Training With A Shoulder Injury

For the last  six weeks or so I have been training with a shoulder injury.

The injury started as a slight nagging pain after training chest or shoulders, so I backed off on the weight and concentrated on getting my form perfect with slow reps and a light weight. Then we caught the armed bandit at our apartment  and I really put it out.

So since then what have I been doing to train around my shoulder injury? 

Weight Training Too Heavy

Day after day I see guys in the gym training too heavy, with weights they can barely lift. I'd be very surprised to see them complete even a single good rep with the weight they have chosen.

Yet they pump out set after set of swinging body movements that stressed the hips, back and shoulder tendons more than the muscle they are supposed to be exercising.

On some days you might see me doing the same.... why? 

Strength / Weight Training For Women

There are many Strength and Weight training for women programs available on the internet and most, if not all, I say are just junk made to try to sell something to women who are likely to know less about training and supplements than men are.

Now the reality for a strenght or weight training for women routine is that there will not be too much difference from a man's routine who is looking for the same end goals.... 

Free Bodybuilding Workout Routines

Bodybuilding workout routines - none of them are going to be particularly magic yet I see people scurrying and reading all over the internet searching for some sort of workout routine holy grail, and in the process using some absolutely hairball bodybuilding workout routines. 

After doing a quick search and read online of a few of the top search returns for the phrases "workout routine", "workout routines" and "bodybuilding workout" I was shocked to find some absolute garbage written as bodybuilding workout routines for beginners.

IF you were unfortunate enough to follow some of the bodybuilding workout routines suggested on other sites it would not take long and you would label yourself a hardgainer....

Arnold Schwarzenegger Looking Small

New Bodybuilding Photos

After months of not putting any bodybuilding photos up online I have now pulled my finger out and gotten a few new photos taken today.

First up I was hesitant to put up bodybuilding photos at this point as I have lost a lot of weight over the last 3.5 months due to travel and work commitments and then partying over Christmas and New Years followed by a very recent very low calorie cleansing diet...

The Truth Behind Half Reps

Gain Weight - 20kg In 3 Months

"How can I gain weight" - the eternal question for teenage boys, footballers and beginning bodybuilders. Also the question that took me from a skinny 70kg long distance runner to todays weight of over 140kg - more than doubling my lean body weight.

21 years ago I started to ask how do I gain weight in earnest, studying every bit of archaic knowledge, the current state of professional nutrition advice and every bit of hearsay we could get our ears around. In the end we decided to follow these following steps.

In 3 months I gained 20kg of weight, mostly muscle!

Big Book (Manual) Of Bodybuilding

The Big Book of Bodybuilding has been released!

The Big Book of Bodybuilding has been written by Conan Stevens and John Hill with 193 pages of original content written by us collaboratively and drawing upon our combined 42 years of gym, muscle gain, strength training and fat loss experience.

In that time John has put on 108 lbs of muscle (49 kg) and Conan has put on 181 lbs (82 kg) at their heaviest. That is some serious muscle gain.

We have the practical knowledge we have applied it to ourselves, we experimented, tested and measured the results from every training routine, and every diet idea we came across - surprisingly after 21 years each John and I both agree on the same methods to get big, and now we tell you...

Finding Time To Train

"I can't find time to train" the cry echoes out around us in our busy modern lives. So many people forego thier fitness commitments and allow themselves to become unfit and flabby, yet there are others around us who seem to find the time and get fitter and better looking all the time. 

What is the difference? Where do these people find the time? 

300lbs Down To 189lbs Email From A Reader

A reader of this site sent me a detailed email requesting help with loosing fat. Amazingly he has already come down from 300lbs to 189lbs. This alone shows me he is serious and that being the case I just had to reply to his email.

Congratulations and keep up the good work, you can achieve your goals just getting a little more knowledge will make it easier for you...

Benefits Of Bodybuilding / Weight Training

I was talking with a bodybuilding friend the other day about our lives and how bodybuilding changed the way our lives have gone and the paths we took.  It was rather an interesting reflection, without bodybuilding in my life I would probably be stuck in my hometown working some sort of office job with computers.

The benefits of bodybuilding have been great, for both of us, but today I am going to talk about the benefits that I have personally gained... 

7 Foot Muscleman Photos July 2007

The Biggest Muscle man returns - bigger than ever!

It has been a while since I posted any muscleman photos of myself in the gym, so in an effort to recitfy that and to satisfy requests from regular readers I took some photos of your favourite Muscle man - me - in the gym yesterday.

Originally I was not going to post these muscleman photos as the lighting is terrible but then, what the heck, I'll do some better photos later and put them up too

7 Foot Tall - Biggest Muscleman ?

Hardgainer Read This

Hardgainer is a term used in bodybuilding to describe people who have a hard time increasing their muscle mass.

Hardgainers make their muscle gains through a long slow process at times barely putting on any muscle, often for years hardgainers will almost stagnate no matter how hard they train or what they seem to do.

Here is how to cure your 'hardgainer genetics' and to pack muscle on explosively... 

The 300 Workout Program - What A Load Of Bollocks

I have just seen all over the internet forums and on blogs all excitement over the "300 workout program". It is supposed to be the fitness workout that got the guys 'in shape' for the Spartan war movie 300.

What a load of bollocks. 

Variously I have seen the 300 workout program  written as a 4 month training course or an 8 week training course. The exercises seem to vary too - hmmm.... Chinese whispers at work.

I have photographic proof that the 300 workout program is NOT responsible for King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) muscled physique. Also as a professional actor and stuntman and as a 20 year bodybuilder - I will fill you in on a few more details before you go believing the hype....