Prepping for Bikini Competition I’ve worked with quite a few bikini competitors. Every prep has its ups, downs, and curveballs, but one thing is always constant—the demands of the sport. This isn’t a bodybuilding show in the traditional sense. The name of the game isn’t to max out muscularity and

In some fitness circles, I’m known as the “anti-failure” guy (which is a gross mis-categorization but we will go with it for now). So I think it’s prudent that I start this section by making the case FOR failure training as well as (or better) than even the staunchest of

Frequency, unlike volume, is a rather simple concept to grasp—it is the number of times that the target muscle group will be directly trained in a single microcycle. Though volume (through weekly sets) and intensity (through average proximity to failure) are going to be the primary variables for inducing hypertrophy,