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Is It OK To Dry Scoop Your 5% Pre-Workout?

A great pre-workout should give you energy, cognitive enhancement, pumps, endurance, and performance. 5% pre-workouts do all of that, and they come in amazing flavors. So why do people dry scoop it...

Zottman Curls - A Rich Piana Old School Favorite!

If anybody liked to use unusual exercises once in a while, it was Rich Piana. That was especially true for his arm training. After all, he popularized the 8-hour Arm Day, preferred concentration cu...

Squats - Rich Loved 'Em!

Squats are an exercise that you either love or hate. For some, there’s nothing quite like squatting with a heavy barbell across your back. For others, the pain of working your legs hard is just too...

Cardio Before or After I Lift?

Should I Do Cardio Before Or After I Lift? That’s a very common question. The approach you take is important because it can have a major impact on your workouts. There are no carved-in-stone rules,...

8 Tips for Improved Mass Building

Do you want more muscle mass? Unless you’re specifically focusing on fat loss, who doesn’t?! The truth is: there’s no shortcut for putting in the hard work. Here are some concepts that apply for ma...

Rich Piana Training Favorite: Low-Cable Rows

We’ve talked about the incline press and side laterals, and now you can add low cable rows to Rich’s favorite exercises list. Whether he trained using one or two arms, he preferred a V-handle cable...

Are There Nutrition & Supplement Windows?

We’ve all heard about the post-workout “anabolic window.” No doubt you’ve heard about other windows of opportunity for bodybuilders and training. But are supplement and nutrition windows a real thi...

6-Week Training Program For The New Year - Body Fat & Sugar

In Part 1, we covered Phase 1 of the training program. We also covered nutrition and supplement guidelines. One of the things we looked at was sugar. That’s because most of us went a little (or a l...