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Muscle & Strength Interviews Of Joe Daniels

Muscle & Strength Interviews Of Joe Daniels

What do you love most about bodybuilding and kettlebell? What I love most about bodybuilding and kettlebell (girevoy) sport lifting is that I can rely on no one but myself to get it done. It is a mental challenge almost more than a physical one and it helps you to organize your life to maintain [...]


Interviews Of Absolutely Amazing Akiva Stopford

Interviews Of Absolutely Amazing Akiva Stopford

What is your fitness background? In elementary school my stepbrother and I were very into playing basketball. My stepbrother, stepfather and I would play pick up games on Monday nights at our school gym, which we’d rent out. It was an amazing experience and I’ll forever remember it fondly. The majority of the players were [...]


Beast Derek Charlebois Talks

Beast Derek Charlebois Talks

What is your athletic background, and how did you get involved with bodybuilding? I originally became interested in bodybuilding at the age of 15 after watching Rocky IV. Stallone’s muscular and ripped physique along with the hardcore training montage made me say “I want to look and train like that!” At that point I began [...]


Grace De La Rosa Fitness Model And Bikini Competitor

Grace De La Rosa Fitness Model And Bikini Competitor

I love how I feel productive after every workout. The only thing I do not like is the post-competition blues. It’s hard to get back into the swing of everyday life without the regimented pre-contest training and dieting schedule. And getting back to a “normal” weight is depressing, knowing how good I can look. Is [...]


Talks With Fitness Model Bry Jensen Muscle & Strength

Talks With Fitness Model Bry Jensen Muscle & Strength

What is your athletic background, and how did you get involved with weight training, and what do you love most and least about it? As a child, I was very athletic. I grew up in all sorts of sports, from gymnastic, figure skating and dance, to martial arts, where I obtained my black belt. However, [...]


Teen Bodybuilder Matthijs Klein Talks

Teen Bodybuilder Matthijs Klein Talks

There was a trainer in the gym (a Dutch bodybuilding champion). His name is Sietze Lebbing. The first time that I saw him I didn’t like his body. He was too big, all those muscles were too much for me. But every time I entered the gym I saw Sietze training and I was so [...]


Talks Diced Physique Freak Khino Brackeen

Talks Diced Physique Freak Khino Brackeen

What is your athletic background, and how did you get involved with weight training and physique? I started curling dumbbells at 12, I began picking numbers in the 100′s, 200′s up to 400 with a little 12 pounder. From then it was another sport for me to do. I’ve always had an athletic look, just [...]


Weights Lifting

Weights Lifting

Weight training is a common type of strength training for developing the strength and size of skeletal muscles. It uses the weight force of gravity (in the form of weighted bars, dumbbells or weight stacks) to oppose the force generated by muscle through concentric or eccentric contraction. Weight training uses a variety of specialized equipment [...]


Killer Shoulder Exercises

Killer Shoulder Exercises

STANDING LATERAL RAISES This exercise is one of the best for developing the rear and outside deltoid muscles. Hold a dumbbell in each hand and bend forward slightly, dangling the weights below your chest. Lift the dumbbells out to your sides so they are slightly above parallel with the ground. Turn your wrists as your [...]


Biceps Training

Biceps Training

The right way to curl: Let the dumbbells hang at arm’s length straight down from your shoulders. Then, without moving your upper arms, bend your elbows and curl the dumbbells as close to your shoulders as you can. Pause, and slowly lower the weights back to the starting position. Each time you return to the [...]