Muscle & Fitness UK Edition Magazine - UK | February 2014

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The Ultimate Starter’s Guide by SEAN HYSON
Nobody likes being the new guy. We know, because we were in your shoes once: feeling like everyone’s watching you and taking note of how weak you are; not having a clue how to do an exercise but being even more embarrassed to ask for help; and wondering if the music is that bad in every gym. (FYI, it is.)

Giant Sets, Giant Gains by KEVIN LILLY
It’s easy to imagine Joe Weider as having been supremely satisfied when he came up with the name “Giant Set”. Joe was big on buzzwords, and giant was the perfect descriptor of a training technique that would help turn a skinny young man into a fully grown young man. Joe thought the concept of the giant set made perfect sense, too: overload a single muscle group with four or more exercises done consecutively to maximise blood flow to the area and spark new muscle gains. He documented the practice, making the giant set one of his Weider Principles, and he used the technique himself over and over, then advised bodybuilders on employing it. Significant size was added by all, and the giant set has been utilised by gym rats for at least the past 50 years.

Brains and Brawn by MATT TUTHILL
Autumn 2003: A Saturday afternoon near Cambridge, Massachusetts and David Otunga is on the street outside Olympia Sports, taking his new squat rack and weight bench out of the box, and carefully arranging the pieces to fit into his black 1999 Honda Accord two-door coupé...

Also in this issue
72 Giant Sets, Giant Gains
120 Straight-Up: Biceps
126 Winning Workouts
134 Get Fighter Fit
152 Flushing
160 Training Talk
82 This Is A Test (Story)
144 Muscle Nutrition
166 Performance Nutrition
170 Protein Powder Cookery
172 Nutrition Made Easy
50 Brains And Brawn
58 The Ultimate Starter’s Guide
92 Nathalia Melo’s Upper Body Blast
104 Gene Profiling
112 Stuntman Fitness
14 Welcome
16 Arnold’s Page
18 Edge
174 Dan Hardy Column
178 Building Muscle
180 Bikini Body
184 Kings Of Strength
188 UFC Conditioning
190 Under The Microscope
192 Hot Bod