by darinstarr | Sep 22, 2017 | Beginning Bodybuilding, Bodybuilding
To be clear, bodybuilding is tough even on the easiest days. There’s so much going on – meal prep, eating everything, hitting cardio, and attacking your workouts with an appropriate intensity so that your body get a clear signal of what you’re...
by darinstarr | Jan 12, 2017 | Beginning Bodybuilding, Bodybuilding, Bodybuilding Workouts
There are a billion (precisely…I counted) articles online talking about the best way to train legs, why you NEED to train them twice a week, why training them more than once a week is a bad idea, or why you should only squat and forget everything else. This is...
by darinstarr | Dec 7, 2016 | Beginning Bodybuilding, Bodybuilding, Bodybuilding Workouts
Guys tend to train chest a LOT. I see plenty of dudes in the gym who hit chest every day and yet it looks severely under-trained. Why? As with everything, the devil is in the details. Just doing the work is NEVER enough. How the work is executed is everything. So...
by darinstarr | Nov 17, 2016 | Beginning Bodybuilding, Bodybuilding, Contest Prep
How much someone struggles with sticking to a meal plan long-term is directly related to how bland they insist on making their meals and how crappily their food is prepared. Utilizing a handful of products and techniques can turn following a plan from a chore to...
by darinstarr | Sep 5, 2016 | Beginning Bodybuilding, Bodybuilding
Updated October 3, 2024 Everyone with a coach has a love/hate relationship with progress pics. They can be a great reminder of how far you’ve come, forcing you to see yourself as the camera captures you. They can also be a pain in the ass and a frustrating...
by darinstarr | Apr 11, 2016 | Bodybuilding
I get asked a lot of questions in a typical week. Heck, a typical day. Hour. Whatever – I get a lot of questions and one of the cool parts of having this job is getting to interact with people who care about your answer and genuinely want to know. Not the...