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Muscle Building Interview Part 2

By Jason Ferruggia
Question: You are known in the industry as the go-to coach if you are looking to gain strength and put on muscle size. Can you first just give a little background about how you came to your training philosophy?
Answer: I started out training in middle school and was taking the advice of a […]

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How to Build an Impressive Chest

By Jason Ferruggia
Question: I have heard that the bench press is a crappy chest exercise. Is this true? If it sucks, what’s better?
Answer: The bench press is a great exercise. If you bench properly, there will be minimal pectoral involvement, however. The triceps and front delts will do most of the work. This is individual […]

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The Top Ten Muscle Building Tips

By Jason Ferruggia
1. Lift weights for no more than three to four days per week. Doing so is not only unnecessary but can quickly lead to over-training, especially if you are doing other physical activities such as cardio or playing recreational sports on a regular basis.
2. Limit your workouts to 30-45 minutes and 15-20 total […]

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The Magic Number for Building Muscle

By Jason Ferruggia
When looking at most popular muscle building workouts you need to understand that most forms of training have just been passed down for decades from one generation to the next, without the inclusion of rational thought. Sometime in the 60’s sensible muscle building programs started becoming less and less prevalent with the rapidly […]

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Weight Training Exercises to Avoid if You Want to Build Muscle Fast

By Jason Ferruggia
When it comes to constructing the ultimate weight training program to build muscle, exercise selection is a very important component. You build muscle fastest with compound weight training exercises. Any bodybuilding program that focuses on machines and isolation weight training exercises is a complete waste of time.
Below are the worst weight training exercises […]

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Using the 5×5 System to Build Muscle

By Jason Ferruggia
The 5×5 system is one of the oldest muscle building programs in the book and has stuck around forever. 5×5 is good and 5×5 is bad; it just depends on the situation. There are a few ways that the 5×5 muscle building system is implemented.
The first way that people use the 5×5 system […]

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The Top Ten Weight Training Exercises for Building Muscle

By Jason Ferruggia
1) Deadlift - Not many weight training exercises work as many muscle groups and build muscle as fast as the deadlift. The neck, traps, upper, middle, and lower back, glutes, hamstrings, quads, biceps, forearms, and abs are all utilized in the deadlift. No other exercise is a better test of overall body power. […]

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Is a “Pump” Needed to Build Muscle?

By Jason Ferruggia
Who could ever forget that famous line from Pumping Iron where Arnold said that getting a good pump was better than sex?
We all laughed, although some of us harder than others, because deep down we agreed with what he said. But after all these years, the question still remains- is a good pump […]

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Muscle Building Interview Part 1

By Jason Ferruggia
Question: Jason, your transformation was pretty incredible going from 147lbs to 231lbs. How much trial and error did you think you went through training wise until you found what really worked?
Answer: Oh man, I can’t even begin to tell you. I tried so many different methods and systems it was unbelievable. I actually […]

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Muscle Building Nutrition

By Jason Ferruggia
It has been said that nutrition is responsible for 80% of your muscle building results. I think that is dramatically overstating it but nutrition is critically important to your muscle building efforts. Without proper nutrition you will never build the physique you desire. Below are a few easy to follow nutrition rules that […]

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