees full and thick. He sets the boench to a low angle, lower than most guys, and says: “I fe.ellike the lower angle – about 30 degrees instead of 45 – allows me to recruit more muscle fibers in the chest and fewer in the shoulders.” He does a few warm-up sets ofl5 reps with the 27.5 kilograms. (Editor’s note: This is approximately 60 pounds. All weights are listed in pounds equivalent.) Then he trades up for the 90s. Eduardo lies back on the bench and flips the w·eights into place over his chest, arms perpendicular to the Aoor, wrists and elbows stacked, and the inner heads of the dumbbells touching above his sternum. Taking a big breath in, he slowly lowers the weights by bending his elbows, keeping his upper arms perpendicular to the floor and his palms facing forward. When his elbows come to a ’90-degree angle, he reverses the move and explosively procsses the weights back up to the start as he exhales. He comes to full-arm extension, but doesn’t lock out his elbows at the top. He does 11 more identical reps, stands up and trades the 90s for the lOOs. “Sometimes I use a barbell for my presses, both incline and fiat-bench, but mostly I use dumbbells;’ he exjplains. “I feel dumbbells give me better mobility and therefore more opportunity to grow because of the longer range of motion.” With that he lies back and completes 12 reps with the loos before trading up a final time to the lose. Eduardo does a third set of 11 and fourth set of 10 with the llOs, and then racks the weights. He re-adjusts the bench, making it flat, and takes a sip of water.

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• lean muscle vs muscle mass• By admin on April 15th, 2011• One of the most effective ways to build and define rock hard lean muscle is to totally blast and

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