Workout success lagging? Here are 11 sure-fire training & nutrition tricks to use in the New Year so you can enjoy greater bodybuilding progress.
As the New Year approaches it is again time to kick your bodybuilding progress into overdrive with a view to beginning 2010 in your best possible shape with the high energy levels and positive attitude pride in one's appearance can bring.

Found on Bodybuilding.com are a variety of training and nutrition programs, the likes of which are being constantly added to, and which will provide an informational foundation from which to build muscle and strip body fat in the fastest and most efficient manner possible.

However, while many programs are excellent in their description of what to do and how to do it and why, there are many tricks of the trade that can enhance and transform the effectiveness of any program to where it becomes more advanced, enabling even faster progression.

While a prescribed training routine including and stipulating three sets of 8 to 12 repetitions on the bench press followed by two incline dumbbell press/cable crossover supersets of 12 to 15 reps, for example, is great, it is what occurs during each set and on either side of it that really counts, the real nuts and bolts concerning the preparation, execution and maximization of all workout aspects.

The same thing applies to nutrition. Eating certain foods at certain times is a great start, but how do we incorporate supplementation to maximize the effectiveness of what we eat, and what are some of the often overlooked areas of sports nutrition that perhaps due to being too controversial are placed into the "too hard basket"?

Those who tend to progress fastest in bodybuilding - after the initial growth boost that accompanies one's early training efforts - are usually those who have experienced many years of trial and error, and have learned what works for them and discarded for good what doesn't.


This week, pro fitness model Diana Chaloux encourages you to start on your fitness goals as soon as possible. Don't wait until the new year to start exercising. Start right away to see great results!


Some people never learn and continue to make the same mistakes over and over thus presenting themselves as the living embodiment of the term insanity.

The smart ones find patterns within their training that signal when something is working and note these indicators of progress. This applies especially to nutrition where individual metabolic requirements dictate what certain people can eat, at what times and the quantity of each meal.

With these thoughts in mind and considering that attention to detail and all aspects of the training experience will trump blind faith every time, I will now outline several key tips that can be incorporated into any training and nutrition program to advance bodybuilding progress.


Use them accordingly and monitor how they work for you. And remember there is a major difference between simply lifting weights from point A to point B and using these weights to their best advantage through excellence in execution and attending to factors that ultimately govern each set.

While the training and nutrition tips featured below are hardly revolutionary in their design and function, those who complain of slow progress unsurprisingly frequently overlook them. It is worth repeating that a workout is not simply a process of entering a gym, hoisting massive weights and going home.