Ed Shanks80% of your body weight is above your waist. What does it mean? That your legs must be stronger than your upper body to be able to handle the weight of the rest of your body. Ok, so cool, but what does that have to do with training your legs for more size and strength? Everything!

Ed ShanksHopefully you have been keeping up with the recent training series. If not, here is a quick refresher. We have been discussing the benefits of neuromuscular training and how it can quickly help to improve your strength and size gains. Let me break it down for you even deeper. How deep, “so deep, I put her ass

Ed ShanksIf you have been training for any period, you have probably come to a point where your gains have started to slow down or have completely stopped. What do you do? Do you ditch your current training program and pick a new workout from some professional bodybuilder that is big because of his current drug protocol and

Ed ShanksWhen it comes to packing on the most muscle possible it is hard to beat compound movements. One of the reasons why they are so effective at building size and strength is that compound movements work both sides of your body at the same time. Working both halves of your body at the same time is referred

We've all said that so-and-so looks good "for their age." It's honestly a pretty crappy thing to say, especially when most people look like crap at any age. Even taking that into account, it's rare that we see people remaining jacked as hell into their twilight years. And I don't mean sparkly, homoerotic vegan vampires- I mean

A cursory glance around the internet seems to have people falling into three camps about milk: Milk is the debbil and should be avoided at all costs. Pasteurized and homogenized milk is the debbil and raw milk is the savior of which ancient texts

In the first part of this bit of wild-eyed polemic, I explained that the evidence-based coaches in the strength training community are, almost to a person, liars who resemble in many ways the idiots and psychotics who espouse the Flat Earth theory. The issue, however, goes deeper than conspiracies, however. The theoreticians behind the studies utilized by evidence-based training

In the first part of this bit of wild-eyed polemic, I explained that the evidence-based coaches in the strength training community are, almost to a person, liars who resemble in many ways the idiots and psychotics who espouse the Flat Earth theory. The issue, however, goes deeper than conspiracies, however. The theoreticians behind the studies utilized by evidence-based training

Ed ShanksYou train four to five times a week, you have the perfect training split, your diet is on point, but you can’t seem to get your chest to grow. All your other muscles appear to be growing, but for some reason your chest isn’t responding. You’ve tried working it from multiple angles and perform multiple drop sets