The Romano Factor
High Intensity Training (HIT) is perhaps the most efficient means of building muscle because it addresses a very basic adaptational function of human physiology. Several studies have demonstrated...
“You want to put an inch on your arms almost immediately?” future Mr. Olympia (he won the next year) Samir Bannout asked me in Gold’s Gym. Silly question, I thought. Surely it was rhetorical, so I...
The latest change in the hierarchy of women’s professional bodybuilding has seen the 28-year-old Ms. International title and the 34-year-old Ms. Olympia title retired. No more zeniths of women’s...
Several thousand bodybuilding fans from all over the world are making a trip to Las Vegas to be in town for the 50th anniversary of the Mr. Olympia competition. And by all accounts, they’re going...
Does this mean that I’m predicting Mamdouh “Big Ramy” Elssbiay will be Mr. Olympia? It does. I just can’t tell you when. If I could do that, I wouldn’t be doing this; I’d be at the track with a...
Almost every day I see someone doing something in the gym that I think looks really stupid. I’m sure everyone has experienced this. There are even websites dedicated to gym idiots where...
It was sometime back in the ‘80s when a dude named Calvin Hancock, fresh off a five-year stretch at Lompoc, eased his way up the steps off Main Street, into World Gym, past Joe Gold (who growled...
Drop sets are a principle in the advanced lifter’s arsenal of maximal muscle fibre recruitment tools. Although it may seem this concept would favor high intensity training (HIT), and it does, the...
If we're talking about the women, then you can absolutely say yes. One subtle indication might be the fact there is no longer a Ms. Olympia contest; proof, a jacked girl might reckon, that she'd...
